Macbeth and Washizu: the Tragic Heroes

When you finish reading Shakespeare’s Macbeth, you feel bad for the Macbeth for what he has become. Macbeth was a man with a great future ruined by outside sources. Throughout the play Macbeth changed from a noble soldier and turned into a memory of his past self. Every moral that Macbeth had at the beginning of the play changed in his rise and fall as a king. He was a great military leader but when he was promised the crown by the witches, and his demanding wife pushed him to the edge he began to make poor decisions. You can certainly feel sympathy for Macbeth based upon how he is treated throughout the play by other characters.

     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 is slain as a tyrant and Lady Macbeth takes her own life. Shakespeare does not give either character the opportunity to enjoy what they had achieved, suggesting that it is more satisfying to achieve your goals fairly than to achieve them through corruption.

Initially, Macbeth is viewed as a brave and loyal soldier, with Duncan praising him by expressing that “More is thy due than more than all can pay” (1.4.21). At this point, he has not been influenced by the three witches. Yet, by Duncan implying his importance, Macbeth gains a sense of self-worth and this arouses power within. His clear desire to be titled Thane of Cawdor while then having a growing temptation to commit regicide clearly demonstrate the early stages of his corruption and forms a basis for utilizing illegitimate power.

This is the fatal flaw for both of our tragic heroes, Macbeth and Washizu. At the beginning of “The Tragedy of Macbeth”Macbeth, three witches plant the seed of his demise. Macbeth is told that he will one day become the Thane of Cawdor and then rise to the Throne. Banquo is then told that his children will one day have the throne following Macbeth’s reign. Washizu is given a similar prophecy by the forest spirit. He is to become the master of the North Castle and then rise to the throne as well. Miki is also told the same prophecy for his children that Banquo is told for his. Because of this, Macbeth is now forced to think of the possibility of being king. On his way to meet the king, Macbeth is made Thane of Cawdor, fulfilling the first part of the witches’ prophecy. Macbeth cannot help but wonder about the prophecy told to him by the witches. Washizu wonders about the same possibilities after becoming lord of the North Castle. Both characters confide in their wives who only help to spur on their ambition. Though both deny their ambitions for the throne, Washizu seems to have more conviction in his loyalty for the king. Both wives implore their husbands to kill the king is visiting at their respective castles. At first this creates a moral dilemma for our tragic heroes, but ultimately ambition wins out as each one kills their king to rise to the throne. Afterwards, our main characters show some significant differences.

Humans typically tend to be greedy and take everything for thierself, but Macbeth goes above and beyond to make sure his heart’s desires are fulfilled. Power changes him into a pretentious person and forms a need for more jurisdiction that is unquenchable. The neverending loop of murder that Macbeth gets trapped in causes his excessive pride and ambition to grow leading him to his downfall. Macbeth is a tragic hero because he widley models a tragic flaw of ambition and he displays a large amount of excessive pride, causing him to ultimately become

A tragic hero is someone whos fatal flaw, combined with other external factors, bring about ones demise, which is demonstrated by Macbeth in Shakespeares play Macbeth. Macbeth is portrayed as a courageous, brave and noble man who was haunted by superstition and an overpowering ambition. Factors that contributed to the degeneration of Macbeth include the prophecies told to him by the witches, the influence and manipulation of his wife, Lady Macbeth, and finally, Macbeths deep driven intent to become king. Although seen as a daring and valiant hero at the beginning of the play, Macbeths evil desires and long time ambition causes his downfall. Even though Macbeth seems like a malevolent and murderous tyrant towards the end of the play, he

Macbeth clearly demonstrates his inner conflicts within the first act. He begins to have frightening thoughts of killing King Duncan for his own power, and Macbeth’s awareness of these immoral thoughts remains throughout the entire play. Now, although Macbeth has the ability to perceive what is morally logical, he does not always follow through. After Macbeth learns of the prophecy, he grows eager to fulfill these great revelations; being the flawed creature that he is, Macbeth had a steadily increasing measure of greed and angst that grew with each success. After a certain point, Macbeth had learned to ignore the guilt that nearly gnawed him raw after such heinous crimes. Only then did the greed and natural instinct to success really take hold of Macbeth’s mind.

Macbeth is a self-made man, and he is noble and honorable. He is a warrior, a Thane, and is respected. However this is not what makes a man a hero. A hero is a person who puts others needs before him or herself. On the other hand, a tragic hero is a person who desires what he or she wants, not what is best for others. For Macbeth, it was easy fighting for the king, commanding his friends and beloved

The main reason people show a disconnect to Macbeth’s character is his paranoia. Once Macbeth started killing he couldn't stop, and this can be famously seen with him killing Banquo. This is seen in his immense paranoia because he wants to be king and he wants to be enough for his family. Macbeth's paranoia also is shown in his killing of Lady Macduff and her kids. Shakespeare uses this to show the absolute viciousness of Macbeth’s fear. This is manty people can't relate to because they have self control.

Macbeth’s major flaws are his ambition and impressionability. Due to their flaws, a Tragic Hero’s actions are often atrocious and cause them to battle with their conscience after their desires have been accomplished. These battles with their conscience evoke empathy from the audience. A Shakespearean Tragic Hero will always lose their life in the end of the play as a result of re-establishment of what is good in the play. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the title

Macbeth is a complex and well developed character, while there are several interesting characters in the play, Macbeth is by far the most interesting. He is a tragic hero who experiences a slow and painful mental decline which is expressed in such a way that the audience is mesmerised.

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.

Macbeth is a very complex character whom reflects man's thirst for power through the drastic changes of his personality; thus being one of the slightest reasons in which make this intriguing character, greatest of all Shakespearean’s well-known works.