To What Extent Is Macbeth A Tragic Hero

In Shakespeare’s well known tragic story,“Macbeth”,there are multiple various scene’s involving war, celebration and murder. In the play, many character’s are described to have different types of literary characteristics and Macbeth, the main character, is considered a tragic hero. Macbeth’s tragic flaws qualify him as a tragic hero, these flaws are ambition and having lack moderation.The tragic flaws contributed to Macbeth’s downfall since it set his life to be in danger from the events taken place after the tragic decisions he made from his actions/flaws. Macbeth in Shakespeare’s well known play is considered as a tragic hero, with tragic flaws and those flaws contributing to his death. A tragic hero is a character who makes a judgement error that leads to his or her own death. It is a character of noble birth with heroic or almost heroic characteristics. Even though the character is considered to be great, that person is still not said to be perfect. Usually a tragic hero’s downfall is her or his own fault and is a result of their free choice. Macbeth is a tragic hero because he has all the qualities of a tragic hero from the Elizabethan

Because of Macbeth’s ambition and lack of moderation, he took matters into his own hands, deciding to kill Duncan in order to become king as the witches prophesied. This is the decision that set off the chain of events, beginning with Duncan’s sons fleeing to England and Malcolm deciding to go to war against Macbeth, avenging his father. The witches would then tell Macbeth that, “no man born of woman can harm him,” thinking that no one would be able to kill him, he goes to battle with Malcolm. Then, when he learns that Macduff was not born of woman, but was born from a c-section, he starts to panic while in battle, and ends up being beheaded by Macduff. Having the battle won by Malcolm and him become king of