This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 Excerpt: ...it is because she wishes to be something that she is not that she craves their help; it is because she feels and knows herself to be a woman that she calls upon them to unsex her. The terrific sublimity of her invocation to the murdering ministers, to "Fill her, from the crown to the toe, topfull Of direst cruelty," ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 Excerpt: ...it is because she wishes to be something that she is not that she craves their help; it is because she feels and knows herself to be a woman that she calls upon them to unsex her. The terrific sublimity of her invocation to the murdering ministers, to "Fill her, from the crown to the toe, topfull Of direst cruelty," which almost erects the hair and freezes the blood, but expresses the violence of her resolution against the tender impulses of which she is habitually conscious: it is a convulsive effort to brace and stay herself, lest some compunctious visitings should shake her fell purpose. With forced boldness of tongue and fancy she thus tries to school and steel herself into a firmness and fierceness of which she feels the want. In short, "bold are her words because her deeds are not." At all events, whether from overacting her real character or from overstraining her powers to act an assumed one, there can be no doubt that her energies break down beneath her undertaking: if it be her real character, then, as she never enacted it before, so she never attempts to enact it again. No sooner is the fatal deed performed than the access and passage of remorse are effectually and forever unstopped; no sooner is she fairly introduced amid the horrors of their manifold tragedy than she fails and faints away, and the woman which she had so fearfully disclaimed returns to torment and persecute and waste her into her grave. In the words of Coleridge, "she mistakes courage of fantasy for power to bear the consequences of actual guilt; and shames her husband with a superhuman audacity of thought and speech which she cannot support, but sinks in the season of remorse, and dies in suicidal agony." After the murder of the king Lady Macbeth o...
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