Kate: If Macbeth aspires to replace the king, is the aspiration only
emotional? His intellect informs him of potential benefits of his
succeeding, his emotion spurs him to tragedy.
Geoff C
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From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: Enough "taste
In a message dated 12/23/08 7:33:27 PM, [email protected] writes:
I'm not sure one can separate the intellectual from the emotional
or
the conscious from the unconscious. They all are functioning together
every
moment in our normal lives (if unaffected by severe illness, etc.).
You didn't used to be able to. A lot of those tragedies had both the
emotional and the intellectual faculties of the hero engaged in his
downfall-one
faculty would aid and abet the other and mistakes were made. Look at
Macbeth.
Kate Sullivan
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