Macbeth’s Tragic Flaw
Marisa Yovanovski
This book is about tragedy and betrayal against your kingdom, friends, and family. Macbeth is a courageous and loyal Scottish noble who receives a prophecy from three witches that predict his future regarding his position in royalty. Throughout the story, he becomes consumed by ambition and overwhelming pressure by his wife, Lady Macbeth to act upon the prophecy. Various secondary characters have played a part in the story’s conflicts, such as Duncan and Lady Macbeth. Duncan is the King and ruler of Scotland in which Macbeth has been his noble for many years. Macbeth seizes Duncan’s title more than he had expressed before, which leads to conflict in the story. Lady Macbeth is Macbeth’s wife whom has …show more content…
His selfish attitude continues after he is eventually crowned Thane of Cawdor. This is proven by his reign not doing things that are best for Scotland, but, rather by desperately trying to hold onto the throne in which he dishonestly gained. His paranoia attributes to him perceiving threats to be everywhere and makes decisions based off this feeling in which he possesses. Overall, Macbeth was originally a genuine man, but over time, he let go of his loyalty and became ambitious in a selfish manner for not overcoming his jealousy toward Duncan’s crown and it later affecting his behaviour and …show more content…
The manipulation he gave into lead to him experiencing and portraying a selfish and careless attitude, which then drove him to commit various unfair murders to those he has either been in relation with or indirect relation to. Ambition is not always a bad thing, however, in Macbeth’s case it was. He let his thoughts overpower his loyalty to Duncan and Banquo, as well as his behaviour and wellbeing. As mentioned earlier, three factors that have played a part in Macbeth’s ambitious downfall is the manipulation in which he surrendered, his own developing selfish quality and murderous actions. Therefore, Macbeth’s tragic flaw is ambition, his tyranny demonstrates his form of leadership within Scotland, and Macduff was ethically above him in terms of his authoritative
Marisa Yovanovski
This book is about tragedy and betrayal against your kingdom, friends, and family. Macbeth is a courageous and loyal Scottish noble who receives a prophecy from three witches that predict his future regarding his position in royalty. Throughout the story, he becomes consumed by ambition and overwhelming pressure by his wife, Lady Macbeth to act upon the prophecy. Various secondary characters have played a part in the story’s conflicts, such as Duncan and Lady Macbeth. Duncan is the King and ruler of Scotland in which Macbeth has been his noble for many years. Macbeth seizes Duncan’s title more than he had expressed before, which leads to conflict in the story. Lady Macbeth is Macbeth’s wife whom has …show more content…
His selfish attitude continues after he is eventually crowned Thane of Cawdor. This is proven by his reign not doing things that are best for Scotland, but, rather by desperately trying to hold onto the throne in which he dishonestly gained. His paranoia attributes to him perceiving threats to be everywhere and makes decisions based off this feeling in which he possesses. Overall, Macbeth was originally a genuine man, but over time, he let go of his loyalty and became ambitious in a selfish manner for not overcoming his jealousy toward Duncan’s crown and it later affecting his behaviour and …show more content…
The manipulation he gave into lead to him experiencing and portraying a selfish and careless attitude, which then drove him to commit various unfair murders to those he has either been in relation with or indirect relation to. Ambition is not always a bad thing, however, in Macbeth’s case it was. He let his thoughts overpower his loyalty to Duncan and Banquo, as well as his behaviour and wellbeing. As mentioned earlier, three factors that have played a part in Macbeth’s ambitious downfall is the manipulation in which he surrendered, his own developing selfish quality and murderous actions. Therefore, Macbeth’s tragic flaw is ambition, his tyranny demonstrates his form of leadership within Scotland, and Macduff was ethically above him in terms of his authoritative