His use of poetic and dramatic means to create a unified aesthetic effect out of a multiplicity of vocal expressions and actions is recognized as a singular achievement, and his use of poetry within his plays to express the deepest levels of human motivation in individual, social, and universal situations is considered one of the greatest accomplishments in literary history. ... His "cursed thoughts- are like Mac Beth's "horrible imaginings- (I, iii, 38); he rejects them when he is rational and awake, but he despairs that when he falls asleep, he is a victim of them. ... The main theme...

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These demons in the guise of witches cannot read his inner-most thoughts, but from observing his facial expressions and body language, they surmise what passions drive him and what dark desires lie in wait. ... He recognizes that the acts of conscience which torture him are really expressions of that outraged natural law, which inevitably reduced him to his bare human existence. ... That is to say, there is still left necessarily some natural good in him; sin cannot completely deprive him of his rational nature, which is the root of his inescapable inclination to virtue. ...

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These demons in the guise of witches cannot read his inmost thoughts, but from observation of facial expression and other bodily manifestations they surmise with comparative accuracy what passions drive him and what dark desires await their fostering. ... He recognizes that the acts of conscience which torture him are really expressions of that outraged natural law, which inevitably reduced him as individual to the essentially human. ...

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