fattraction is it wonderful poetry. Scarcely a word is wasted, and vivid imagestumble after each other in a stream of color and ideas. (Ross 43)Shakespeare put great thought into what he wanted to write and his feelings expressedthemselves through the stylistic devices of tone, characterization, and symbolism.Shakespeare’s characterization of Macbeth exonerates the impact he had on the play. Thetone in Macbeth remains sinister and depressing throughout the play. Symbolism, on the otherhand, kept the tragedy in tact, and if understood, revealed the whole play in the very beginning ofher pages.The character of Macbeth profoundly effects the play, by means of transpiring his actionsto hurt others. If looking at the characteristics of good and evil, it makes the reader wonder whatmakes a person good or evil. Evil is not born into people, but it is the only option they haveleft.Three features we have seen stand out clear in the general conception of Macbeth. There is his eminently practical nature, which is the key to the whole. And the absence in him of the inner life adds two special features: one is hishelplessness under suspense, the other is the activity of his imagination with itssusceptibility to supernatural terrors...His practical power develops as capacity forcrime...his mind is as scorpions; it is tortured in restless ecstasy. Suspense hasundermined his judgment and brought on him the gambler’s fever...The thirdfeature in Macbeth is the quickening of his sensitiveness to the supernatural sideby side with the deadening of his conscience...In the reaction from the murder ofBanquo the supernatural appearance-which no eye sees but his own-appears morereal to him than the real life around him. And from this point he seeks the supernatural, forces it to disclose its terrors, and thrusts himself into an agonizedvision of generations that are to witness the triumph of his foes. (Moulton 335-337)Moulton knows what he is...
