Macbeth And Saddam's Flaws

People are not perfect. They all make mistakes under the influences of their emotions or ambitions. Some mistakes do not affect too much in their lives. But some mistakes may become one’s judgement errors and cause a great hero’s downfall. Macbeth and Saddam are two good examples of tragic heroes. Macbeth is the protagonist in Shakespeare's play Macbeth. He is tricked by three witches to believe that he will become the King of Scotland. Driving by his ambitions, Macbeth murders King Duncan which leads him to doom. Saddam is the fifth President of Iraq. He created a dictatorship that forbids any different voice against him. Saddam uses mass killing to secure his control. His behaviour makes him a tyranny. U.S intervened and took him down.(CNN

Their confidences are the judgement errors that lead to their downfall. In the play, Macbeth believes no men born from women can ever harm him; therefore, no one will defeat him and punish his crime. With such overconfidence, Macbeth loses his mind and become a monster that is driven by its ambitions. His overconfidence causes his Thanes to turn against him and makes Scotland become a bloody land full of diesters. His overconfidence let him loose in the fighting with Macduff. Similarly, Saddam is also overconfident. As the fifth President of Iraq, he does not bring peace or improve his people’s lives, but murders and dictator. He has done planed many public mass murders. He once escaped from assassination in Dujail, a Muslim town. After he recovered, he sends troops to mass murder the whole village of 1500 people. Saddam also killed everyone whom he suspected of. He took those government officials out at the first meeting and shot them without neither evidence or court to support these government officers were tritatores. (ABC News, List of Saddam’s crime is long) His overconfidence lets the world treat him as a tyrant who threatens the stability of Iraq, and the crimes he makes under the thoughts of overconfidence cause him to be executed. Although both Macbeth and Saddam are overly confident from their sense of invincibility, there is still difference between them because Macbeth believes he is invincibility from three witches’ prophecies, and Saddam believes he is invincible by his mass killings. The first three prophecies made by witches let Macbeth conclude that he lives in faith, but he does not know the witches use the parts of truth to trick him believe that he is invincible. Macbeth’s overconfidence is under the purposely mislead by witches. In contrast, Saddam views himself as invincible based on his dictatorship. He uses torture and murder ruling Iraq. People who disagree