MACBETH.
A Passion-Drama.
Scheme of Actions.
| { | Main Character Action: Rise and Fall of Macbeth. | |
| Character Counter-Action: Lady Macbeth. | ||
| { | Character Sub-Action: covering and involved in the Rise:Banquo. | |
| Character Sub-Action: covering and involving the Fall: Macduff. [Pages [129], [142].] | ||
Enveloping Supernatural Action: The Witches.
Economy.
Parallelism: Triple form of Nemesis, Irony and Oracular Action extending to the Main Action, to its parts the Rise and Fall separately, and through to the Enveloping Action.
Contrast as a bond between the Main and Counter-Action.
Balance: the Rise by the Fall, the Sub-Action to the Rise by the Sub-Action to the Fall. [Page [276].]
Movement.
Passion Movement, with Similar Motion between all.
Turning-points.
Centre of Plot: Change from unbroken success to unbroken failure: iii. iii. 18. [Page [127].]
Catastrophe: Divided:
First Shock of Nemesis; Appearance of Banquo's Ghost: iii. iv.
Final Accumulation of Nemesis: Revelation of Macduff's birth: v. viii. 12.