Macbeth Tragic Hero

     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.

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.

Macbeth: The Foul Hero and Fair Villain Every great Elizabethan Tragedy comes with a true tragic hero. The tragic play Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare has a great example of a tragic hero, Macbeth. A tragic hero is someone with heroic qualities, someone that is destined for greatness, but brings about his own downfall by a choice that he made. Macbeth shows that he is a tragic hero since he is overly ambitious which drives to desire to be King, and it leads to his downfall because his ambition has no bounds, so he does not know when or where to stop.

In Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, Macbeth represents a tragic hero through his inability to be selfless. By definition, a tragic hero is a literary character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his own destruction. Macbeth creates an unavoidable downfall for himself through his crave for success and his willingness to do what is needed to obtain success. Many contributive factors are responsible for Macbeth’s inevitable downfall.

The Tragic Hero, Macbeth “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare is a tragedy play written in 1606. A tragic hero is a protagonist of noble birth, who brings about his own downfall by character flaw. A tragic flaw is a literary term that refers to a personality trait of a main character that ruins his or her nobility. In the play, Macbeth is a tragic hero because he is of noble birth, has heroic qualities and loyalty to his country and brings about his own downfall through his dual nature of being overly ambitious but weak minded.

They tell him his predictions, that he will be Thane of Cawdor and King of Scotland, but Macbeth, not understanding how these words could be true, demands that the witches stay and “tell [him] more” (I.iii.73). Macbeth wants more information about how powerful he will become. He commands them to tell him where they learned these strange upcoming events and when he will obtain these honorable titles. After Macbeth learns of his prophecies, Lady Macbeth receives a letter from her husband stating that when he tried desperately to question the witches further, they vanished into thin air. It stated in the letter that, while he stood spellbound, messengers from the King arrived and greeted him as the Thane of Cawdor.

Macbeth was a hero, that allowed his fatal flaws of greed and ambition to control him, but if the witches had not told Macbeth his “fate” then he would not have gone down such a dark path. In the Beginning, Macbeth was a good man, wanting to help his king and country. He,”...disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel,...carved out his passage till he faced the slave” (Shakespeare 9). This says that, Macbeth puts a stop to a rebellion which allowed peace and justice to prevail. Then, Macbeth allowed his greed and ambition to control him. “The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down or else o’erleap, for in my way it lies” (Shakespeare 29). Macbeth expressed that he must accept his place or get rid of the obstacle

The appearance of a tragic hero is not rare when it comes to Shakespeare’s entirety. Macbeth is an excellent illustration of a Shakespearean tragic hero. There are multiple aspects that subsidize why we give Macbeth the title of a tragic hero. A tragic hero is a character who is of a noble background and is an overall good person but suffers from some sort of issue because of a fault in their personality. By the end of the play, the Shakespearean tragic hero usually will lose their life so it will bring out the goodness of what the play can be restored.

The term ‘tragic hero’ comes up in media reports and in daily conversations, but people forget the true meaning of the word and what truly characterizes someone as a tragic hero. In Macbeth, written by world famous playwright, William Shakespeare, Macbeth exemplifies the term tragic hero as he fits all the criteria set out by literary critics. Initially, he is a hero who fights in solidarity with his countrymen; he possesses tragic flaws that lead him from happiness to misery, and his ignorance of the truth ultimately leads others to pity and fear him.

The Tragedy of Macbeth opens in a desert place with thunder and lightning and three Witches who are anticipating their meeting with Macbeth, "There to meet with Macbeth." Macbeth is greeted by the witches with "hail to thee, thane of Glamis," "thane of Cawdor," and "thou shalt be king hereafter!" When Ross and Angus arrive with news of Duncan's reward ("He bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor"), it is logical for Macbeth to assume that all of the weird sisters' prophecies will come true.

Macbeth’s gullible nature is one of his major flaws that leads to his downfall. Like most people Macbeth does not initially believe the witches, it sounds too peculiar. However, in a split second Ross delivers “He ( Duncan) bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor.In which addition, hail, most worthy thane!”(ACT 1 SCENE III). Macbeth is instantly convinced as this was one of the prophecies, he then excitedly goes to tell his beloved wife. One of the witches’ apparitions states he will be king someday, and the lovely vengeful Lady macbeth decides to take matters into her own hands ; she wants to murder Duncan. Macbeth finds the woman to be a crazy

In the play Macbeth, Shakespeare makes the protagonist a tragic hero. Macbeth is a perfect example of a tragic hero because he has a character flaw that influences his actions. Macbeth’s character flaw is that he is easily persuaded and he lets his ambition get the best of him. “Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem’st the ornament of life And live a coward in thine own esteem Letting ‘I dare not’ and ‘I would’, Like the poor cat i’ th’ adage” (Shakespeare, 19). Once he is persuaded to kill by his wife, he lets nothing stand in his way. Once he killed the kill to achieve his goals, he ended up losing everything he was working to achieve when he was killed by Macduff.

A tragic hero can be described as a character obtaining heroic qualities that is, at the same time, destined for their own downfall. Unfortunately, Macbeth is an example of a character that has this title. In Shakespeare’s time during the writing of the play was the reign of King James of England, and the play ‘Macbeth’ reflects on Shakespeare’s own relationship with this king. Someone of great honour, respect and nobility often times is bound to have some sort of flaw to them, and in the case of Macbeth, a tragic flaw that is responsible for the dark pathway to absolute self-destruction and utter madness. In the play

His ambiguous feelings of ambition and doubt about his fate as king are also part of the theme of equivocation. One can consider Macbeth as a person driven by evil yet is not strong enough to trample feelings of guilt and doubt After the first two prophecies became true when he was titled Thane of Glamis then Thane of Cawdor, Macbeth thinks that the prophecies are true, thus making him impatient to become King of Scotland. Macbeth’s growing desire for power and enrichment eventually ends up in him murdering Duncan and his company when they are in Macbeth’s castle. In Act 4, the apparitions revealed by the witches’ convince Macbeth that no one can defeat him, which makes him even more confident about his security. Macbeth takes the witches’ prophecies to his own liking and purposes, ignoring their double and unfortunate meanings.

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.