Shakespeares Macbeth - The Tragic Hero :: Macbeth essays

Macbeth Macbeth The Tragic Hero          The most recent meaning of the word Tragic Hero as defined by MicrosoftWorks dictionary is A hero of noble stature whose fortunes are reversed as aresult of weakness. Many characters in the play were affected by  calamity fora number of reasons, but without argue, Macbeth and his reverse of fortunes aredue to his own actions, and the rest of the cast were merely victims of this.Macbeths actions lead to his very nemises. From the beginning of the play thisdisaster of his was manifested through forces beyond human the supernatural ifyou will. These forces were that of the witches. The next factor in determininghis fate was his own decisions and actions. Lady Macbeth is the second reasonfor Macbeths tragedy without her abide in aiding his decision, Macbeth wouldhave never had the strength to lie, scheme, and destroy to such extremes. Thelast, and most devastating to Macbeth, was his cripled conscious wh ich made himact out of selfeshness and lust.  The sequence of these factors were mostdefenitely raise by the evilness and twisted nature of the witches, for if itwerent for their influence, then Macbeth would have never turned his desiresinto reality.         At the very beginning of the play Macbeth is nothing but a generalfighting for his country. His fellow fighters admire Macbeth, for in theireyes, and even in the eyes of the highest of authority, his nobility andcouragousness is looked up to. His success for his acheivement is rewarded, andhis confidence is made stronger because of this. But this is only if the beginning,and soon these good fortunes will come to a tragic end. The audience is thenintroduced to a group of witches. Three witches who appear as wicked andrepulsive. They appear to signify all that is wrong and corrupt. Macbeths over-confident attitude is the first characteristic the witches detect, and they takeadvantage of this trait to make his life as miserable as they possibly can. Heencounters the witches in Act1, scene1, and from this point he is now a stepcloser to realising what his future holds... so he thinks. The witches firstaddress Macbeth as king, and Banguo as one Lesser than Macbeth.(1.2.65) Infact,Macbeth isnt king, never the less, the witches insist in prophecising that heis and will be. The witches are already planting seeds of persuation into hishead which are made to charge into tragedy. These destructive and manipulativeforces the witches have power over alter his viewpoints about his values and