The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-03

he slept 1 had done it," But my
colleague has already discussed that,
so l will not dwell on it.
1T seems that Lady Macbeth gave
the screws that were to keep her
courage at the sticking place Just
one turn too many, and the strings
broke. What is the rising action in
Macbeth's strength is the falling one
in hers. His goodness decreases,
we all know, but as much as the
goodness decreases just that much
does his manly courage increase.
Lady Macbeth's matter of fact, I'M
imaginative, strong intellect was her
own undoing. 1t is deeds, not
| thoughts, that kindle the furies in
her soul. And because these work.
lngs of guilt do not take on the form
OF ghostly sights they consume all
the more fatally within. How per-
tectly her senses are dominated by
conscience is shown in Here's the
smell of blood still" Not so with
Macbeth. True he has fears some
times, but only once does he give
expression to them in the company
OF others when he sees Banuuo's
ghost. And | suspect if any of us
had seen that ghost we would have
said things, too. Macbeth had so
steeled himself to bear up that when
the news of Lady Macbeth's death
comes to him he doesn't give Way to
grleVlng for his loved one, but it only
draws from him some deeply solemn
ana soothing tones. How much man
l1er and stronger than to break down
and weep, especially when her death
came at such critical time for him.
But it shows how he had fortified
himself, and how, after he had once
begun, he would do anything to carry
the affair out successfully. He grew
stronger from the time he committed
the deed; the strength increased
through all the following scenes, and
from a supreme effort was at it's
height in his last few moments.
And now we come to the consid-
GRAFTON of their deaths. Did Lady
Macbeth kill herself. What is said
OF her death, and what we know of
her leads to the conclusion that she
did. Shakespeare never says any
thing aimlessly, and when he puts
these words into Malcom's mouth,
who, as it's thought, by self and
violent hands took off her life" I
think it is to convey a strong i'm
preston that she did take her life.
Lady Macbeth, as l imagine her, was
a proud, high-strung woman, look
! ing haughtily down on everybody as
her inferior. She was one who rath-
er endure most anything than to be
thWarted in any purpose. Could
such a one as she stand the exposure
that she knew was coming? Could
she bear to know that her name was
in everyone's mouth; that she was
! being gibed, Knocked and spoken of
contemporary by those whom she
had always looked down on? No, a
thousand times, no! She would
sooner die than for such a fate to
/ befall her. She was more than ready
to Jump the present life and the life
to come in order to escape such a
| lot.
Honorable judges, don't you think
that under the circumstances it
would require much more moral
courage to stay in the world and
stand what was to Lady Macbeth the
most awful punishment than to end
1t all and escape the consequences
of her crime by a stroke of a dag
ger?
Lady Macbeth died with the har-
ness, but what a different make of
harness from that of her husbands
Harnessed in all her crime, in all
her strength of mind, in all her am
blt1on, so that she could in no way
except toward the yawning portal
of death. Macbeth! He is manly
courage personified as the curtain
goes down on the last act of his life
How | would like to have seen his
face as he said: BLOW wind! Come
wrack! At least We'll die with the
harness on our back" his eyes spark
ling with a soldiers eagerness for
the end; his face aglow with courage
ready to fight it out and if van
quished to suffer the consequences
like a man.
| Now, Mr.. Judges, considering all
| these things, weighing the circum-
stances under which everything was
done, don't you think that Macbeth
has a stronger character than Lady
Macbeth?
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