Macbeth: A Model Of A Tragic Hero

In all tragedies, the protagonist is the tragic hero and the character the author uses to exemplify what they view as a fatal flaw, or hamartia, of human nature. The tragic hero’s hamartia is the ultimate cause of their own suffering. Their tragic flaw ultimately leads to their suffering, or in the case of the modern tragic hero it is society’s flaw that leads to the tragic hero’s suffering. There are three main models of the tragic hero: the Aristotelian, the Shakespearean, and the modern. All three of these models have five characteristics that must be present in order for a character to be a tragic hero: nobility, hamartia, downfall, anagnorisis, and suffering. In the Shakespearean model, the play Macbeth is a good model of a tragic hero.

She went on to be in nearly thirty movies throughout her life, winning a Golden Globe for her role in Some Like It Hot in 1959. Shortly after marrying retired baseball star Joe DiMaggio in 1954, DiMaggio had to go to Japan and suggested that Monroe go with him, saying it would be their honeymoon even though he would be working. Once in Japan, Monroe was asked to go with the USO to Korea to perform for the soldiers who were fighting, all of whom were overjoyed to see her perform. While getting ready for one of these performances, an officer told her “‘You’ll have to go on ahead of schedule,’ he said. ‘I don’t think we can hold them any longer. They’re throwing rocks on the stage.’ The roar I’d been hearing was my name being yelled by the soldiers.” (Monroe 184-185). Monroe would later write that she was genuinely happy during those performances, unfortunately, her happiness proved to be short lived. Less than nine months after the wedding and honeymoon that they didn’t spend together, Monroe and DiMaggio were divorced. Monroe publicly said the divorce was due to a conflict of careers, but she privately admitted that DiMaggio wanted her to be an Italian housewife, which she could not be (“The Transformation of Popular Culture”). She later married playwright Arthur Miller in 1956 and they divorced in 1961, just days before the release of The Misfits, written by Miller for Monroe. In a time period of high controversy relating to the topic of sex, Monroe used her incredible physique and vulnerable appearance to become known as an American sex