Responsibility for the Tragedy in Macbeth
A tragedy is the story of a noble persons fall from goodness into
evil. We watch the life that was once full of promise being thrown
away. Macbeth is a tragedy because it is about how Macbeth ruins his
reputation through circumstances and his own mistakes and his own
ambition.
There are many different viewpoints to take in answering this
question, and it is possible to argue many different cases, and give
good reason for them all, so it is my opinion that there are many
characters in Shakespeare’s play that are responsible for the tragedy
in Macbeth.
The first person that comes to mind is Macbeth himself because as we
know, he committed all the murders himself therefore making him the
most obvious person to point the finger at. If he claims to be such a
good person why would he do these things? Macbeth committing these
murders makes me question his personality and character. This is a
strong argument and I do agree that Macbeth has a dark side to him
that drives him to commit these deeds. But, as we know, no civil
person can turn from being a decent human being to a murderer without
any justification.
A lot of people would say that Macbeth does have an ounce of goodness
because he recognises that his actions are wrong; but would this not
be a major flaw in his character as he continues to do the deed all
the same? The thing that makes me feel that Macbeth is a partly good
man and could never do this without outside interference is the guilt
he feels after he has done these terrible things and indeed before
them he is in doubt whether to do them (e.g. Act One Scene Seven lines
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...sh and indecisive as the play goes on. First he
is swayed by Lady Macbeth, and then he seems to act very illogically.
This is another facet of his paranoia. Macbeth wants to stay king, so
he hires murderers to slay all who oppose him. In the last act he
becomes crueller and crueller, lashing out with feverish intensity at
all those around him, even those trying to help him and innocent
bystanders. That last statement is not just metaphysical, though:
Macbeth is diseased of both the mind and soul.
Like most tragedies, Macbeth, the main character, has a fatal flaw in
his character. Macbeth's weakness is the fact that he is too sharing
in his ambition. He opens up his path in life to include others as
well, namely the withes and his wife. After that event, the true
Macbeth is gone, another traveller on the road of evil.
controls or around him for a long period of time, the least punishment he will get is being exiled
Placing the Blame in Macbeth & nbsp; The blame for the tragedy of Macbeth must be apportioned between the three witches, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth himself. & nbsp; The three witches play a very important role in affecting the actions of Macbeth with their ability to steer him in the direction they desire. They not only use their supernatural powers, but also prey on his greed and ambition. & nbsp; All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee thane of Glamis! All hail, Macbeth!
to his indecisiveness. An example of this is in Act III, section III, line 73,
begin to treat him like a circus show, similarly to a woman that had been changed to a spider by
You are in a candy store with your friends, one friend suggests that you should steal a candy bar. You are old enough to know that it is a bad decision, but you do it anyway. Who is to blame? Many would say you friend is to blame because he told you it would be a good idea. Generally speaking, the blame would fall upon you because you were the one that made the decision. Is it possible that in some situations the blame could fall upon multiple people? Maybe you could blame your friend for giving you the idea or blame your other friend for not trying to stop you, then you and your friends would be responsible for your downfall. Within Macbeth, I think it is reasonable to say multiple people were responsible for his downfall.
Though Macbeth performs a plethora of cruel tasks throughout the play, his actions are not his own. The witches, the apparitions and Lady Macbeth's constantly manipulate and motivate Macbeth throughout the play.
How would you feel if people and your surroundings were affected by your uprising? In our world, these things happen consecutively. Most of the time, unexplainable events occur, and fingers are pointed towards you. Macbeth, a play by William Shakespeare, comes to the realization that characters that help Macbeth do not contribute to Macbeth’s downfall. The character who is to blame for Macbeth’s downfall is Macbeth because Macbeth chooses what he does in life, and he continues to do bad things. He is manipulated, ambitious, and has a choice.
MacBeth is Responsible for His Downfall. There were many wrongs committed in "MacBeth." But who should bear the major responsibility for these actions? The witches prophesying the truth? Lady MacBeth's scheming and persuasion?
task of revenge that has been assigned to him. These four soliloquies are the backbones of the play, and they offer the
have a good way to identify him and understand him. In many ways he is a
his ideas in his speech in Act I, scene ii when he says "If all the year were
he is weak, scared, and a confused old man. At the end of the play Lear has
and scheme to go and meet him. This shows that it is important for the
In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the protagonist exhibits a puzzling, duplicitous nature. Hamlet contradicts himself throughout the play. He endorses both the virtues of acting a role and that of being true to one's self. He further supports both of these conflicting endorsements with his actions. This ambiguity is demonstrated by his alleged madness, for he does behave madly, only to become perfectly calm and rational an instant later. These inconsistencies are related with the internal dilemmas he faces. He struggles with the issue of revenging his father's death, vowing to kill Claudius and then backing out, several times. Upon this point Hamlet stammers through the play. The reason for this teetering is directly related to his inability to form a solid opinion about role playing. This difficulty is not present, however, at the start of the play.
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