ABSTRACT
Lady Macbeth is the one who now displays firmness of purpose. So cried Lady Macbeth and wandered in the disconsolate night. Temptation enacts a sinister assault on the present, although, since Macbeth himself is an accomplice of the temptation, he is assaulting his own soul in this temptation. As the world of Macbeth is one of will to power, leading to tyranny, and marked by a karma which produces the self-evisceration of power, so too one wonders about the ethos of certain postmodernisms. The evil done is sticky, the karma a doom not to be undone in the relentless course of equivocal time. The karma of the equivocal is there in that damned spot of sticky evil. Sticky evil for Macbeth is not a damned spot on his hands, as it will be with Lady Macbeth, but is in the sticking in his throat of the 'Amen'.
