Loss Of Power In Macbeth

The classic Shakespearean tragedy concerned a hero and the tragic flaw that would see his demise and loss of power all packed into a symmetrical, five act play. Using complementary characters, the balanced events and the well-formed structure of the play, Macbeth demonstrates the epitome of a Shakespearean tragedy and hence, maintains balance to expose the historic rise and fall of a flawed dictator.

Although It has become normal convention for every story to have a hero or a heroine, the play of Macbeth tragically ties both together in a relationship that ultimately fails when the heroes get exactly what they want: power. The characters of Macbeth and his femme fatale, Lady Macbeth become almost identical in their ambition and sinful drives. From the moment Lady

Macbeth is divided up into five acts: all approximately similar in length. Similar to many of Shakespeare’s works, Macbeth offer audience members a taste of the typical rise and fall of the conflict with a climax right in the middle of the play. Macbeth begins Act I with a conflict: his prophecy to become king. In Act 2, the audience witnesses the rising action of Duncan’s murder and Macbeth’s ambition as he asks, “Is this a dagger which I see before me,” (2.1.33) and in the middle of Act 3, Macbeth’s plotted murder of his own best friend, Banquo, truly reaches the tipping point of the play for which Macbeth is in too deep with his own ambition. The climax point of this story also sees Macbeth receiving bad luck for the first time in contrast with the beneficial power and praise he has received up until this point. Act 4 and 5 see the resolution of conflict and restoration of order respectively, as Malcolm and Macduff plot to restore peace over Scotland in Act 4 and complete the deed of killing Macbeth in the bloody battle of Act