“You wish to be great. You have ambition, but you lack the ruthlessness that should go
with it. You want to get power in a moral way. You don’t want to cheat, but you want to win
unfairly. Great Glamis, you wish for something that requires a necessary act to get it, but you are
frightened to do what you would still like to have done.” (Shakespeare 51) Macbeth is
indubitably a tragic hero. He has a wide variety of traits that prove this to be true. Macbeth has a
huge hamartia. Unfortunately this flaw does lead him to his downfall and his eventual death. Had
he noticed his flaw, his adverse death could have been avoided. Macbeth did not seem to notice
when others clued in on the fact that he had been doing away with a collection
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Because of the rich hatred the
Scottish people felt for Macbeth, when his death came about it was quite meaningful. His death
meant that Scotland no longer had to live in fear of murder and they would finally have a king
who was sane. These are just a few of the traits of the tragic hero that is Macbeth.
Macbeth’s largest flaw or hamartia is how badly he wants power. He will do anything to
obtain it and keep it. Nothing will get in the way of him and his throne. Especially when his
overbearing wife is pushing him to complete whatever task is necessary. Macbeth is willing to
take lives in order to get what he wants. When he made his first kill it was detrimental on his
spirit as you can see from Act 2 when he began to panic after murdering Duncan. He thought that
he could no longer be blessed. “Hearing their fear, I could not say, ‘Amen,’ when they said, ‘God
bless us.” (Shakespeare 81) The murders to follow Duncan’s came much easier to Macbeth. He
thought to keep his power he will just have to continue executing anyone who became a threat to
his kingdom. Imaginably, people were not a fan of Macbeth after they discovered his blood
soaked
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They gave him the original idea that he should be king. That idea is what
leads up to his desire of power being amplified and sparked the beginning of his downfall. The
witches also trick him into thinking that he is immortal. “Be bloody, bold, and determined; laugh
to scorn the power of man, for no one born of woman shall harm Macbeth.” (Shakespeare 165)
The witches trick him into thinking all of these things so that he will have a downfall and
eventually die.
Macbeth’s death was certainly most important to the people of Scotland. Before his
downfall, Macbeth was getting away with slaughtering multiple people. Had no one caught on to
his malicious plans, there may not have been anyone left. Thankfully for the people of Scotland,
Macbeth was finished off by Macduff. When his time came in Act 5 Macbeth knew he was done,
yet it was not of his character to not put up a fight. “I will not surrender to kiss the ground before
young Malcolm’s feet and be tormented by jeering crowds. Though Birnam Wood is come to
Dunsinane, and I’m facing you, who are not of woman born, yet I will fight to the end.”
(Shakespeare 239) The people of Scotland no longer had to live in