The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-08-08

frame oil things 90 much delotnh thai
the dead walk agAin,-eyen il the mater
iAl world, -IlYiag meu,-and the imma-
terial world.-ths dead,-both suffer
(are dlsturbed) by such act.
In the banquet scSns, alter the final
disappearanee Of the ghost, Macbeth ex-
claims
And overcome uI ike sum meI's cloud,
Without our special SundoF'"
Whs. does things "reler to! The ghost
Of Banquo may 30 called thing but not
thipgs; It is one Of the things which
classed together are In MGcbeth's mind,
another OF these being DunCan's shadow,
Again 10 the following lines
"Macbsth.- %. Yop make me strange
Even 70 the disposition that / owe,
when now thiak you can behold such FighL,
Ard Gesp thu natural ruby Of your checks
| when mine ls blaheh'd with fear"
"Highs," like "things," Is plural and
refers TO appearances q which BauquOa
ghustly shadow Ia one. What more pAtur.
ally occurs 10 the mind Of the reader to
make up this plural than Duncau'a
gGost! aH.
In the 9th act, hearing the sound Of
womens cries upon the death Of his wife,
the haunted king, now nearly confronted
with his fate, cries outs
IT have llmos, forgot the tsIte Of fslrE
/ Tue tins has been, my ssnses would have cooled
To hear night shrek; and my fell ot hair
/ Would al dismal treatise rouse and bhE
As life Wef init kIVs typpdguA EtA AOFrVrI,
DlrenCGI familiar TO my slSlshterouS thoughts,
/ Cannot Onea start mA,h-HV,9.
II We understand Macbeth here to refer
To his haunting by the ghost Of Duncan,
Banauo and others Of his victims, " have
supp'd full with horrors" has definite and
thrilling meaning.
Ihaye referred to the conduct oil Lady
Ma cbeth. During the banquet scene in
which Bauquos dreadful image, with
It's new form Of horror, drives from the
kings mind all calculation Of diplomacy,
all sell government, urging him To
paroxySms Of terror and perturbation
HE vile, who was yet ignorant Of Ban
quo's murder, expresses no curiosity
only anxiety to allay the suspicious his
conduct would excite among their guests
and with this anxiety masculine con-
tempt Of her husbands weakness and un'
manly fear. After the company have de.
parted, scared from the least by the
strange terror OF their host, when Lady
Macbeth Ia alone with her husband, does
sho ask him what be has seen? Does she
express the least curiosity to know what
has disturbed this naturally resolute
nau7 No; she has no question TO ask
concerning 1t, no euriosity-and why !
Simply because it is "a thing Of custom
as she has already told her guess-"a
strange iniHnity," as Macbeth himself
describes il. What can this "thing oil
custom" this "in6rmity" bs, that thus
drives bold man 70 such frantic excess
Of terrotY That tits not what his wife
believes It, we know; but does not her
mistake enable US to obtain u glimpse al
the ".hipg OF custom that Is wont to
torment the murder.stAiued king2
When, In the frst scene OF the second
act, Macbeth Ia proceeding to King Dan.
cans chamber with the intent OF murder
in bis heart, he sees spectral dagger
which marshals him the way; from his
soIiloquy Of surprise upon that occasion
| II ID evident that he 10 unfamiliar with
such immateriAl appearances, and be
asks himself If tits not
"a false creation,
i Proceeding from the he1t-OppreaIed brain
he could not have saked such question OIL
his evidently Mtonished mind II At that
time be had been familiar with spectres
hence we may conclude that his haunting
had there It's beginning. II this was so
and II the "thing of custom" was born OIL
the terrible circumstances Of King Dun
cans murder, what shape but Duncan't
would come TO him? What shadow &C
likely 10 arise before the terrified
murderer rs that OF his slaughtered
kIuSman, king, benefActor, and friend
| All the circumstances Of his peculiar
mental condition, and all the hints con-
4 tanned in his and his Wifss words, point &c
directly 10 this conclusion that 1t is forced
upon our beliefs, perhaps as surely as Y
scenes had been drawn presenting the ole
kings ghost,
Lady Macbeth, believing that her hus
| band has seen this "thing Of custom" hai
no cause Of curiosity, and expresses none
from which We must infer that scenes, ex'
Actly similar to this Of the bAnquetinl
room, have been OF such common occur
renee, that her husbands conduct has
become chronic 'inirmity." Beholdlnl
Banouo's ghost confronting him with
bleeding wounds, and thrilling his sou
with supernatural horror, the though
I flashes on Macbeth terrified Imagination
that no effort Of his can keep away TIL
dfead visitor that, like the spectre o
Duncan, will haunt him continually and
90 closely as thus literally 10 push hin
from, his banquet seat. Thus amid b.
horror comes up the remembrance Of ht
experience with the spectre OF the king
which we may imagine in this wise
After Dunean'S murder his body va
doubtless laid in state until suitable
ceremonies could be prepared Tor roye
funeral, alter which his remains Wous'
be placed In a charnel.houle, probably
. church vault, prior 10 removal to
'srAs sacred StorGhouIs Of his PreasceIor"
From this charnel.house came forth hi
ghost to torment the unhappy murderer
who perhaps INDUCED the hope that Whe
} | the body should be laid in It's final restin
place, lis grave In the lonely island 0
( lopa, that grave would hold u fast an
. lie spectre no more torment him. Pei
, hAps under pretenee Of greater honour Z
+ the dead monarch, he piled masSiy'
I | masonry upon this grave In the val
hope that its solid inettiA might eonhn
l forever in narrow walls Of stone th
thin and terrible shadow that he teareC
8 Can We picture the disappointment 40
{ despair that filled the troubled heart {
Macbeth, robbing his crown and klngl