This essay investigates if macbeth is a tragic hero or a simple villain.it also looks at the characteristics and features of macbeth. This essay uses good quotes and refenences!
Date Submitted: 01/25/2004 16:24:50
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 7 pages (1798 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 7 pages (1798 words)
Macbeth as a Tragic Hero?
For Macbeth to be considered a "Tragic Hero", he must have some potential nobility, some good qualities that make his downfall terrifying. He must be examined as a human being with human weaknesses. Is he one who, as Lady Macbeth says, Act I, Sc. v, "is too full of the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way" or is he the "butcher" that Malcolm considers him to be …
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…does he fight him? Is it because Macduff calls him "coward" and his concept of manliness cannot stand this? Or is it because he cannot bear to be humiliated in public and so forfeit his pride? Is there despair in his final words, "Yet I will try the last"? Or is he heroically accepting Fate, knowing that he must die? Dead butcher or Tragic Hero? Given similar circumstances what might we do?
By Ben Haith
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