Macbeth Tragedy Essay

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In the well-known Shakespearean play, “Macbeth”, the six parts of Aristotle’s definition of tragedy mend together in order to create the perfect example of tragedy.
An Aristotelian tragedy can be defined as “an imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself”. By combining six separate parts, a piece of work, a play in this instance, can be classified as a tragedy according to Aristotle. The different elements of a tragedy are as followed: having grave human actions and their (serious) consequences, having a beginning, middle, and end, having incidents that are somehow connected as if to create one problem stemming from another leading to an inevitable catastrophe, and finally a tragedy usually ends …show more content…

Throughout the entire play, there are many incidents that connect together, leading to an inevitable catastrophe due to the ‘grave human actions’ that Macbeth makes while trying to fulfill his prophesy as predicted by the trio of witches. Macbeth later suffers the fatal consequences for the deceitfulness he portrays throughout the play. Macbeth and his wife become manipulative and convince King Duncan’s chamberlains to become so intoxicated, they black out. Without any protection, Duncan is stabbed in his sleep by Macbeth; then later, ‘through rage’, Macbeth also murders both of the chamberlains after framing them for Duncan’s murder. In order to protect his prophesy, Macbeth also attempts to have Banquo and his son, Fleance, murdered; However, Fleance is able to escape to safety. Banquo comes back as a ghost and haunts Macbeth, who becomes hysterical- scaring all of the Scottish noblemen at the feast being held that night. Macduff’s (a Scottish nobleman who opposes Macbeth’s succession to the throne) family is murdered due to the command of Macbeth. After discovering their death, MacDuff becomes enraged and sets out to slay Macbeth. Considering how overly confident Macbeth is, he believes he could never be murdered by any man because they were all “born of a woman”; however, Macbeth’s prophesy is meant literally and does not include those born by cesarean section, making

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