Macbeth: A Shakespearean Tragic Hero

Part I of Essay
"The tragic hero must be neither villain nor a virtuous man but a 'character between these two extremes...a man who not eminently good and just, yet whose misfortune is brought about not by vice or depravity but by some error or human frailty." -Aristotle (poetics) The cha ....

Part II of Essay
.... fortune, with his brandished steel, which smoked with bloody execution…”(Act I, Scene II, Line 15-16). The Sergeant spoke very highly of Macbeth, and his actions in this war show his loyalty towards Duncan in that he would fight for his King. As the play continued Macbeth’s flaw becomes even more visible. His ambition for power would not go unnoticed. The author first gives a hint at the character’s ambition when Macbeth mentions, “[Aside] Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor. The greatest is behindº” (Act I, Scene III, Line 116-117). T ....