Not a tradegy

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Macbeth was never a good person from the beginning. <br>Macbeth says: <br>"My dull brains were wrought with things forgotten" (act 1. scene 3. lines 149-150)<br>just after he's met the witches.<br>The witches have given him "tidings" of the glory that awaits him, yet from what Macbeth has said in the above quoted, implicates that Macbeth had already had thoughts like these in the past. Plans and thoughts of becoming King. So it was his ambition from the very beginning...he had had this in him from day 1. How may we then say that Macbeth has fallen from Grace when we can easily contemplate from the above quoted lines Macbeth had planned such a thing before as well, yet his plans were now long "forgotten".<br>hmmm...so Maybe macbeth is not a tragedy at all. Just an account of one man's ruthlessness in his path to desired worldly glory, and fulfillment of ambitions??? I dont know...just a theory...<br>Although a great script non the less...

[Empress Kat]

It's true that Macbeth was ambitious and ruthless from the beginning. But this does not mean the the play is not a tragedy.

You must remember- a tragedy, in Shakespeare, is defined as a story where the main character fails in their quest. In comedy, the heros get what they want and live happily ever after. In tragedy, they don't achieve whatever their goal was.

Macbeth's goal was to rule as King for a long time and for his children and descendents to rule after him. He did not acheive this. Therefore, tragedy.

[Charles Darnay]

Althogh a Shakespearian tragedy has a tragic hero, which Macbeth is

Another characteristic of a Shakespearian tragedy is the rise of the tragic hero, the flaw that sparks his destruction, his descnet, his death..... all can be found in Macbeth