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다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Taking and enjoying is very serious playthings in life. When a person eagerly wants to take something, his or her quality of life depends on the ethical problem caused by how he or she takes it. It is a great task for man to manage to deal with the fulfillment of desire and the enjoyment of life after fulfilling the desire. Macbeth is the perfect example of showing how he takes crown and how he enjoys the royal life after he has taken it.
He has fulfilled his desire by way of killing because he cannot think of any other means to be a king except killing. He cannot endure the sense that he can get it by fate without stirring. We, however, see him hesitate and fall in agony till he does the deed. He has to show himself that he is deeply troubled by his moral sense. He has to convince himself that he is morally good by nature but to fulfill the fate given to him, he cannot but kill Duncan the king. We can see in Macbeth that he hesitates and withdraws the plan and finally is driven by his eager wife to do the deed and we get to know that his long soliloquies with fine reasoning of why he has to stop are just 'seems', for the act he finally chooses is killing. His moral confusion gets to be nothing but self-deception for action is more important and higher standard of judging the value of one's spirit than emotion and thoughts. Nevertheless, we like to be deceived by his vivid sense of agony and fear presented in his soliloquies because we too get the feeling that we can atone for the crime or the wrong deeds by long hesitation or deep agony. He is the aptest killer on the battlefield because he is honored as a brave man for his deed of killing, that is, he has got the justified cause there. In the deed of murdering Duncan, he finds no justified cause but the fulfillment of desire. So he hides himself in his inner self and is only to be controlled by his external drives he meets: witches and 'fiend-like' Lady Macbeth. We should not be deceived by his self-deception.
After Macbeth has taken what he desires, he uses his newly taken power only to keep his crown. The method of keeping his crown is the same as the one used in taking the crown, that is, killing. What he first does after he has become a king is to hire the murderers and murder Banquo because he threats Macbeth's promising future and then kills all the family of Macduff's and then visit witches to know his future. All the deeds are caused by his impotence of enjoying the present as a king. He continuously sticks to the worst result in the future because he cannot forget his deeds in the past. He has never thought of or is ignorant of using his royal power for good causes but has the vague hope of being a good king. So he is not entitled to be a king. He has the desire to take the crown only. Taking was his whole goal of life. That is one of the reasons that he is unable to enjoy his royal life once he has got his goal.
Macbeth is the man that eagerly has wanted to be a king and finally ends with mental impotence. This sense of impotence leads him to choose to become evil. Macbeth wearing his crown shows the example of the man with the sword of power without knowing what he is.