"By the pricking of my thumbs something Wicked this way comes": Tragedy by William Shakespeare

Have a little read: ... "By the pricking of my thumbs something Wicked this way comes" Tragedy by William Shakespeare Usually we stereotype a tragic play or story as a serious drama with an unhappy events or a sad ending but Shakespeare has put a new concept of the original tragic hero. He created a character called Macbeth, Macbeth is a tragic hero. To be a tragic hero you must be a man of high status which is rectified by a combination of fate and destiny, his own mistakes and hermatia. His character is that of a bold, brave, 'benign' warrior. He is portrayed as a character that is thoroughly liked all over Scotland however as the play develops Macbeths morals seem to evaporate leaving an evil man that is obsessed by power. He achieves his high status by being cousin of the king Duncan and being popular. These qualities are pure yet they are the base of his decent. Macbeths own mistakes start to cause a chain reaction of terrible events. Macbeth is arrogant he says to Lady Macbeth; "Be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck," Macbeths begins to think that he knows better than his wife who originally put in him this position of greed and selfishness. Macbeth becomes cursed by his "Vaulting ambition" which pushes him to kill his best friend and what would have been his only friend if he had spared his life. He kills the king immediately followed by two innocent guards. The most horrific murder in the play is the murder of Macduffs wife and three children. This shows that Macbeth is definitely evil he uses harsh justice on a family that is in no real danger by Macbeths power. It is emotive it begins to make you think how the people must have lived in fear and what a terrible time to be alive if you were associated with Macbeth. He was a dictator he was a ruler who was unconstrained by law. Macbeth shows his arrogance again through a combination of his soliloquy where he tells the audience that because Duncan is a perfect king and he does nothing to hurt anyone that he is just waiting to be killed and Macbeth wants to be first. Secondly Macbeth has convinced himself that he is immortal. This is because the witches played a trick with his mind and told him a riddle which Macbeth foolishly didn't understand or