Mini Essay on Shakespear Macbeth

Year 11A Callan Brombacher Mini Essay Macbeth is a sad hero or the dead exceptcher? Mrs. Dolman concord to Aristotles view, a tragic hero is a lead personality in literature that evokes a adept of disgrace from the audience. The character is harmless and renowned but not entirely good. The hero has a blackened flaw that brings him his success and death. Through the course of the story, the hero commits a heavy(p) wrong creating a shift from good component part to bad. This is usually where the sense of pity (that the audience feels for the hero) stems from.At the end of the story the hero looses everything including his life. Macbeth is portrayed as a virtuous character in the opening scenes of Macbeth, by the riding habit of diction and style. Shakespeare uses a laudatory style focused on Macbeth in the opening scenes displaying him as a renowned soldier. He uses the words noble, brave, neat etcetera, to list some of Macbeths virtues. He uplifts Macbeth, by comments from the king much(prenominal) as O, valiant cousin Worthy gentlemen Like all tragic heroes, Macbeth had a fatal flaw. His ambition was one of the reasons he committed his great wrong. Lady Macbeth knew of his ambition and influenced him to kill Duncan. Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition Macbeth, not entirely good himself, is disposed to evil. Shakespeare demonstrates this by linking Macbeth to the witches through the use of the words light and foul. unobjectionable is foul and foul is fair. This phrase was mentioned by the witches. So foul and fair a day. This phrase was mentioned by Macbeth. Macbeth also expresses no panic for evil, as he shouts commands at the witches. Speak, I charge you Macbeths fortune begins to change for the worse as the play continues. His Subjects become suspicious of him, and he begins to regret killing Duncan, as it leads to a lack of sleep and insanity. fall apart be with the dead, whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, than o n the torture of the principal to lie in restless ecstasy. The audience feels a sense of pity for Macbeth due to the fact that he did not want to kill Duncan but his ambition and wifes influence forced his hand. After Duncans death Macbeth feels guilt and remorse, wishing he had not committed the crime. In the final scenes of the play, Macbeth loses his wife and sanity, is over thrown and killed by Macduff. Macbeth displays all the characteristics of a tragic hero described by Aristotle, leading me to believe Macbeth is a tragic hero and not a dead butcher.