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A traditional tragic hero is defined as someone that is essentially a good and noble person but fails because of a certain flaw in his/her character. In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the lead character, Macbeth is indeed a traditional tragic hero. His tragic flaw, his eventual downfall and the fact that he is essentially a good person makes Macbeth the perfect outline for a tragic hero.
Macbeth is, in essence, a good-hearted and noble man. ... … For brave Macbeth, -well he deserves that name,-
Disdaining fortune, with his brandish’d steel,
Which smok’d with bloody execution
Like valor’s minion,
Carv’d out his passage till he fac’d the slave;
And ne’er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,
Till he unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps (1. ... 18-25)
Shakespeare lets the reader know, right at the beginning of the play, what kind of a man Macbeth is. The king saw Macbeth’s good qualities and named him the new Thane of Cawdor after the betrayal of the old thane: “ROSS. ... 107-110)
After being named Thane of Cawdor Macbeth began to wonder if the witches prophecies would all come true, namely the prophecy of him becoming king:
MACBETH [Aside. ... 138-150)
However, if what the witches spoke was true, Macbeth would have eventually become king because of his noble personality. But unfortunately, Macbeth did not realize this and he felt that the only way to become king was to make the witches prophecy come true.
Even towards the killing of the king, Macbeth’s good and noble personality tried to come through.
Approximate Word count = 1348
Approximate Pages = 5.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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