Macbeth: A Tragic Hero

Part I of Essay
A tragic hero, according to Aristotle, is a man neither villainous nor exceptionally virtuous who moves from happiness to misery through frailty or some error in judgement. In the play Macbeth written by William Shakespeare, the protagonist Macbeth, is a tragic hero. Macbe ....

Part II of Essay
.... prophecies. Lady Macbeth and the witches exploited Macbeth’s flaw, his flaw of being easily influenced. A true villain does not let others bring out the evil in them. They bring it out themselves. Macbeth was a man plagued by his own bad decisions. When Macbeth killed his king, he sealed his own fate. Macbeth knew that that would haunt him for the rest of his life. When Macbeth committed murder, he crossed over a line into a field of unspeakable evil, which he could never cross back. That murder scarred Macbeth. Macbeth was a very unfortunate ....