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Macbeth's Imagination
He scrutinizes if the manifestation’s enticement is a good or bad thing, but concludes that it cannot be bad because predictions came true. Because Macbeth is so credulous and unrestrained, "his imagination is excitable and intense, but narrow. That which stimulates it is, almost solely, that which thrills with sudden, startling, and often supernatural fear” (Leggatt n.pag). Macbeth is so easily convinced by the supernatural illusion of the witches that his imagination steers his determination. According to Harold Bloom’s writings on the play Macbeth, he indicates the witches “...place nothing in his mind that isn’t already there. And yet they undoubtedly influence his total yielding to his own ambitious imagination...they are the final impetus

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