The concrete dangers of abstract illusions in macbeth

The Concrete Dangers of Abstract Illusion Man is in control of world, and consequently of his existence. Since the effervescence of human greatness created by the Renaissance, the superiority of man has been continually accentuated through our culture. However, there still remains the domain of abstract concepts, which cannot be mastered, or even grasped entirely by the most profound member of human civilization. In the realm of these abstract concepts, William Shakespeare had already incorporated …

…these visions constantly take the attributes of the "equivocator" which leads the play, and thus are false without being completely untrue. It is the confrontation between this abstract complexity and the basic demands of society that creates the danger of illusion. However bizarre, obscure and true the multiple foils of illusion appear to be, this same undefined force creates clear, perceptible, and annihilating effects on the human civilization supposedly in control of its intricate existence.