Who is the saddest person in the play? Who suffers the most? Whose tragedy is it?
Throughout the play Macbeth , there are many characters who display large amounts of unhappiness. There is a debate to who is really the saddest, one seems to stand out above all the character Macbeth. Although the story portrays him as being a great man, he is doing very well, for himself forcing his way into kingship and is even told of supposed immortality. While he definitely does suffer the most, and it is Macbeths tragedy. A man of great pride with one mistake leading down the path of tragedy, suffering from the guilt towering over him.
Throughout the play of Macbeth it all seems to be getting worse for Macbeth as it seems to progress, he loses all which matters to him. He loses his wife, his friends, everyone close to him, he starts to lose peoples respect and then starts to realise that his seed will never become kings . Lady Macbeth, the love of his life starts to go mad, sleep walks and eventually dies, through the cause of Macbeth’s actions. Macbeth orders the killing
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Macbeth in his soliloquy thinks of many different reasons as to why he should not murder his king. For example as his host, he should “against his murderer shut the door” (Act I, Scene VII, Line XIV). Although he is persuaded by his wife through her threatening manhood. He suffers through this stage of the play as he does not want to come across as a coward towards his wife . He is fairly ambitious and is someone who wants to please his wife. His guilt is clearly shown when he says, “Methought, I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more’ Macbeth does murder sleep” (Act II, Scene II, Line XLII). This seems to affect Macbeth a lot because he is faced with all of the guilt he is being overcome by. Causing him to become more blood thirsty and have his reputation severed a point where fear is the only reason he has any