Macbeth's Tragic Flaw
Title: Macbeth's Tragic Flaw
Category: /Literature/European Literature
Details: Words: 1015 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Macbeth's Tragic Flaw
Category: /Literature/European Literature
Details: Words: 1015 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Sometimes a tragic hero is created, not through his own villainy),
but rather through some flaw in him, he being one of those who are in high
station and good fortune, like Oedipus and Thyestes and the famous men of
such families as those.' (Poetics, Aristotle). Every great tragedy is
dominated by a protagonist who has within himself a tragic flaw, too much or
too little of one of Aristotle's twelve virtues. In Macbeth,
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would not have killed a man he
loved and revered, an act that eventually led to his downfall. Not everybody
in this world can be trusted, there are too many people who are only looking
out for their own best interests. While one should not become paranoid and
trust nobody, lest they become cut off from society, safeguards must be
established against these fraudulent people so that they cannot take
advantage of an unprepared populace.