Macbeth

MACBETH Macbeth is presented as a mature man of definitely established character, successful in certain fields of activity and enjoying an enviable reputation. We must not conclude, there, that all his choices and actions are predictable. Macbeth's character, like any other man's at a given moment, is what is being made out of potentialities plus environment. No one, not even Macbeth himself, can know all his excessive self-love whose actions are discovered to be - …

…richer that at the beginning. This dramatic personality in its manifold stages of incentive is an artistic creation. In essence Macbeth, like all other men, is inevitably bound to his humanity. The reason of order, as we have seen, determines his inescapable relationship to the natural and eternal law, compels inclination toward his proper act and end but provides him with a will capable of free choice, and obliges his perception of good and evil.