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Sin And Macbeth

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Day
16
Month
March
Year
1894
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Public Domain
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The lecture Monday evening in the Inland League course by Prof. W. D. McClintock, of Chicago University, on "The National History of Sin as Typified in Macbeth,"was a philosophical study of the subject in question. Mr. McClintock is a young man and a clear and iluent speaker. He began his address by describing in full the environments of Macbeth and shovved how all the circumstances were conducive to his conduct. The circumstances preliminary to Macbeth's temptaion, his character, situation and the witches symbolical of fate were next discussed. Macbeth is brave, Ditious, cruel, of a practical temper, a politician, but not a keen philosopher as Hamlet. The speaker traced very closely the origin of the tempfation and its development in Macbeth's mind until he yielded to the desire. The speaker depicted very vividly the condition of Macbeth's mind as he is led up to the deed itself. Macbeth trusts to fate, he fears the circumstances, he has but a halfhearted determination to proceed. At this point Lady Macbeth appears. She is introduced to age Macbeth, her function is to precipĂ­tate the deed. Macbeth has the ambition but lacks the determination and this supplied by Lady Macbeth, whose will is as strong as her ambition and vvho knows all his weaknesses. It is in all cases those who know our weakness that most easily make us sin. After the deed is committed there are three roads whicii the criminal may take - repentance, moral decay or moral hardness. Macbeth takes the latter and continĂșes in crime to secure himself until driven to bay and slain.

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