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Although a great majority of the time, power corrupts decisions, it also can have a positive effect on choices. In the play Macbeth, one character who keeps in mind what is best for the people is Malcolm. As the son of King Duncan, Malcolm has virtuous morals and realizes that Macbeth is only in it for power instead of thinking of what is best for the people of Scotland. Malcolm makes a choice to fight back with the help of England. His choice to fight for power, although used violence against Macbeth, was a positive decision because he was thinking of the people and his father's legacy. His success is shown when he and Macduff defeat Macbeth and Malcolm is named the new king. He exclaims to his people, “[w]e shall not spend a large expense of time/ before we reckon with your several loves/ and make us even with you” (5.8.72-4). Only seconds after being named king, Malcolm is thinking of how he will reward his people. This proves

Macbeth's terrible murder of the King in order to obtain the crown causes absolute chaos and disturbs the Natural Order, or balance of the universe, and so he is punished for this. By murdering the king, Macbeth causes Duncan's sons to flee Scotland, allowing Macbeth to obtain the throne. This disturbs the Natural Order, as the rightful heir isn't on the throne, and slowly Macbeth pays for his evil deeds through his descent into evil. Macbeth is soon punished for all his cruel and wicked deeds, and his punishment is death by Macduff. Afterwards, the Natural Order is re-established as Duncan's son Malcolm rightfully obtains the throne, but many lives have been lost along the way. For example, after Duncan's murder, his sons fear for their own lives, and flee to other countries. "Let's not consort with them… I'll to England" (2, 3, 131-133). "To Ireland, I. Our separate fortune | Shall keep us both the safer. Where we are, | There's daggers in men's smiles; the nea'er in blood, | The nearer bloody" (2, 3, 134-137). Shakespeare uses a metaphor here ("daggers in men's smiles") to show the fear and distrust felt by Duncan's sons- fear for their lives, distrusting all those around them. Their flight leaves the throne free for Macbeth, who is given the title without question. "The

Before being slain by Macduff, Macbeth says that he “will not yield to kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet” (V.viii.32-34) and the important part of this quote is word choice. Words such as “yield” and “young” show how Macbeth feels about Malcolm, and how through letting Malcolm take the throne he would essentially be laying down the crown to take a position of a servant to someone who he doesn’t think deserves the crown. Once Macduff returns with Macbeth’s head and Malcolm is crowned king a great deal of maturity is shown when he says in his final speech “That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace, we will perform in measure, time and place” (V.iii.84-85). Ending the play, Malcolm is saying that while there is work to do in Scotland, everyone shall do it through a collaborative effort, and everything will be done at the proper time. Through these final lines Malcolm proves that as king he will be willing to work with the people of Scotland in restoring their country to what it once was, and also thanks everyone involved in placing him on the throne letting us know that he’s grown to be a gracious man, a sign of a true

Macbeth is a tragedy written in the 17th century that shows what the desire for power can do to a man. Macbeth is expressed as being the villain. But, Macbeth is in fact a tragic hero, doomed by fate from the beginning into the madness he put himself in. If it not been for meeting the witches and persuasion of his wife, the play would have had a very different ending.

When Macbeth is slain, Malcolm sees it as a fresh start to the country. All the people who had to flee may now return. He intends to reward everyone who stood by him. "We shall not spend a large expense of time before we reckon with your several loves." Throughout the play Malcolm has shown himself to be loyal and fair and shows the qualities of a good king.

Yet another Tragic Hero: Macbeth Through history and literature, many types of heroes exist. In his Poetics, Aristotle delineates qualities necessary for a tragic hero. According to the Greek philosopher’s definition, a tragic hero is a character that starts at the top of his/her society and falls to its very depths because of an internal weakness or poor decision. In Macbeth, Shakespeare creates such a character. Through an exclamation of peripeteia, nemesis and its resulting anagnorisis, and harartia, it is evident that Shakespeare’s character of Macbeth exemplifies the classic tragic hero.

In the play Macbeth, William Shakespeare tasked himself with the arduous responsibility to “take a ‘noble man’, full of ‘conscience’ and ‘the milk of human kindness’, and make him a ‘dead butcher’ yet keep him an object of pity rather than hatred” (Booth 17). Shakespeare did this effectively, creating Macbeth as a tragic hero. Macbeth is an exceedingly ambitious man, and this ambition is the weakness that begins his downfall and earns him classification as a tragic hero. Also, Macbeth’s blatant disregard for the natural order and his attempt to control fate singlehandedly are certainly the qualities of a tragic hero. In attempting to control his own fate, Macbeth only seals the fate that the three witches had already set for him.

‘Macbeth’ is a play by William Shakespeare that shows a protagonist going from bad to worse throughout the play. Shakespeare wrote this play, taking in mind current affairs at the time of 1603-1606. This is the time when a Scottish king, James I was given the English crown. This king was obsessed with witches, so Shakespeare brought this theme strongly into the play. It also brings the theme of treachery towards the King. This pleased King James and also pleased him about showing the line of Stuart Kings, James descendants, in Act 4, Scene 1.

He moves troops and marches to the war against Macbeth and finally becomes a king. Like his father; Malcolm is known as a good king among his people. On other hand, Macbeth is the antagonist of the play. In the beginning he is perceived as a good soldier and a person that would do everything to serve and protect his king.

  The tragedy of Macbeth comes about because of a single event in his life. If that one moment, the meeting with the witches on the heath, had not happened then Macbeth would no doubt have gone on to be a loyal and respected subject of King Duncan and, later, King Malcolm. However, the meeting did happen and the powerful force of ambition was unleashed within Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. It is the combination of these two factors, the meeting with the witches and Macbeth's own inner demons, that lead to tragedy, and make the play 'terrifying' in the Aristotelian sense.

Aristotle indicated that “Every Tragedy must have six parts, which parts determine its quality—namely, Plot, Characters, Diction, Thought, Spectacle, and Melody.”(1) Without having those parts the tragedy will lose it meaning. The play Macbeth is categorized as a Tragedy, because it applies many elements and characteristics which tragedy has. In other hand it is clear that Shakespeare effected by Greek tragedy, because he used the main elements of tragedy. Most of tragedy plays were having five acts. In Macbeth we can simply see that Shakespeare made Macbeth into five acts.

    When Macbeth kills King Duncan in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth, there is a breakdown of order throughout Scotland. This breakdown is evident through three main factors; within the person, mainly through Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, through the kingdom and through nature. From a completely ordered nation into the depths of chaos - Scotland collapsed from the lack of strong leadership. In the end, when resolution is reached, this chaos is reversed and Scotland is restored to a peaceful nation as it was before Macbeth's reign.

Macbeth is a primary example of a typical Aristotelian tragedy. It follows the structure necessary from the tragic hero, to his downfall and ultimately to the catharsis necessary for an original Greek drama. The aspects of this play are a perfect example of the tragedies of that

The great tragedy of the play is the loss of the kind of man Macbeth could have been and almost was. The contradictions of his character and his fatal mistake in giving in to his ambition could not make this possible. Macbeth has chosen to fulfil his ambition freely and is responsible for his actions. He is seen as a tragic hero as he loses his greatness due to his

In William shakespeare’s Macbeth,Macbeth is a classic example of a tragic hero in shakesperean work.Macbeth display the major characteristics of a tragic hero throughout the play until his tragic end.The play potrays Macbeth as a lost cause by showing how he fell from being a honest and just man who fought for whats right, to a cruel,superstitious,ambicious dictator.In william shakespreares Macbeth,Macbeth is a tragic hero because he compromises his honor and negates his moral values in order to obtain power which results with lots of tragic events such as character deaths leading to his tragic end.