From then on, after the murder of Duncan, Macbeth entered into a life of evil. ... Macbeth wanted to ensure that he would reach his ambition without problems. ... For example, his fighting in Duncan's service is magnificent and courageous, and his evident joy in it is traceable in art to the natural pleasure which accompanies the explosive expenditure of prodigious physical energy and the euphoria which follows. ... Indeed his imagination and passions are so vivid under this evil impulse from without that "nothing is but what is not"; and his reason is so impeded that he judges, "These ...

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