#edmund doesn't solve the problem of the stupid play being done by joining it
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itspileofgoodthings · 5 years ago
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Suddenly a new ambition is presented to [Macbeth]... and he realizes that nothing lies across his path to the Crown of Scotland except the sleeping body of Duncan. If he does that one cruel thing, he can be infinitely kind and happy. Here, I say, is the first and most formidable of the great actualities of Macbeth. You cannot do a mad thing in order to reach sanity. Macbeth's mad resolve is not a cure even for his own irresolution.
The Macbeths, G. K. Chesterton
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