Macbeth (Vol. 44) | Robert G. Hunter (essay date 1976)
Robert G. Hunter (essay date 1976)
SOURCE: "Macbeth" in Shakespeare and the Mystery of God's Judgments, The University of Georgia Press, 1976, pp. 159-82.
[In the essay below, Hunter discusses the human and supernatural origins of evil both in the play and in the mind of its protagonist.]
Macduffe was from his Mothers womb Untimely ript.
So much of Macbeth is concentrated in this "horrid image" that a tracing of all its metaphoric connections would result in an essay on the whole play. Macbeth, for example, first enters our consciousness when the bleeding captain describes how he ripped the life from merciless Macdonwald by unseaming him from the nave to the chops. To list all the torn bodies that fill the space between that image and the play's end would be almost as tedious as it was for Macbeth to wade through the resulting blood. Fewer and more to our point are the instances of the more specific images of a...
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