Macbeth the peacock as a tragic hero Macbeth has been accepted as a hero in the start of the play, however the character development causes the opinions to diverge. One fellow book reviewer, sally12, states that “The feelings and actions of Macbeth is that in him, there is little to admire which is extreme and does not reflect the whole truth. Macbeth is of course a villain of the bad.” Differing on the idea, Macbeth’s progression has been made absurd by the external factors, and how his personality single-handedly promoted his own downfall initiated by fate; thus it supports to rehabilitate Macbeth as a tragic hero, instead of a villain. Relating to Joseph Campbell’s “hero’s journey”, the original world in, the settings provide an overall
