The Insufficiency of Virtue: Macbeth and the Natural OrderThe first scene-by-scene philosophical study of any Shakespeare play, this book demonstrates why Shakespeare's poetic writings still arouse and sustain serious inquiry and reflection. Using a combination of philosophical rigor, political insight, and textual thoroughness, Jan H. Blits delineates the competing forms of virtue within Macbeth--the courageous public virtue of warriors like Macbeth and the internal Christian virtue evoked by Duncan. This new interpretation of Macbeth explains crucial paradoxes overlooked by previous scholars and will serve as a model for future scholarship in the field. |
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Page 76
... hands will pull out his eyes : " What hands are here ? Ha ! they pluck out mine eyes " ( 2.2.58 ) . Having alienated his hand from his eye , he now finds that his hands are not his , but another's . Having separat- ed himself from his ...
... hands will pull out his eyes : " What hands are here ? Ha ! they pluck out mine eyes " ( 2.2.58 ) . Having alienated his hand from his eye , he now finds that his hands are not his , but another's . Having separat- ed himself from his ...
Page 113
... hand from his eye . He did not want to see or know what he was doing ( 1.4.50-53 ) . Here , by contrast , he invokes night not to conceal his hand from his eye , but rather to use its own bloody and invisible hand to de- stroy the very ...
... hand from his eye . He did not want to see or know what he was doing ( 1.4.50-53 ) . Here , by contrast , he invokes night not to conceal his hand from his eye , but rather to use its own bloody and invisible hand to de- stroy the very ...
Page 167
... hands , but , unlike the first sequence , it deals with the two crimes in which she had no hand . The blood on her hands is for crimes she did not actually perform . Where her first set of thoughts implicitly denies the sovereignty of ...
... hands , but , unlike the first sequence , it deals with the two crimes in which she had no hand . The blood on her hands is for crimes she did not actually perform . Where her first set of thoughts implicitly denies the sovereignty of ...
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