--- For Macbeth, he starts off as a valiant hero in combat. He is a captain after all. Macbeth has a high rank in the military in which he could be called a noble character. Macbeth's tragic flaw could be his ambition, as he cannot seem to control it. This eventually leads to the death of Duncan which could be the beginning of a tragic chain of events. For Lady Macbeth, Lady Macbeth establishes herself as a dark character, who has masculine traits more than anything. This could also be her tragic flaw. She relates courage and strength to masculine traits and after the death of Duncan, these traits she always wanted begin to fade away. For example, as Macbeth is off killing Duncan, Lady Macbeth states that she would have killed Duncan herself if he didn't remind her of her father as he slept. This is the first sign of weakness in Lady Macbeth, and it is surely not the last.
--- Macbeth is like a Greek Tragedy in a few ways thus far. We are two acts through the play and all the action happened over one to two days. This is one element of a Greek Tragedy. In act 2, Macbeth's courage is mentioned. For example, in Act 2 Scene 1 as Macbeth is imagining the dagger, he says "Whiles I threat, he lives. Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives." Macbeth is saying the longer he waits to kill Duncan, the more courage he will lose. Also, before Lady Macbeth goes back to plant the daggers on the guards, she calls him a coward and upon her return, she says "My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white." She is saying she would be ashamed to be as cowardly as Macbeth. This would be a focus on psychological traits of some characters.
Macbeth, pressured from a prophecy, disappoint of not being king, and pressure from his own wife has set him on the path of being a tragic hero. He was able to kill a man in cold blood just so he could prosper. This is not the kind of man Macbeth usually is, however he has succumbed to evil pressure and most likely will be punished. (His own mind seems to have started to do that.) Macbeth has passed most of the steps in the tragic hero cycle. He is now on the death/rebirth/transformation stage. King Duncan is dead. The next step in the cycle is reward. As the prophecy says, Macbeth will be king. However if he becomes the new king has yet to be revealed. Lady Macbeth I do not see as a tragic hero. She does not feel bad about killing Duncan. She views it as a worthy sacrifice if her husband is rewarded with the throne. She seems to be too evil to be a tragic hero. She verbally abuses her husband throughout the play. If anything I believe she is the antagonist.
A Greek Tragedy is a play that shows the destruction of the tragic hero. Up to Act 2 it is clearly seen that Macbeth is on the tragic hero cycle. He is from high stature (thane of Cawdor), he is imperfect (easily manipulated), and has a tragic flaw (kills for his own power). If his tragic end is death (which I am willing to lay odds that it will be), then that clinches the fact that this a Greek Tragedy.
Throughout Act II of Macbeth, it has been shown that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have progressed through the tragic hero cycle. The tragic hero cycle first starts off with a noble character or person of high status. Macbeth is the “Thane of Glamis” and he has a wife, Lady Macbeth. The next event of the tragic hero cycle is the tragic flaw. In this stage, the tragic hero’s flaw leads to a crisis. In the beginning of Act II Scene 1, Macbeth’s emotions start to come out when he is addressing the dagger in his hand. He questions whether or not the dagger is real or just a figment of his imagination. This segment of Act II shows how this situation is messing with Macbeth’s mind and how his tragic flaw is being exposed. Although Macbeth is determined to be king, his actions express his “cracks”, or emotions, and his femininity. Macbeth, in Act II Scene 2, decides to kill Duncan. However, this is where Lady Macbeth comes into play. Lady Macbeth’s tragic flaw has to do with her uncontrolled desire to take charge, which is shown throughout her manly actions. Lady Macbeth was the one who devised the plan behind killing the king. She made sure the guards were drugged, so Macbeth could take care of business. Afterwards, Lady Macbeth even planted the daggers with the guards to make it look like they committed the crime. She even pointed out how cowardly the king was and a small amount of water can easily wash off his blood on her hands. Meanwhile, Macbeth nervously said how all the water in the ocean couldn’t get rid of the blood on his hands. Macbeth has shown he has the will to become king by killing Duncan. However, he has a hard time controlling his emotions. Lady Macbeth, on the other hand, has shown she will do whatever it takes to be powerful. She is not afraid to back down and possesses many manly qualities. Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have an uncontrolled ambition, however Lady Macbeth shows more dominance and pride in her actions. Macbeth is like a Greek tragedy because Macbeth’s tragic flaw will lead to his downfall. Greek tragedies focus on a protagonist whose flaws cause them a loss of power, prosperity, or status. Already, Macbeth has made is clear that his emotions take control of him and mess with his mind. As I explained above, in Act II Scene 1, Macbeth’s emotions begin to mess with his mind. He says, “Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as well as to sight? Or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a dales creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?” Basically, he asks if the dagger is real or just a hallucination. Also, at the end of Act II Scene 1, Macbeth says how he was unable to say “Amen” after killing the king, “But wherefore could not I pronounce “Amen?” This shows how there are cracks in Macbeth because of what he is doing. Another example of Macbeth’s emotions is shown when Macduff arrives. In the beginning of Act II Scene 3, Macbeth is noticeable distracted. He does not know how to react to the “news” about the king, so he kills the guards out of fear. This shows how Macbeth is nervous and unable to handle the situation. These events foreshadow that Macbeth’s emotions will cause him to crack under pressure and result poorly.
The tragic hero cycle progressed through act one by showing Macbeth as a character of nobility, as well as Lady Macbeth being noble as well because of their marriage. Near the end of act one Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s tragic flaw is ambition. They both will do what it takes to acquire the throne. The ambition is shown for both by showing how they created a plan to kill the king together. Act II is when the crisis is shown. The crisis is the killing of the king. Their ambition has led to the murder. Next the crisis has led to a chain of events occurring after. The sons of the king fled the country, which resulted in them looking suspicious. Next Macbeth was in the process of being coroneted. Macduff will not attend the coronation because he does not believe that Macbeth should be king. Those events described will lead up to the climax in the next act. Macbeth is like a Greek tragedy because of how Macbeth experiences a chain of guilty feeling about killing the king. He states that not even all the water in the ocean could cleanse him of the deed that he has done. He also does not wish to think about what he has done. In the morning when the king is found, he acts in a way that is not natural. Which displays his guilt for the act he has performed. Macbeth is also susceptible to weakness. He is worried about the murder, but he is constantly taunted by his wife that he is a coward and he could never accomplish such a task. After he kills the king, he did not make it look like the guards had done it because he thought that they had seen him. The idea that they could have seen him makes him fear that their plan will not go through. As well as prohibiting him from framing them. Again Lady Macbeth makes him feel like a coward and goes to frame the guards herself.
In act two, Macbeths tragic flaw is revealed by him showing jealousy and selfishness towards his conflict. He wants to have his prediction of fate to come true but in order for that to happen, him and his wife have to come up with a plan to get rid of Ducan who is currently in line for the thrown. His crisis is he has to murder Duncan but get the guards drunk first to make it look like the blame was on them. Once he kills them, Lady Macbeth soon gets involved in the chain of disasterous events by smeering the blood from the daggers onto the guards. It didn't take too long before many knew about Duncan's murder and how this tragedy effected people started to show. When Macduff had brought Macbeth and Lady Macbeth the news, Macbeth's self discovery shown as he admitted to his crime. He saw that his flaws have caused him a bigger problem than he had before.
Macbeth is like a Greek Tragedy because it's a story that involves a chain of private guilt and punishment. When Macbeth starts to hallucinate, he notices a dagger within arms reach. He started talking to himself by saying "Thou marshall'st me the way that i was going, and such an instrument i was to use". He is tempted to use that specific weapon of choice in order to get rid of Duncan. He also says"Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, and take the present horror from the time, which now suits with it". He knows that the action he is about to take will lead him to consequences and the more he talks about it the more he thinks it's a bad idea. Punishment and guilt are messing with his mind but he strives to be king and in order to do so he must follow his plan the way it was established.
Macbeth begins to move through many stages of the tragic hero cycle in the Acts I and II. Macbeth has grown to become a noble character. He moved his way up in the ranks and became the king of Scotland. Macbeth becoming a leader is part of the tragic hero cycle. He also posses a tragic flaw. His flaw is vaulting ambition. He desperately craves the title of king and he is willing to put aside all his values and morals in order to acquire it. He has no reason to murder the current king other than to take his position in power. This flaw leads to the crisis in the play. The pressure on him to kill the king continually increases by his wife until he eventually murders Duncan. Lady Macbeth is also a tragic hero in the poem. She becomes a noble character when her husband is crowned the king of Scotland. She becomes a wealthy person of status. Her tragic flaw is greed. Throughout Acts I and II she continually desires more power. This leads to the central crisis of the play. She convinces her husband to murder Duncan and blame it on the guards. The two characters are both tragic heroes that are following the progression of the tragic hero cycle.
Macbeth is like a Greek Tragedy through Act II because all the events occur over a short period of time. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's plan to murder the king in their castle took place over one night. Macbeth is then crowned king the following day. The characters are also powerless to their flaws. Macbeth's ambition for power leads him to kill an innocent and beloved leader solely to move up in status. Also, Macbeth is being torn emotionally which is part of a Greek Tragedy. He privately feels guilt of his actions and slowly loses his sanity.
1. The tragic hero cycle is clear in both of the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth throughout Act ll. The tragic hero cycle starts with a noble character. This is true of both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. They are both of high stature and are wealthy. In Act l, Macbeth gets named the thane of Cawdor. This is clearly a high and noble position, making his wife noble as well. The tragic flaw of both of the characters becomes known as well. It can be argued that both characters possess the same tragic flaw of ambition. Macbeth possesses ambition in that he has too much for his character. He is too much of a coward to go through with the things he plans, just like when killing Duncan. He is very fearful after he kills him. His ambition is too much for him to handle. Lady Macbeth on the other hand has too much ambition; she is a manly character and has too much ambition for herself. She thinks of herself as more powerful than she really is and wants to go through with very risky deeds. The characters are in the stage of the tragic hero cycle when their tragic flaw leads to a crisis. They both caused the crisis of having everyone panicked because of the death of their king. Their tragic hero cycles will continue as the play progresses.
2. Up through Act ll, Macbeth has shown its Greek Tragedy characteristics. Elements that a Greek Tragedy contains can clearly be seen in this play. The psychological and ethical attributes of characters, mostly Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, can be seen clearly. These characters are deeply flawed. A flaw of Lady Macbeth shows when she explains how she would kill the baby of hers and Macbeth if it were a coward like him. She says, “ And dashed the brains out.” Clearly, this is not something any human should want to do, therefore showing she is deeply flawed. Another portrayal of Greek Tragedy is how the story shows a chain of events that involve guilt and punishment. Macbeth clearly shows this when he is talking about the killing of Duncan and after he actually does it. His speech before the killing shows how he is descending into madness. This is showing his guilt of what he is about to do. After the killing, Macbeth is talking to Lady Macbeth about washing his hands of the blood. He says, “With all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand?” He is clearly guilty thinking that not even the oceans can wash the blood off of his hands. These two aspects show that Macbeth is a Greek Tragedy.
The tragic hero cycle starts with the introduction of a noble character which in this case is Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Macbeth is seen to be noble because he is the hero in the army that was just fought. He proved himself to try and receive the throne. Then we see Macbeth's tragic in Act 2. His tragic flaw is ambition. There is no real reason to kill Duncan except for his own ambition. We haven't clearly seen Lady Macbeth's tragic flaw yet, however she is very selfish when it comes to being Queen of Scottland. She is persauding her husband to kill someone so they could gain power. The tragic flaws of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth lead to a crisis which is the killing of Duncan. There is no king of Scottland now. The next step is the Tragic Hero Cycle is that the crisis leads to a tragic chain of events and the protagonist is faced with a dilemma which will alter the fate of at least one central character. We haven't seen this yet but this is the next thing to happen in in the cycle. Macbeth is like a Greek Tragedy. First, in a tragedy, it's very dramatic. The reactions of characters and the actions are filled with drama. A Greek Tragedy typically occurs in one location and Macbeth so far as only occur in Scottland. Greek Tragedies focus on the psychological and ethical attributes of characters. The psychological attribute of Macbeth is that he is slowly losing it. The murder of Duncan is making him go crazy. The first sign of this is when he has his vision of the dagger. He says that there is no dagger, it's the murder I'm about to do that's making me think I see one. The second time is after Duncan is killing and he has the blood on his hands in the movie. In the text he says in the Modern Text, "Will all the water in the ocean wash this blood from my hands? No, instead my hands will stain the seas scarlet". Lady Macbeth and Macbeth's ethical attributes are before the murder when they're deciding if killing Duncan is the right or wrong thing to do. Soon we will see the Evolution of Justice which is another characteristic of a Greek Tragedy. We will see if Macbeth's action will get an appropriate consequence.
1. In Macbeth, the tragic hero cycle progresses as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth move into the crisis stage. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth thirst for power, so they kill the king. This starts the descent into the Crisis stage, as Macbeth kills the guards of the king in the hopes of covering his tracks, as well as his lying to those who find out about the assassination. This shows Macbeth is in the midst of a panic over what he did, showing the progression. 2. Macbeth is like a Greek Tragedy in Act II due to the Psychological and Ethical effects it has on Macbeth himself. He has a large monologue in which he states he views a dagger, which he can still pass off as a hallucination due to his mental state, but yet he also attempts to grab it. He also has a major problem with assassinating the king, as he starts hallucinating again after murdering the king, believing he heard voices crying to not sleep, as Macbeth would murder anyone who slept. These show the deterioration of Macbeth's mental state due to his actions, a characteristic of Greek Tragedy.
So far, both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth go through the first few parts of the tragic hero cycle. Both are of noble character, wealthy individuals who are of status among the common people. Each have their own tragic flaws, and in either case, it is their ambition which they cannot control. To this point, neither reach the tragic crisis, although their decision to murder Duncan is leading Macbeth into remorse, a rare example of self discovery before the "reversal of fate".
Macbeth is very close to a Greek Tragedy because it focuses on ethical and of course psychological aspects as demonstrated in the killing of Duncan. The noises heard by Macbeth are related possibly to deep unconscious thoughts or feelings incurred by Duncan's death. The story also involves private guilt and self punishment (though perhaps not yet a chain). When Macbeth kills, he understands the implications and privately feels debilitating remorse, a common characteristic of Greek Tragedy. Another characteristic demonstrated by Macbeth is the simple structure of its characters. Macbeth is supposed to be valorous and brave, but through his murder of Duncan becomes quite the opposite. Shakespeare does this to illustrate the clear effect his fatal flaw and resulting actions had upon him.
1. In Act 2 of Macbeth, the tragic hero cycle starts off with how the character is towards other characters and then we find out their tragic flaw. The tragic cycle goes through a number of events starting with a tragic chain of events, a reversal of fortune, and a catharsis. These events lead to the tragic ending. In Act 1, we see Macbeth as a noble man. In the beginning of the Act we see that Macbeth is brave and can change his own fate. Then later on during Act 1, we find out that he is even more noble to the people for example his friendship with the witches. The ways the witches praise him show the readers that he is a high leader and knowing what we know, he will soon be king. In Act 1, Macbeth knows that in order for him to be king, he must kill Duncan. When Macbeth states “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition”, we come across his tragic flaw. He admits that only his ambition will get him through killing Duncan and that ambition rushes people towards doing things they may not want to do. This tragic flaw leads to the tragic chain of events with how he goes away with killing Duncan. The killing of Duncan goes up until Act 2 where we also encounter Lady Macbeth’s tragic flaw. Her standing comes from the fact that she is married to Macbeth. We uncover Lady Macbeth’s tragic flaw of desperately wanting her husband to have all the power however he is too much of a coward, in her words, to make through with the plan of killing Duncan. She then makes a plan herself to kill Duncan so that her husband can hold the power. 2. Macbeth is a Greek tragedy because the main character, Macbeth, has a tragic flaw who is also the hero and the man who has the highest power will lose his control. Macbeth shows his fatal flaws in Act 2; jealously and greed. Macbeth states “The prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down or else o’erleap, for in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires: let not light see my black and deep desires. The eye wink at the hand, yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see”. This quote explains that Macbeth is telling the reader that he is planning to do something bad in order to achieve something (become king). Planning evil demonstrates how Macbeth is a tragic flaw and that the king will lose power in order for Macbeth to achieve it.
We see the progression of the tragic Hero for both Macbeth and lady Macbeth unravel during two main parts. One, is when Macbeths ambition intensifies. He goes with the plan of the killing of the king. Than, unexpectedly, his ambition increases the plan and he ends up killing the guards who were suppose To be framed. This builds up The tragic hero cycle for Macbeth. Lady Macbeth has the biggest influence over Macbeth and making sure he does not coward out. She is the evil mastermind behind the plan and will stop at nothing to get what she wants. Her wickedness of having no remorse compared to Macbeth is a major factor also.
Macbeth is the protagonist. In the Greek tragedies, the protagnosit is a man of importance and outstanding personal qualities just like Macbeth. In act two, we see how greatly Macbeth cares for others and how much sympathy he has. He loves power but does not want to be evil In getting it. Lady Macbeth is his personal failing that he cannot deal with. Therefore, she will be the main cause of his downfall. For example, macbeth hated the fact that he killed An annocent man and dos not follow through with the oroginal plan. Lady Macbeth in ease finished the deed while Macbeth was still Terrorized or what he has done. Reflecting the Greek tragedy, the protagonist is a noble man whome will be doomed from an uncontrolled person or thing.
The downfall of the tragic hero cycle for Macbeth all began with the prophecies predicted by the three witches. Had they not told him the future, Macbeth would not be as anxious as he was when he wanted to be the king. Macbeth began to do things he regretted, such as killing the current king. After this heinous act, a change occurred in Macbeth's character, causing him to become paranoid, making him believe that the guards saw him, causing him to kill the both of them. Lady Macbeth's progression through the tragic hero cycle proved that she is loyal and devoted to her husband because she would do anything to fulfill the witches' prophecies about what Macbeth would become in the future. In Act 1 Scene 5 when she is introduced to the audience, her famous raven speech where she calls on spiritis proves that she is strong but willing to sacrifice herself for her husband.
Act II of Macbeth resembles a Greek Tragedy in the way that Macbeth commits murder to get what he wants. The prophecies given to Macbeth by the three witches brought him to the point that his curiosity got the better of him, so he took the lives of three people into his hands, just to get what he wanted. The killings have took a mental toll on Macbeth, nearly driving him insane that he began to hear things in the cellar after he had killed Duncan. When Macbeth took the lives of two more innocent people, it was almost certain to predict that his demise.
The cycle has ended its hero's happy beginnings and now is in to the hero's insulant pride where Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are now to the point of carrying out their deeds to achieve the prophecies, thus upsetting the flow originally determined by fate. This transitions into the third stage as the killing of Duncan has happened and the sons flee to escape the same fate. The Macbeths have upset the balance of fate and will eventually pay the price for their deed.
Macbeth is like a Greek Tragedy through act II because of its use of a tragic hero that commits some sort of action to progress his own self being whether social, political, or emotional but ends with a various negative outcome for the hero. Macbeth commits the act of killing the king to thus become the king, without anyone actually knowing he did it (except Lady Macbeth). This was done by framing the guards for Duncan's death although it raises suspicion among Mcduff as said in the text. The outcome will most likely have something negative happening to Macbeth.
---The tragic hero cycle starts with Macbeth being thane and since Lady Macbeth is his wife they both are people of status. Macbeth's tragic flaw is he does not have self control. He constantly is giving into this idea of fate instead of trying to change it. He also allows Lady Macbeth to push him around which leads to the Crisis. Lady Macbeths tragic flaw is she's hungry for power and has no mercy in getting it. This leads to her manipulating her own husband to become queen. Then the crisis starts when Macbeth kills Duncan and everyone finds out he is dead. Now Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have to hide the fact they killed the king. --- In the play we see the psychological effect these events are causing on Macbeth. He is slowly being driven into madness. At on point he sees a dagger that is not there and tries to reach out and take it. We also see his mental state has decayed when being interrogated after Duncan's death. He seems withdrawn almost. Macbeth also shows guilt when washing the blood off his hands. He says, "All the water in the ocean cant was the blood off his hands."
The progression of the tragic hero cycle is marked by the transition from Act I to Act II in which Macbeth's tragic flaw becomes evident. Macbeth has no reason to kill Duncan except for his own ambitions. He is obviously troubled by this, as he is a very emotional person and feministic, as the Lady Macbeth incessently reminds him. Evidence of his troubles are also shown in his drift of consciousness about the dagger, a trip that calls into question his sanity. These components of his tragic flaw are ploys that will inevitably drag him down, particularly his weakness. He commits the murder of the King, and confesses to killing the guards under pressure later. Macbeth is uncomfortable with the route he is on, and although he has tried to get out of it the cycle, his flaw of ambition traps him in. Lady Macbeth also suffers a tragic flaw that is progressing the plotline, which is her infatuation and lust for power. In her lust, she is putting down all that she deems below her - even her husband. It will inevitably bring not only her down, but her husband with her. Her hubris will be her demise. So far, Macbeth is like a Greek tragedy in that most of these progressions of the plot have occurred in one location, over the course of 24 hours. The focus has been mostly on the psychological and ethical attributes of both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Shakespeare has begun to craft the outline of their worst flaws, setting them up for disaster (making them predictable on purpose). From here, one can predict that there will be an evolution of justice, as well as a chain of guilt beginning to unfold as Macbeth commits these selfish acts.
The tragic hero cycle for Macbeth and Lady Macbeth is very similar. Macbeth is a powerful main in the court system and soon becomes more powerful by becoming the king. Lady Macbeth is powerful because she is Macbeth's wife which makes her a queen. They are both "noble" and leaders making them wealthy by default. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's tragic flaw is ambition. His desire for power and a high position in the court consumes him. Lady Macbeth always wants nothing by power and proves she will stop at nothing to help her husband get this when she helps him kill the king. She continually scrutinizes Macbeth trying to motivate him to kill the king so they can have what they "deserve", power, wealth, and status. He is willing to give up anything for this which is proven when he not only kills Duncan, the man standing his way to power, by the two knights guarding his chamber. He was not supposed to kill the knights, he was supposed to frame them but he went ahead and killed them anyway. This shows how Macbeth cannot control his tragic flaw. The structure of a Greek Tragedy is action occurs over a short period of time, occurs in one location, and the story involves a chain of private guilt and punishment. All of these occur in Macbeth. In only one act, three people were murdered in one very small area. We see the story involves guilt when Macbeth sees the floating dagger. He is already guilty over the murder he is about to commit and is clearly weighing on him. When he thinks he sees the dagger it is because he is so worried about what will happen that he is already punishing himself with guilt. This shows how Macbeth is similar to a Greek Tragedy.
At the end of Act 2, Macbeth has hit the tragic chain of events section of being a tragic hero. It has been shown through his character that his tragic flaw is his ambition to have as much power as possible. His ambitious attitude toward gaining power leads to his crisis which is when he kills Duncan with the daggers. The place where he is in right now is the chain of events. The first event happens when he decides to kill the two guards thinking they witnessed the murder but it was just his guilt talking. Another event that will take a tragic turn is when he decides he is scared of Banquo and wants to kill him to earn even more power for himself. Lady Macbeth is being shown as a tragic hero and right now she is at the crisis stage of the cycle. She has the same tragic flaw as Macbeth but she has more ambition to get the job done. Her crisis is when she decides to kill Duncan herself because Macbeth decides it would be wrong. Her crisis is avoided though when Macbeth kills Duncan himself not leaving the job to her.
Macbeth is like a Greek Tragedy in this act because of the guilt that Macbeth experiences after he kills Duncan. One aspect of a Greek tragedy is the chain of private guilt that a character experiences. Macbeth has so much guilt after he kills Duncan that he even kills the two guards because of the guilt that he has built up. Another aspect that makes this like a Greek tragedy is that the action takes place primarily in one place. The play is mostly set around Macbeth’s house for the murders and where the witches take form along with other key events. Another key aspect is that all the action so far has occurred over a small period of time. It has only been about a day and half when the reader is finished with Act 2. In this period of time, Macbeth has killed Duncan, the two guards, has been named king, and has thoughts about what to do with Banquo. The last aspect that makes this play like a Greek tragedy is how Shakespeare focuses in on the psychological feelings of the characters. He gives Macbeth a lot of guilt and he even uses this to make Lady Macbeth seem less moral than her husband is.
--- at he begining of the play Macbeth already has a status and that is Thane of Cawdor and this would give lady macbeth a higher up status also because she is the lady. Then we come across their tragic flaw which would be their thirst for power and control which causes both of them to do anything to become the king and queen even if it involved murder. This is eventually what happens because he ended up murdering Duncan with the help of lady Macbeth to become the next king even though he has to live with the guilt and she just tells him to get over it. The crisis is that he did murder duncan.
--- Macbeth is like a Greek Tragedy because Macbeth is showing a lot of sorrow and shows a lot of regret already with his decision saying that his hands would turn the whole ocean red, and they can not simply be washed away. He is suffering because of his tragic flaw and has to live with this and realize he may of made a huge mistake.
1. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth go through the first few parts of the tragic hero cycle. They are both of noble character, wealthy individuals who are of status among the common people. Each have their own tragic flaws, and in either case. So far neither of them have reached the tragic crisis, but their decision to murder Duncan is leading Macbeth into remorse.
2. Macbeth is like a Greek tragedy because Macbeth’s tragic flaw will lead to his downfall. At the end of Act II Scene 1, Macbeth says how he was unable to say “Amen” after killing the king, “But wherefore could not I pronounce “Amen?” This shows how there are cracks in Macbeth because of what he is doing. These events foreshadow that Macbeth’s emotions will cause him to crack under pressure and result poorly in his plan to control his fate.
--Macbeth and Lady Macbeth start out with a similar role in the beginning of Act 1 and Act 2 after Lady Macbeth draws Macbeth into her evil plan. She does whatever she can to convince her husband Macbeth to kill the king so he could be ahead and overpower everyone else. Soon after when he is convinced by her the killing is done and the shame hits Macbeth more than Lady Macbeth. However the guilt overcomes Lady Macbeth later on. Within this passage, tons of guilt is felt between these two character and they realize that what they have done is done and they can not go back and change/fix things. I began to see more masculinity within Lady Macbeth and more femininity within Macbeth, the reason I say this is began of how they react to things and there way of speech.
--Macbeth is like a greek tragedy because after he does the killing he overcomes scarce and fear and guilt. He talks to himself and repeats over why he would do something like this and what will happen to him because of what he has done and will the plan work out how he wanted it to.
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth were people of status before the play even started, and have gained nobility and wealth throughout. They both have clearly distinguished flaws as well. Though the push mainly came from Lady Macbeth, Macbeth is motivated by ambition and power enough to kill Duncan and put himself in line to become King of Scotland. After Duncan was killed and everyone is gathered to figure out what to do, Macbeth owns up to killing the guards, but plays it off. The crisis is that Macbeth is beginning to show signs that he's losing his cool in stressful situations and is starting to crack, while Lady Macbeth is still quite thirsty for power and status. My guess is that this will cause problems later in the play. 2. Macbeth is like a Greek tragedy because Macbeth’s tragic flaw will lead to his downfall. Greek tragedies focus on a protagonist whose flaws cause them to lose status and wealth. Macbeth has made is clear that his emotions take control of him and influence his actions. In Act II Scene 1, Macbeth says, “Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as well as to sight? Or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a dales creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?” He is uncertain if the dagger is real or just a hallucination. Also, at the end of Act II Scene 1, Macbeth says how he was unable to say “Amen” after killing the king, “But wherefore could not I pronounce “Amen?” This shows how there are cracks in Macbeth's psyche because of what he is doing. Another example of Macbeth’s emotions is shown when Macduff arrives. In the beginning of Act II Scene 3, Macbeth is noticeable distracted. He does not know how to react to the widespread “news” about the king, so he kills the guards out of fear. This shows how Macbeth is nervous and unable to handle the situation. These events foreshadow that Macbeth’s emotions will cause him to crack under pressure.
--- For Macbeth, he starts off as a valiant hero in combat. He is a captain after all. Macbeth has a high rank in the military in which he could be called a noble character. Macbeth's tragic flaw could be his ambition, as he cannot seem to control it. This eventually leads to the death of Duncan which could be the beginning of a tragic chain of events. For Lady Macbeth, Lady Macbeth establishes herself as a dark character, who has masculine traits more than anything. This could also be her tragic flaw. She relates courage and strength to masculine traits and after the death of Duncan, these traits she always wanted begin to fade away. For example, as Macbeth is off killing Duncan, Lady Macbeth states that she would have killed Duncan herself if he didn't remind her of her father as he slept. This is the first sign of weakness in Lady Macbeth, and it is surely not the last.
ReplyDelete--- Macbeth is like a Greek Tragedy in a few ways thus far. We are two acts through the play and all the action happened over one to two days. This is one element of a Greek Tragedy. In act 2, Macbeth's courage is mentioned. For example, in Act 2 Scene 1 as Macbeth is imagining the dagger, he says "Whiles I threat, he lives. Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives." Macbeth is saying the longer he waits to kill Duncan, the more courage he will lose. Also, before Lady Macbeth goes back to plant the daggers on the guards, she calls him a coward and upon her return, she says "My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white." She is saying she would be ashamed to be as cowardly as Macbeth. This would be a focus on psychological traits of some characters.
Macbeth, pressured from a prophecy, disappoint of not being king, and pressure from his own wife has set him on the path of being a tragic hero. He was able to kill a man in cold blood just so he could prosper. This is not the kind of man Macbeth usually is, however he has succumbed to evil pressure and most likely will be punished. (His own mind seems to have started to do that.) Macbeth has passed most of the steps in the tragic hero cycle. He is now on the death/rebirth/transformation stage. King Duncan is dead. The next step in the cycle is reward. As the prophecy says, Macbeth will be king. However if he becomes the new king has yet to be revealed. Lady Macbeth I do not see as a tragic hero. She does not feel bad about killing Duncan. She views it as a worthy sacrifice if her husband is rewarded with the throne. She seems to be too evil to be a tragic hero. She verbally abuses her husband throughout the play. If anything I believe she is the antagonist.
ReplyDeleteA Greek Tragedy is a play that shows the destruction of the tragic hero. Up to Act 2 it is clearly seen that Macbeth is on the tragic hero cycle. He is from high stature (thane of Cawdor), he is imperfect (easily manipulated), and has a tragic flaw (kills for his own power). If his tragic end is death (which I am willing to lay odds that it will be), then that clinches the fact that this a Greek Tragedy.
Throughout Act II of Macbeth, it has been shown that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have progressed through the tragic hero cycle. The tragic hero cycle first starts off with a noble character or person of high status. Macbeth is the “Thane of Glamis” and he has a wife, Lady Macbeth. The next event of the tragic hero cycle is the tragic flaw. In this stage, the tragic hero’s flaw leads to a crisis. In the beginning of Act II Scene 1, Macbeth’s emotions start to come out when he is addressing the dagger in his hand. He questions whether or not the dagger is real or just a figment of his imagination. This segment of Act II shows how this situation is messing with Macbeth’s mind and how his tragic flaw is being exposed. Although Macbeth is determined to be king, his actions express his “cracks”, or emotions, and his femininity. Macbeth, in Act II Scene 2, decides to kill Duncan. However, this is where Lady Macbeth comes into play. Lady Macbeth’s tragic flaw has to do with her uncontrolled desire to take charge, which is shown throughout her manly actions. Lady Macbeth was the one who devised the plan behind killing the king. She made sure the guards were drugged, so Macbeth could take care of business. Afterwards, Lady Macbeth even planted the daggers with the guards to make it look like they committed the crime. She even pointed out how cowardly the king was and a small amount of water can easily wash off his blood on her hands. Meanwhile, Macbeth nervously said how all the water in the ocean couldn’t get rid of the blood on his hands. Macbeth has shown he has the will to become king by killing Duncan. However, he has a hard time controlling his emotions. Lady Macbeth, on the other hand, has shown she will do whatever it takes to be powerful. She is not afraid to back down and possesses many manly qualities. Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have an uncontrolled ambition, however Lady Macbeth shows more dominance and pride in her actions.
ReplyDeleteMacbeth is like a Greek tragedy because Macbeth’s tragic flaw will lead to his downfall. Greek tragedies focus on a protagonist whose flaws cause them a loss of power, prosperity, or status. Already, Macbeth has made is clear that his emotions take control of him and mess with his mind. As I explained above, in Act II Scene 1, Macbeth’s emotions begin to mess with his mind. He says, “Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as well as to sight? Or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a dales creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?” Basically, he asks if the dagger is real or just a hallucination. Also, at the end of Act II Scene 1, Macbeth says how he was unable to say “Amen” after killing the king, “But wherefore could not I pronounce “Amen?” This shows how there are cracks in Macbeth because of what he is doing. Another example of Macbeth’s emotions is shown when Macduff arrives. In the beginning of Act II Scene 3, Macbeth is noticeable distracted. He does not know how to react to the “news” about the king, so he kills the guards out of fear. This shows how Macbeth is nervous and unable to handle the situation. These events foreshadow that Macbeth’s emotions will cause him to crack under pressure and result poorly.
The tragic hero cycle progressed through act one by showing Macbeth as a character of nobility, as well as Lady Macbeth being noble as well because of their marriage. Near the end of act one Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s tragic flaw is ambition. They both will do what it takes to acquire the throne. The ambition is shown for both by showing how they created a plan to kill the king together. Act II is when the crisis is shown. The crisis is the killing of the king. Their ambition has led to the murder. Next the crisis has led to a chain of events occurring after. The sons of the king fled the country, which resulted in them looking suspicious. Next Macbeth was in the process of being coroneted. Macduff will not attend the coronation because he does not believe that Macbeth should be king. Those events described will lead up to the climax in the next act.
ReplyDeleteMacbeth is like a Greek tragedy because of how Macbeth experiences a chain of guilty feeling about killing the king. He states that not even all the water in the ocean could cleanse him of the deed that he has done. He also does not wish to think about what he has done. In the morning when the king is found, he acts in a way that is not natural. Which displays his guilt for the act he has performed. Macbeth is also susceptible to weakness. He is worried about the murder, but he is constantly taunted by his wife that he is a coward and he could never accomplish such a task. After he kills the king, he did not make it look like the guards had done it because he thought that they had seen him. The idea that they could have seen him makes him fear that their plan will not go through. As well as prohibiting him from framing them. Again Lady Macbeth makes him feel like a coward and goes to frame the guards herself.
In act two, Macbeths tragic flaw is revealed by him showing jealousy and selfishness towards his conflict. He wants to have his prediction of fate to come true but in order for that to happen, him and his wife have to come up with a plan to get rid of Ducan who is currently in line for the thrown. His crisis is he has to murder Duncan but get the guards drunk first to make it look like the blame was on them. Once he kills them, Lady Macbeth soon gets involved in the chain of disasterous events by smeering the blood from the daggers onto the guards. It didn't take too long before many knew about Duncan's murder and how this tragedy effected people started to show. When Macduff had brought Macbeth and Lady Macbeth the news, Macbeth's self discovery shown as he admitted to his crime. He saw that his flaws have caused him a bigger problem than he had before.
ReplyDeleteMacbeth is like a Greek Tragedy because it's a story that involves a chain of private guilt and punishment. When Macbeth starts to hallucinate, he notices a dagger within arms reach. He started talking to himself by saying "Thou marshall'st me the way that i was going, and such an instrument i was to use". He is tempted to use that specific weapon of choice in order to get rid of Duncan. He also says"Thy very stones prate of my whereabout, and take the present horror from the time, which now suits with it". He knows that the action he is about to take will lead him to consequences and the more he talks about it the more he thinks it's a bad idea. Punishment and guilt are messing with his mind but he strives to be king and in order to do so he must follow his plan the way it was established.
Macbeth begins to move through many stages of the tragic hero cycle in the Acts I and II. Macbeth has grown to become a noble character. He moved his way up in the ranks and became the king of Scotland. Macbeth becoming a leader is part of the tragic hero cycle. He also posses a tragic flaw. His flaw is vaulting ambition. He desperately craves the title of king and he is willing to put aside all his values and morals in order to acquire it. He has no reason to murder the current king other than to take his position in power. This flaw leads to the crisis in the play. The pressure on him to kill the king continually increases by his wife until he eventually murders Duncan. Lady Macbeth is also a tragic hero in the poem. She becomes a noble character when her husband is crowned the king of Scotland. She becomes a wealthy person of status. Her tragic flaw is greed. Throughout Acts I and II she continually desires more power. This leads to the central crisis of the play. She convinces her husband to murder Duncan and blame it on the guards. The two characters are both tragic heroes that are following the progression of the tragic hero cycle.
ReplyDeleteMacbeth is like a Greek Tragedy through Act II because all the events occur over a short period of time. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's plan to murder the king in their castle took place over one night. Macbeth is then crowned king the following day. The characters are also powerless to their flaws. Macbeth's ambition for power leads him to kill an innocent and beloved leader solely to move up in status. Also, Macbeth is being torn emotionally which is part of a Greek Tragedy. He privately feels guilt of his actions and slowly loses his sanity.
1. The tragic hero cycle is clear in both of the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth throughout Act ll. The tragic hero cycle starts with a noble character. This is true of both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. They are both of high stature and are wealthy. In Act l, Macbeth gets named the thane of Cawdor. This is clearly a high and noble position, making his wife noble as well. The tragic flaw of both of the characters becomes known as well. It can be argued that both characters possess the same tragic flaw of ambition. Macbeth possesses ambition in that he has too much for his character. He is too much of a coward to go through with the things he plans, just like when killing Duncan. He is very fearful after he kills him. His ambition is too much for him to handle. Lady Macbeth on the other hand has too much ambition; she is a manly character and has too much ambition for herself. She thinks of herself as more powerful than she really is and wants to go through with very risky deeds. The characters are in the stage of the tragic hero cycle when their tragic flaw leads to a crisis. They both caused the crisis of having everyone panicked because of the death of their king. Their tragic hero cycles will continue as the play progresses.
ReplyDelete2. Up through Act ll, Macbeth has shown its Greek Tragedy characteristics. Elements that a Greek Tragedy contains can clearly be seen in this play. The psychological and ethical attributes of characters, mostly Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, can be seen clearly. These characters are deeply flawed. A flaw of Lady Macbeth shows when she explains how she would kill the baby of hers and Macbeth if it were a coward like him. She says, “ And dashed the brains out.” Clearly, this is not something any human should want to do, therefore showing she is deeply flawed. Another portrayal of Greek Tragedy is how the story shows a chain of events that involve guilt and punishment. Macbeth clearly shows this when he is talking about the killing of Duncan and after he actually does it. His speech before the killing shows how he is descending into madness. This is showing his guilt of what he is about to do. After the killing, Macbeth is talking to Lady Macbeth about washing his hands of the blood. He says, “With all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand?” He is clearly guilty thinking that not even the oceans can wash the blood off of his hands. These two aspects show that Macbeth is a Greek Tragedy.
The tragic hero cycle starts with the introduction of a noble character which in this case is Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Macbeth is seen to be noble because he is the hero in the army that was just fought. He proved himself to try and receive the throne. Then we see Macbeth's tragic in Act 2. His tragic flaw is ambition. There is no real reason to kill Duncan except for his own ambition. We haven't clearly seen Lady Macbeth's tragic flaw yet, however she is very selfish when it comes to being Queen of Scottland. She is persauding her husband to kill someone so they could gain power. The tragic flaws of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth lead to a crisis which is the killing of Duncan. There is no king of Scottland now. The next step is the Tragic Hero Cycle is that the crisis leads to a tragic chain of events and the protagonist is faced with a dilemma which will alter the fate of at least one central character. We haven't seen this yet but this is the next thing to happen in in the cycle.
ReplyDeleteMacbeth is like a Greek Tragedy. First, in a tragedy, it's very dramatic. The reactions of characters and the actions are filled with drama. A Greek Tragedy typically occurs in one location and Macbeth so far as only occur in Scottland. Greek Tragedies focus on the psychological and ethical attributes of characters. The psychological attribute of Macbeth is that he is slowly losing it. The murder of Duncan is making him go crazy. The first sign of this is when he has his vision of the dagger. He says that there is no dagger, it's the murder I'm about to do that's making me think I see one. The second time is after Duncan is killing and he has the blood on his hands in the movie. In the text he says in the Modern Text, "Will all the water in the ocean wash this blood from my hands? No, instead my hands will stain the seas scarlet". Lady Macbeth and Macbeth's ethical attributes are before the murder when they're deciding if killing Duncan is the right or wrong thing to do. Soon we will see the Evolution of Justice which is another characteristic of a Greek Tragedy. We will see if Macbeth's action will get an appropriate consequence.
1. In Macbeth, the tragic hero cycle progresses as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth move into the crisis stage. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth thirst for power, so they kill the king. This starts the descent into the Crisis stage, as Macbeth kills the guards of the king in the hopes of covering his tracks, as well as his lying to those who find out about the assassination. This shows Macbeth is in the midst of a panic over what he did, showing the progression.
ReplyDelete2. Macbeth is like a Greek Tragedy in Act II due to the Psychological and Ethical effects it has on Macbeth himself. He has a large monologue in which he states he views a dagger, which he can still pass off as a hallucination due to his mental state, but yet he also attempts to grab it. He also has a major problem with assassinating the king, as he starts hallucinating again after murdering the king, believing he heard voices crying to not sleep, as Macbeth would murder anyone who slept. These show the deterioration of Macbeth's mental state due to his actions, a characteristic of Greek Tragedy.
So far, both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth go through the first few parts of the tragic hero cycle. Both are of noble character, wealthy individuals who are of status among the common people. Each have their own tragic flaws, and in either case, it is their ambition which they cannot control. To this point, neither reach the tragic crisis, although their decision to murder Duncan is leading Macbeth into remorse, a rare example of self discovery before the "reversal of fate".
ReplyDeleteMacbeth is very close to a Greek Tragedy because it focuses on ethical and of course psychological aspects as demonstrated in the killing of Duncan. The noises heard by Macbeth are related possibly to deep unconscious thoughts or feelings incurred by Duncan's death. The story also involves private guilt and self punishment (though perhaps not yet a chain). When Macbeth kills, he understands the implications and privately feels debilitating remorse, a common characteristic of Greek Tragedy. Another characteristic demonstrated by Macbeth is the simple structure of its characters. Macbeth is supposed to be valorous and brave, but through his murder of Duncan becomes quite the opposite. Shakespeare does this to illustrate the clear effect his fatal flaw and resulting actions had upon him.
1. In Act 2 of Macbeth, the tragic hero cycle starts off with how the character is towards other characters and then we find out their tragic flaw. The tragic cycle goes through a number of events starting with a tragic chain of events, a reversal of fortune, and a catharsis. These events lead to the tragic ending. In Act 1, we see Macbeth as a noble man. In the beginning of the Act we see that Macbeth is brave and can change his own fate. Then later on during Act 1, we find out that he is even more noble to the people for example his friendship with the witches. The ways the witches praise him show the readers that he is a high leader and knowing what we know, he will soon be king. In Act 1, Macbeth knows that in order for him to be king, he must kill Duncan. When Macbeth states “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition”, we come across his tragic flaw. He admits that only his ambition will get him through killing Duncan and that ambition rushes people towards doing things they may not want to do. This tragic flaw leads to the tragic chain of events with how he goes away with killing Duncan. The killing of Duncan goes up until Act 2 where we also encounter Lady Macbeth’s tragic flaw. Her standing comes from the fact that she is married to Macbeth. We uncover Lady Macbeth’s tragic flaw of desperately wanting her husband to have all the power however he is too much of a coward, in her words, to make through with the plan of killing Duncan. She then makes a plan herself to kill Duncan so that her husband can hold the power.
ReplyDelete2. Macbeth is a Greek tragedy because the main character, Macbeth, has a tragic flaw who is also the hero and the man who has the highest power will lose his control. Macbeth shows his fatal flaws in Act 2; jealously and greed. Macbeth states “The prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down or else o’erleap, for in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires: let not light see my black and deep desires. The eye wink at the hand, yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see”. This quote explains that Macbeth is telling the reader that he is planning to do something bad in order to achieve something (become king). Planning evil demonstrates how Macbeth is a tragic flaw and that the king will lose power in order for Macbeth to achieve it.
We see the progression of the tragic
ReplyDeleteHero for both Macbeth and lady Macbeth unravel during two main parts. One, is when Macbeths ambition intensifies. He goes with the plan of the killing of the king. Than, unexpectedly, his ambition increases the plan and he ends up killing the guards who were suppose
To be framed. This builds up
The tragic hero cycle for Macbeth. Lady Macbeth has the biggest influence over Macbeth and making sure he does not coward out. She is the evil mastermind behind the plan and will stop at nothing to get what she wants. Her wickedness of having no remorse compared to Macbeth is a major factor also.
Macbeth is the protagonist. In the Greek tragedies, the protagnosit is a man of importance and outstanding personal qualities just like Macbeth. In act two, we see how greatly Macbeth cares for others and how much sympathy he has. He loves power but does not want to be evil
In getting it. Lady Macbeth is his personal failing that he cannot deal with. Therefore, she will be the main cause of his downfall. For example, macbeth hated the fact that he killed
An annocent man and dos not follow through with the oroginal plan. Lady Macbeth in ease finished the deed while Macbeth was still
Terrorized or what he has done. Reflecting the Greek tragedy, the protagonist is a noble man whome will be doomed from an uncontrolled person or thing.
The downfall of the tragic hero cycle for Macbeth all began with the prophecies predicted by the three witches. Had they not told him the future, Macbeth would not be as anxious as he was when he wanted to be the king. Macbeth began to do things he regretted, such as killing the current king. After this heinous act, a change occurred in Macbeth's character, causing him to become paranoid, making him believe that the guards saw him, causing him to kill the both of them. Lady Macbeth's progression through the tragic hero cycle proved that she is loyal and devoted to her husband because she would do anything to fulfill the witches' prophecies about what Macbeth would become in the future. In Act 1 Scene 5 when she is introduced to the audience, her famous raven speech where she calls on spiritis proves that she is strong but willing to sacrifice herself for her husband.
ReplyDeleteAct II of Macbeth resembles a Greek Tragedy in the way that Macbeth commits murder to get what he wants. The prophecies given to Macbeth by the three witches brought him to the point that his curiosity got the better of him, so he took the lives of three people into his hands, just to get what he wanted. The killings have took a mental toll on Macbeth, nearly driving him insane that he began to hear things in the cellar after he had killed Duncan. When Macbeth took the lives of two more innocent people, it was almost certain to predict that his demise.
The cycle has ended its hero's happy beginnings and now is in to the hero's insulant pride where Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are now to the point of carrying out their deeds to achieve the prophecies, thus upsetting the flow originally determined by fate. This transitions into the third stage as the killing of Duncan has happened and the sons flee to escape the same fate. The Macbeths have upset the balance of fate and will eventually pay the price for their deed.
ReplyDeleteMacbeth is like a Greek Tragedy through act II because of its use of a tragic hero that commits some sort of action to progress his own self being whether social, political, or emotional but ends with a various negative outcome for the hero. Macbeth commits the act of killing the king to thus become the king, without anyone actually knowing he did it (except Lady Macbeth). This was done by framing the guards for Duncan's death although it raises suspicion among Mcduff as said in the text. The outcome will most likely have something negative happening to Macbeth.
---The tragic hero cycle starts with Macbeth being thane and since Lady Macbeth is his wife they both are people of status. Macbeth's tragic flaw is he does not have self control. He constantly is giving into this idea of fate instead of trying to change it. He also allows Lady Macbeth to push him around which leads to the Crisis. Lady Macbeths tragic flaw is she's hungry for power and has no mercy in getting it. This leads to her manipulating her own husband to become queen. Then the crisis starts when Macbeth kills Duncan and everyone finds out he is dead. Now Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have to hide the fact they killed the king.
ReplyDelete--- In the play we see the psychological effect these events are causing on Macbeth. He is slowly being driven into madness. At on point he sees a dagger that is not there and tries to reach out and take it. We also see his mental state has decayed when being interrogated after Duncan's death. He seems withdrawn almost. Macbeth also shows guilt when washing the blood off his hands. He says, "All the water in the ocean cant was the blood off his hands."
The progression of the tragic hero cycle is marked by the transition from Act I to Act II in which Macbeth's tragic flaw becomes evident. Macbeth has no reason to kill Duncan except for his own ambitions. He is obviously troubled by this, as he is a very emotional person and feministic, as the Lady Macbeth incessently reminds him. Evidence of his troubles are also shown in his drift of consciousness about the dagger, a trip that calls into question his sanity. These components of his tragic flaw are ploys that will inevitably drag him down, particularly his weakness. He commits the murder of the King, and confesses to killing the guards under pressure later. Macbeth is uncomfortable with the route he is on, and although he has tried to get out of it the cycle, his flaw of ambition traps him in. Lady Macbeth also suffers a tragic flaw that is progressing the plotline, which is her infatuation and lust for power. In her lust, she is putting down all that she deems below her - even her husband. It will inevitably bring not only her down, but her husband with her. Her hubris will be her demise.
ReplyDeleteSo far, Macbeth is like a Greek tragedy in that most of these progressions of the plot have occurred in one location, over the course of 24 hours. The focus has been mostly on the psychological and ethical attributes of both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Shakespeare has begun to craft the outline of their worst flaws, setting them up for disaster (making them predictable on purpose). From here, one can predict that there will be an evolution of justice, as well as a chain of guilt beginning to unfold as Macbeth commits these selfish acts.
The tragic hero cycle for Macbeth and Lady Macbeth is very similar. Macbeth is a powerful main in the court system and soon becomes more powerful by becoming the king. Lady Macbeth is powerful because she is Macbeth's wife which makes her a queen. They are both "noble" and leaders making them wealthy by default. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's tragic flaw is ambition. His desire for power and a high position in the court consumes him. Lady Macbeth always wants nothing by power and proves she will stop at nothing to help her husband get this when she helps him kill the king. She continually scrutinizes Macbeth trying to motivate him to kill the king so they can have what they "deserve", power, wealth, and status. He is willing to give up anything for this which is proven when he not only kills Duncan, the man standing his way to power, by the two knights guarding his chamber. He was not supposed to kill the knights, he was supposed to frame them but he went ahead and killed them anyway. This shows how Macbeth cannot control his tragic flaw.
ReplyDeleteThe structure of a Greek Tragedy is action occurs over a short period of time, occurs in one location, and the story involves a chain of private guilt and punishment. All of these occur in Macbeth. In only one act, three people were murdered in one very small area. We see the story involves guilt when Macbeth sees the floating dagger. He is already guilty over the murder he is about to commit and is clearly weighing on him. When he thinks he sees the dagger it is because he is so worried about what will happen that he is already punishing himself with guilt. This shows how Macbeth is similar to a Greek Tragedy.
At the end of Act 2, Macbeth has hit the tragic chain of events section of being a tragic hero. It has been shown through his character that his tragic flaw is his ambition to have as much power as possible. His ambitious attitude toward gaining power leads to his crisis which is when he kills Duncan with the daggers. The place where he is in right now is the chain of events. The first event happens when he decides to kill the two guards thinking they witnessed the murder but it was just his guilt talking. Another event that will take a tragic turn is when he decides he is scared of Banquo and wants to kill him to earn even more power for himself. Lady Macbeth is being shown as a tragic hero and right now she is at the crisis stage of the cycle. She has the same tragic flaw as Macbeth but she has more ambition to get the job done. Her crisis is when she decides to kill Duncan herself because Macbeth decides it would be wrong. Her crisis is avoided though when Macbeth kills Duncan himself not leaving the job to her.
ReplyDeleteMacbeth is like a Greek Tragedy in this act because of the guilt that Macbeth experiences after he kills Duncan. One aspect of a Greek tragedy is the chain of private guilt that a character experiences. Macbeth has so much guilt after he kills Duncan that he even kills the two guards because of the guilt that he has built up. Another aspect that makes this like a Greek tragedy is that the action takes place primarily in one place. The play is mostly set around Macbeth’s house for the murders and where the witches take form along with other key events. Another key aspect is that all the action so far has occurred over a small period of time. It has only been about a day and half when the reader is finished with Act 2. In this period of time, Macbeth has killed Duncan, the two guards, has been named king, and has thoughts about what to do with Banquo. The last aspect that makes this play like a Greek tragedy is how Shakespeare focuses in on the psychological feelings of the characters. He gives Macbeth a lot of guilt and he even uses this to make Lady Macbeth seem less moral than her husband is.
--- at he begining of the play Macbeth already has a status and that is Thane of Cawdor and this would give lady macbeth a higher up status also because she is the lady. Then we come across their tragic flaw which would be their thirst for power and control which causes both of them to do anything to become the king and queen even if it involved murder. This is eventually what happens because he ended up murdering Duncan with the help of lady Macbeth to become the next king even though he has to live with the guilt and she just tells him to get over it. The crisis is that he did murder duncan.
ReplyDelete--- Macbeth is like a Greek Tragedy because Macbeth is showing a lot of sorrow and shows a lot of regret already with his decision saying that his hands would turn the whole ocean red, and they can not simply be washed away. He is suffering because of his tragic flaw and has to live with this and realize he may of made a huge mistake.
1. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth go through the first few parts of the tragic hero cycle. They are both of noble character, wealthy individuals who are of status among the common people. Each have their own tragic flaws, and in either case. So far neither of them have reached the tragic crisis, but their decision to murder Duncan is leading Macbeth into remorse.
ReplyDelete2. Macbeth is like a Greek tragedy because Macbeth’s tragic flaw will lead to his downfall. At the end of Act II Scene 1, Macbeth says how he was unable to say “Amen” after killing the king, “But wherefore could not I pronounce “Amen?” This shows how there are cracks in Macbeth because of what he is doing. These events foreshadow that Macbeth’s emotions will cause him to crack under pressure and result poorly in his plan to control his fate.
--Macbeth and Lady Macbeth start out with a similar role in the beginning of Act 1 and Act 2 after Lady Macbeth draws Macbeth into her evil plan. She does whatever she can to convince her husband Macbeth to kill the king so he could be ahead and overpower everyone else. Soon after when he is convinced by her the killing is done and the shame hits Macbeth more than Lady Macbeth. However the guilt overcomes Lady Macbeth later on. Within this passage, tons of guilt is felt between these two character and they realize that what they have done is done and they can not go back and change/fix things. I began to see more masculinity within Lady Macbeth and more femininity within Macbeth, the reason I say this is began of how they react to things and there way of speech.
ReplyDelete--Macbeth is like a greek tragedy because after he does the killing he overcomes scarce and fear and guilt. He talks to himself and repeats over why he would do something like this and what will happen to him because of what he has done and will the plan work out how he wanted it to.
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth were people of status before the play even started, and have gained nobility and wealth throughout. They both have clearly distinguished flaws as well. Though the push mainly came from Lady Macbeth, Macbeth is motivated by ambition and power enough to kill Duncan and put himself in line to become King of Scotland. After Duncan was killed and everyone is gathered to figure out what to do, Macbeth owns up to killing the guards, but plays it off. The crisis is that Macbeth is beginning to show signs that he's losing his cool in stressful situations and is starting to crack, while Lady Macbeth is still quite thirsty for power and status. My guess is that this will cause problems later in the play.
ReplyDelete2. Macbeth is like a Greek tragedy because Macbeth’s tragic flaw will lead to his downfall. Greek tragedies focus on a protagonist whose flaws cause them to lose status and wealth. Macbeth has made is clear that his emotions take control of him and influence his actions. In Act II Scene 1, Macbeth says, “Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as well as to sight? Or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a dales creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?” He is uncertain if the dagger is real or just a hallucination. Also, at the end of Act II Scene 1, Macbeth says how he was unable to say “Amen” after killing the king, “But wherefore could not I pronounce “Amen?” This shows how there are cracks in Macbeth's psyche because of what he is doing. Another example of Macbeth’s emotions is shown when Macduff arrives. In the beginning of Act II Scene 3, Macbeth is noticeable distracted. He does not know how to react to the widespread “news” about the king, so he kills the guards out of fear. This shows how Macbeth is nervous and unable to handle the situation. These events foreshadow that Macbeth’s emotions will cause him to crack under pressure.