Macbeth's Pain A play can not be tragic without pain. In Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, Macbeth is constantly dealing with pain, most often as the one suffering. When the play opens, Macbeth is a celebrated war hero, however when the highest form of power being his is waved in front of him, Macbeth allows greed to take over and inevitably, pain to manifest. He will go to any length to ensure he is King, leading …showed first 75 words of 1317 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1317 total…with that, accepting the detrimental consequences that followed this choice. In the end, Macbeth let his pain impact his entire life and led him to question the importance of life. After coming to the conclusion that life had no meaning, Macbeth gave up, leading to his death and destruction. What once was a choice Macbeth believed would make him powerful, rich, and would bring the most life into his world, ended tragically in his death.