The Tragedy Of Macbeth As A Tragic Hero In Shakespeare's Macbeth

'Macbeth ' is written in the classification of drama that is Shakespearean tragedy in which William Shakespeare used which has a noble protagonist, who can be referred to as a 'tragic hero ', is placed in a stressful heightened dilemma which continues to climax, ending in a fatal culmination. The many plots of Shakespearean tragedies focus on the negative fortunes of the main protagonist which ultimately leads to their ruin and death. Most view Macbeth as a tragic or flawed hero due to him following some of Aristotle 's characteristics of what a tragic hero should be like 'The hero must have a weakness, usually it is pride '. Similarly, Macbeth 's pride of being king resulting him in his one true weakness or 'Excessive Pride (hubris) '. …show more content…
The punishment women received for disobeying men was the whipping stool - where they were beaten into submission, similarly, disobedience was thought as a crime against their religion. Women would not have been able to be heirs to their father 's title, the only exception was the monarchy. Therefore, Lady Macbeth completely subverts from the society 's norms of what a woman should be, thus, making the Jacobean audience believe that she might have been a witch. Witches in the Jacobean era were thought to be allied with death and conducting themselves as agents of Satan. It was assumed that they could see into the future and control extreme weather conditions consequently making the audience assume that she is the 'other ' in normal society. Lady Macbeth shows the prime characteristics of being the 'other in society, the characteristics being the state of being different from and unknown to the social identity of a person. Another way of describing "The Other" is to portray oneself at the centre of focus and "The Other" on the outside like Lady Macbeth who subverts entirely from society 's norms making her comply to the outside of …show more content…
She completely subverts from her own gender as a female from the patriarchal society 's expectations of a woman, although acting as a 'temptress ' to 'lure Macbeth into sin ' which brings forward her sexuality and possessiveness over power and control towards her husband 's submission. Protestant leader John Knox wrote 'Women in her greatest perfection were made to serve and obey men ', which illustrates that women were raised to believe that they were inferior to men causing them to be dominated against every male member of their family ; father and brother, also including men in everyday society in the Jacobean era, to which Lay Macbeth does not conform to. Due to the subversion of the dialogue that Lady Macbeth uses, the wide variety of vocabulary against Macbeth already powers her as the dominating gender, contrasting to the society 's norms of women being 'seen and not heard '. Lady Macbeth uses her "tongue" to forward her ambitions profoundly by manipulating Macbeth to allegedly 'to sin and kill the king ', thus, also allowing her to have the ability to dictate over Macbeth and use that ability to be more of a male. Correspondingly, she uses "thine ears" to influence Macbeth by listening to her monologues of immorality and manipulation which impedes her desire to provoke