Sorosis . nature is in sympathy andsupplies some apt figures. It gives a fitting background to theweird sisters—bubbles of earth. It is rough, rugged, and bad weather prevail. The heavens are troubled,and in the animal world there are strange happenings. Onaccount of this correspondence between the plot and the phys-ical world, many of the details are left to the readers imagina-tion. Nature, a silent- artist, gives those little necessarytouches which complete the picture. So the poet writes in aneasy, simple style, uninterrupted by the thought that the de-tails as given may be mis
Sorosis . nature is in sympathy andsupplies some apt figures. It gives a fitting background to theweird sisters—bubbles of earth. It is rough, rugged, and bad weather prevail. The heavens are troubled,and in the animal world there are strange happenings. Onaccount of this correspondence between the plot and the phys-ical world, many of the details are left to the readers imagina-tion. Nature, a silent- artist, gives those little necessarytouches which complete the picture. So the poet writes in aneasy, simple style, uninterrupted by the thought that the de-tails as given may be misleading. A drama, having such nicety in regard to details,will not be lacking in technic. It finds its incentivein the appearance of the witches to Macbeth, its cli-max in Banquos murder, its catastrophe in Macbeths is rapid, the simplicity makes-a swift culminationpossible. The hero is at the opening a free agent, he chooseshis own course of action; and his choice and success in it mark. 12 MACBETH. the ascent; his failures and retribution the descent. Through-out the whole runs the thread of selfish ambition, stifling ofconscience, and the yielding to evil. From the first part welearn to know Macbeths character, for the last half is largelytaken up with the opposing party. One does not feel satisfiedwith the comparatively small space given there to actions have been followed so closely in the ascent, thatwe do not expect this silence in the descent. But he hadworked so hard and successfully in his sin, that the avengingpowers must put forth much labor; and in the end they haveprepared a just reward for Macbeth. His wife succumbing tothe pangs of conscience, increases his despair; he sees that theweird sisters have betrayed him ; his honor, reputation, andfriends are gone; his ambition has won only curses. Yet hisindomitable pride leads him to a soldiers death rather than tothe humiliation of a prisoner of war. His action has not onlyblackened hi
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