Macbeth 3

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it is done, to see.
(Act 1:Scene 4:ln.55)

When Lady Macbeth heard of her husband's success and read the letter, we
almost immediately feel that a new source of power had appared in the
drama. Her words reflected a great knowledge of her husband and her
practical approach to problems as seen in the following two verses.

Glacis thou art, and Cowdor, and shalt be
What thou are promised. Yet do I fear thy nature.
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great;
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it. What though wouldst highly,
That wouldst though holily;wouldst not play false
And yet wouldst wrongly win. Thou'ldst have, great Glacis
That which cries"Thus though must do,"if though have it;
And that which rather thou dost fear to do
Than wishest ...

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Might be the be-all and the end-all here,
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
We'ld jump the life to come. But in these cases
We still have judgment here, that we but teach
Bloody instructions, which being taught, return
To plague the inventor..........................
(Act 1:Scene 7:ln 1)


This verse stressed Macbeth's fears of punishment. He cleared out that
he was prepared to suffer eternity if only this crime would go unpunished.
He recognized certain obstacles in killing the King, the first and most
important being was that the King was his guest. He also saw some dangers
of committing the crime ...

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