Macbeth As A Tragic Hero

Amongst all of Shakespeare's tragedies, Macbeth is the most inconsistent and fragmented. Like the mental state of the protagonist, the tragic structure of the play is in disarray from the very onset. According to Aristotle, all tragedies must follow a certain set of characteristics, and the most important of these is the presence of a tragic hero. This tragic hero must possess a tragic flaw, or hamartia, which is a good quality taken to such an extreme that it now exhibits immoral behaviour from the hero. He must also draw sympathy of his plight from the audience. Macbeth, although the protagonist, is not a tragic hero because he does not possess this hamartia. This significant absence of a flaw leads to his actions being without

     A Shakespearean tragic hero starts out as a noble person; a great exceptional being who stands out. A tragic hero has a tragic flaw of an exaggerated trait that leads to their downfall and eventually to death. William Shakespeare often made his main characters tragic heroes in his plays. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the role of the tragic hero is given to the main character: Macbeth. This is because he starts off as a loyal and well liked man in the beginning, but has a tragic flaw of ambition which ultimately leads to his downfall.

Just as the character spectrum flows from hero to villain, Macbeth also gradually makes his way down the line. In the very beginning of the play (before making his appearance), Macbeth’s fellow Scots and lords praise him for his loyalty and noble deeds. Here, it is made clear that the public initially views him as a heroic figure who is loyal to Scotland; “for brave Macbeth, (well he deserves that name)”(9) Admittedly, Macbeth does unseam a man “from the nave to th’ chops”(9), however this is considered an act of valor in the service of his country and his king. However, Macbeth’s loyalties soon become questionable, as he plots to and then commits the murder of his honored king, Duncan. At this point, the audience

In William shakespeare’s Macbeth,Macbeth is a classic example of a tragic hero in shakesperean work.Macbeth display the major characteristics of a tragic hero throughout the play until his tragic end.The play potrays Macbeth as a lost cause by showing how he fell from being a honest and just man who fought for whats right, to a cruel,superstitious,ambicious dictator.In william shakespreares Macbeth,Macbeth is a tragic hero because he compromises his honor and negates his moral values in order to obtain power which results with lots of tragic events such as character deaths leading to his tragic end.

in all purity. This is mainly due to the fact that he was willing to

A highly valued and positioned hero can kill innocent lives and still be a hero in the form of a tragic hero and people can still sympathize with him or her. An example of a tragic hero is Macbeth who satisfies every requirement of a tragic hero according to Aristotle. Macbeth is a five-act tragic play written by William Shakespeare about a power grab by Macbeth and the torture he faced as a result of his ambition (Bevington). Macbeth was a Scottish general nobleman who seized the throne of Scotland through the influence of the prophecy of the Three Witches and his ambition who killed and was a tyrant to keep the power that comes along with being king (Encyclopædia Britannica, “Macbeth”). Macbeth is a tragic hero according to the definition of Aristotle as he meets the criteria set forth by Aristotle. Macbeth was a hero of a high and valued position as he was the Thane of Cawdor and fought bravely in the battle in Act I. He had the tragic flaw of vaulting ambition, the prophecies of the Three Witches and his wife, Lady Macbeth manipulation on him to have him kill King Duncan. This resulted in him being king through killing King Duncan. The actions he took to keep his reign made him the victim of a “total reversal of fortune” or downfall until he was killed which provoked feelings such as that of pity and fear among the audience causing them to sympathize with him. Thus, Macbeth is a tragic hero since he was a king due to his tragic flaw of vaulting ambition and as a result

The Macbeth character in Macbeth by William Shakespeare can be played many ways. Macbeth 's relationship with other characters in the play and Aristotle 's theory of a tragedy are ways in which Macbeth is shown as a tragic hero I am going to explain to you how Macbeth is a true tragic hero.

The need for power consumes Macbeth as a person. In the beginning of the play, Macbeth is a soldier, awarded for his bravery and skillful fighting during a war. However, near the end, Macbeth became a murderous, sinful, selfish man. He sacrificed everything to his insatiable need for power over others. Macbeth is a tragedy. With a tragedy comes a tragic hero who has a tragic flaw. That hero is Macbeth and his tragic flaw is his ambition. His ambition leads to his demise.

Damn, I counted down the days like never before. Since Aileana had come back into mah life, it was harder than hell to be away from her. Duncan had been trying to keep me occupied with his crazy antics on our down time. It had helped some, but the bond was so strong that Aileana was always in mah head. My body was in agony wanting her. I could feel her thoughts, even all the way out here on the drilling platform. She still fought the pull her body and mind had with mine. I could feel her need for me. The Selkie magic of our joining was too strong for either of us to fight.

The story of Macbeth is a very powerful and noteworthy example of a classic tragedy. Throughout the play, the protagonist is taken through a series of events which all play a key part in the story. From his noble beginning, to his rise higher, and to his downfall,this play holds many aspects of a classic tragedy. This is because it follows many guidelines, such as the ones set by Aristotle. In addition to this, it maintains more general ones, such as having the required tragic hero.

A Tragic Hero is a common figure in many of Shakespeare’s works. A Tragic Hero is usually a figure of royalty, fame or greatness. This person is predominately good, but falls from prominence due to personality flaws that eventually lead to self-destruction.

The tragic hero has been a major storytelling tool in recent years that makes the audience relate to, respect, and feel sympathy for a character which is undone by the end of the story. But can this title be given to Macbeth, the titular hero of the Shakespeare play by the same name? Yes, absolutely- Shakespeare’s Macbeth follows this plot path in numerous ways. Throughout the play, we are introduced to Macbeth’s belovedness, the crushing of said established belovedness, and his own undoing.

    Every true Elizabethan Tragedy comes complete with a tragic hero.  The tragedy Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, has a perfect example of a tragic hero, otherwise known as Macbeth.  A tragic hero must be a man who is great and admirable in various ways.  He should be placed in society in such a way that everything he does affects all of the members of his society.  A tragic hero should at some point reach the top of Fortune’s Wheel, but land up at the bottom by the end of the tragedy due to the continual change of fate.  Macbeth fits the description of being a tragic hero, displaying his strengths, his weaknesses, his tragic flaw, and how influential outside influences are on him.

“The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this terrible discovery of his fundamental ignorance - he is not the measure of all commodity but the commodity measured and found wanting.” The words ‘tragic hero’ has undergone a deceptive and detrimental process, it goes from a favorable connotation to a repulsive connotation. A tragic hero makes “judgment errors” that are inescapable and it ultimately leads one to one’s own downfall. In the play Macbeth, the protagonist, Macbeth is seen as a tragic hero, who commences as an ethical and noble hero, but as his dark and powerful ambition unleashed, it consumed him into perpetrating ruthless acts, which led him to his own doom. Macbeth is a tragic hero because when his power and social stratification is threatened by others, it forces him to go to extreme measures in order to sustain his solidarity. As well as, tragic heroes tend to be doomed to make fatal judgments. To further exemplify the characteristics of a tragic hero is that Macbeth is responsible for his own fate and he chooses to fight honorably to reconcile himself.

William Shakespeare wrote many plays and poems, but one of his famous plays were Macbeth; during the Elizabethan Age, Shakespeare prevailed through this age by producing extraordinary pieces of literary work that are still being taught today. Shakespeare originally wrote Macbeth to be a tragedy; Macbeth was a once noble man; which became more brutal with each kill he made. It started with his wife, Lady Macbeth, deigning him into murdering King Duncan; however, she did not know that her actions would lead him to turning into a cold-blooded murderer. As for Macbeth, he stereotypically is the tragic hero that will always lead him to an unhappy and miserable end. Even though Macbeth, he displays characteristics of a tragic hero; however, Lady Macbeth does not share the traits and cannot be a tragic heroine.