Butcher's Chapter 9: Plot and Character.
The emotions must harden into will and the will express itself in deed.
Hamlet: Events are then brought about, not by the free energy of will, but by acts of arrested volition, by forces such as operate in the world of dreamland.
Macbeth: strong, dominant, militant frame of mind. Nothing is more wonderful than the resistless impulse, the magnificent energy of will with which a Macbeth or Richard III goes to meet his doom.
The fate that overtakes the hero is no alien thing, but his own self recoiling upon him for good or evil.
I'm pro reality, because lack of reality killed Jack. That puts me clearly on the side of Reason. My Reason failed to protect Jack, but that is secondary. Primary, her irrationality, killed Jack.
The test of a man's sanity is the relation in which his mind stands to the universal. Denise's action defied the universal.
Do I sound like Hamlet?
the end is the thing
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