Macbeth As A Tragedy In Macbeth

Macbeth has had a numerous amount of tragedies of throughout his life: killing duncan, realizing his family line will not continue, then killing banqou but not his son, the feeling that his life is meaningless, and eventually fighting with macduff to an inevitable death. It is left to our interperetation to decide whether Macbeth is the antagonist or protagonist. While he does make some morally questionable decisions throughout his life, Macbeth does these things because in his mind they are what is needed to be done. His wife definitely has a lot to do with his mentality. Lady Macbeth will manipulate anyone to get the power she thinks she deserves. She used her husband, Macbeth, eventually dragging them both to their demise so she could be seen as a woman of high power. A tragedy is defined as an event that causes great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or
While he did do many detastable things, he did them because he was a loyal Scottsman and family man. He wanted the best for Scotland. He believed that Scotland deserved the best and that the best was him. When he realized that his family line would not carry on he did his best, or what he thought was best, to continue it. His wife did nothing to discourage these bad ideas, infact, she encouraged them. Macbeth’s tragedies were one after another and if we control our fate, did Macbeth allow this to happen to him? He was set in his ways before he met the witches they just confirmed what he already felt. If he had just looked at life through a different perspective he might have ended up differently. The decisions he made and the thoughts he had controlled how he acted and in the end those decisions effected everyone in the story. He was eternal pessimistic with a controlling side who also had a death wish. Act II, Scene I, Lines 33-40: “Is this a dagger which I see before