Tragic Hero In Macbeth

In Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, the main character Macbeth is labeled as either a tragic hero or a villain. A tragic hero is a literary character who makes a judgement error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction. A villain is the bad guy of the story. They are the ones who come up with a diabolical plot to somehow cause harm or ruin (“Literary Terms.”). As of now where we are at in the play, it seems as if Macbeth is a character who does reckless things but intends to do the right thing. In the beginning of the play, Macbeth is faithfully serving the king by slaying the enemies who try to invade the great land of Scotland. Although selfish by killing King Duncan, his righteous morals and servant attitude says otherwise in the

It introduces Fleance, Banquo’s son. Banquo and Fleance are walking around the castle because Banquo could not fall asleep. While they were walking around, they run into Macbeth and his servant. Banquo asks why Macbeth was awake because everyone in the castle was either relaxed or asleep. He also mentions how much the king likes Macbeth, and even gives him a very nice diamond for Lady Macbeth for being such a great hostess.At this point, Macbeth is pondering whether or not to really kill King Duncan because as Macbeth is thinking, the king has literally done nothing wrong to him. He pushes those thoughts away and tells the servant to ring for lady, which is code saying that he’s ready whenever she was. As the servant goes away, Macbeth starts to get a vision. He sees a dagger floating in the middle of the room and he tries to grab it, failing to do so. As he tries to grab the dagger, it slowly gets covered in blood, and the dagger started to point towards the direction of where King Duncan was staying for the night. This was to foreshadow what Macbeth was about to do, which was kill the king. This was also to show that only bad things happen at night. Scene II starts with Lady Macbeth portrayed as a psycho again. She says that she’s given the servants the drugged alcohol and that she had some herself, making herself feel nice. The servants were snoring, and they were so drugged that you could not tell if they were even alive or not. Macbeth returns and Lady Macbeth says that everything is set up. Macbeth goes and kills the king, and returns with bloody daggers. By this point, Macbeth has done a villainous thing by killing an innocent character, King Duncan. Duncan has done nothing but good to Macbeth, yet he murdered him with no reason except for being power hungry and selfish. Keith Waddington put it in a great way: “Though perhaps something of a truism, both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth suffer from the same