Comparing Macbeth And Fences

You Can’t Escape the Inevitable Fences and Macbeth both have elements in them to be considered tragedies. However when you think about a tragedy Macbeth seems to be the more clear one. When you read Fences these elements begin to come clear as Troy just misses out on his shot to make it big, afterwords comes a life full of regret and bad decisions, and then inevitable death. Troy in the beginning of fences was an aspiring baseball player who was playing in the negro leagues. In fact he actually was considered to be one of the best players in the negro leagues. What set him back however was his age. Troy was getting old when some negro league players started being accepted into the major leagues. This is similar to Macbeth. Macbeth was first …show more content…
With Troy he has a wide range of bad decisions that lead to his downfall. One of which is that he turns to alcohol in an attempt to escape his past. This obviously does not bode well for him as the effects are short lived and temporary. Another bad decision that was made by Troy consist of him not only cheating on his wife but also having a kid with another woman. Because this not only causes conflict with his wife but his family, this begins a downward spiral in his life as the people closest to him begin to feel differently about him and this is obviously not what is wanted when you are trying to advance your life in a positive …show more content…
Things get put into motion when Macbeth gets overcome by the desire to be king. This downfall comes not long after. Right before the murder of King Duncan takes place Macbeth begins to have second thoughts however his wife who has the same desire Macbeth had encourages him to go through with this. Macbeth then becomes upset at what he has done to achieve this new role. To even further the downfall the witches that haunt him warn him of his downfall to which Macbeth does not take seriously enough. This leads to the final battle which Macbeth ultimately loses not only the fight but the crown that he was desperately wanting. This is a very similar pattern of events that occur in