I believe this is what he means...if he meant you had to do it in your real life and as part of your real identity, then he WOULD be a polemicist or something even more extreme/elevated/controlling.Wosbald wrote: one simply can't honestly reject the Necessity of Freedom in regard to his story?
That's part of the problem with some re-imaginings/re-bootings/re-interpretations of many, many works. It is one thing to JUST do those things...but when the claim is made of a "truer" version, things can get messy.
It's one thing to, as a reader/actor/audience/director for MacBeth to analyze/critique whether he woulda/shoulda/mighta reacted differently to the witches, to incorporate that doubt and even build new/different things from those.
But to reject/deny the necessity [internal to the character] for what he did do...and, up a level, deny the necessity for the story that he do such, and up another level, deny the meaning of the play based on those necessities...that's not working with the piece, that is to exit the world.
[[[there are, BTW, some folk around here who firmly believe, and have argued strongly, that SRD DIDN't effectively communicate/execute his intentions/integrate consistently the "necessity of freedom."]]]