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What is tragic falw? Do you find it in Macbeth’s character? Give Illustrations.

Shakespeare’s heroes possess one ‘tragic trait‘ in their character. In fact, it refers to a kind of loope hole. From this weakness in their character emerges the whole tragedy. Each tradic hero has marked weakness in him. It leads to tragedy. Macbeth possesses indomitable and insatiable ambition. Othello is a man of suspicious nature. Lear is proud and haughty and tam let possesses wavering spirit Shakespearean tragedy implies the ruin of a grave and noble nature through the existence of some serious inherent weakness brought into contact with the special hostile circumstances calculated to defeat it.

Shakespearean hero suffers tremendously internally as well as externally Macbeth’s mind struggles between his ambition and his loyalty towards his kind. The ambition in the hero is beyond trait and this alded by his wife who is equally ambitious. He becomes prey to ambition and circumstances natural or unnatural develop into a consuming fever. It is proneness to the vice of ambition it is tendency to crime which prompts the man of otherwise noble character to commit the abominable crime which leads him to ruin.

When two of the three prophecies of the witches are fulfilled. Macbeth thinks that the third might be fulfilled and might also true-he might become the king of Scotland. An example from A. I. Sc. (II).

“My thought, whose murder is but fantastoca;

Shakes so my single state of man that function.

Is smothers surmise, and nothing is

But what is not.”

This is the germ of tragedy. In the text stage we find him hesitating to commit the crime. He knows that such a crime is bound to be punished in the further an example from A. I. Sc. VII,

“This even handed justice

Commands the ingredients of our poison’s challice

To out own lips”.

This is the most essential lesson of tragedy most poeticaly put but unfortunately the man whose lips utter this noble wisdom forgets everything and goes on committing murder after murder till the fatal end is reached. Macbeth soul is a sould divided against itself. The unseen force manifests itself through the perversities of his character, and hurls him down a precipitous slope to inevritable ruin. In his case the fatal force works through the weakness of his characters the weakness of inordinate ambition which overleaps itself and falls on the other. Macbeth’s will and conscience are too weak to arrest the working out of nemesis which he is always self-conscious enough to prerceive in the bitterness of agony. It was a negative aspect of Macbeth.