Macbeth - A Tragic Hero

1. Shakespeare's Macbeth as Tragic Hero One Work Cited Shakespeare's Macbeth follows the journey of nobleman Macbeth that starts with him as Thane of Glamis and ends with him as King of Scotland. Macbeth is a tragic hero because he possesses all the traits that Aristotle outlined in his poetics. He said that the tragic hero must be a man that is higher than mortal worth, but has tragic flaws. Aristotle also stated that the flaws …

…lead to his killing the king, killing innocent people like women and children, which is cruel in itself, the loss of his morals and sanity, the lose of love for his wife, and at the end of the play, the loss of his very life. All that he worked for was "reversed as a result of his weakness", as defined by the word tragic hero. His conversion from bad to good ultimately affected his fortunes.