That essay about this play was influenced by the events that its author later described in "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts."
An essay about this play defends its title character's contradictions by saying that he "no more loses his identity of character in the fluctuations of fortune or the storm of passions than [he] in himself would have lost the identity of his person." That essay about this play ends by contrasting its title character with Richard III, claims that this play "moves upon the verge of an abyss," and was written by William Hazlitt. Another essay about this play includes a lengthy footnote attacking the use of the construction "sympathy for," and a digression using the example of painting in linear perspective to exhort the reader not to let understanding get in the way of comprehension. The title phenomenon of that essay about this play is compared to the sigh of a woman recovering from a faint, since both are (*) signals that bracket off unnatural occurrences. That essay about this play was influenced by the events that its author later described in "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts." Thomas De Quincey wrote about "The Knocking at the Gate in"Â— for 10 pointsÂ—what Shakespeare tragedy in which three witches prophecy to a Scottish king?
An essay about this play defends its title character's contradictions by saying that he "no more loses his identity of character in the fluctuations of fortune or the storm of passions than [he] in himself would have lost the identity of his person.
The Tragedy of Macbeth