Shakespeare's "Macbeth" is classed as a tragedy. This is when someone has great potential in life but who has an aspect of their personality which can be used in a negative way, both by the individual concerned and those around him. In Macbeth's case, his fatal flaw is ambition, this is particularly evident in act1, scene3 where he has murderous thoughts about the possibility of King Duncan's assassination;

"Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, why hath it given me the earnest of success?"

After these murderous thoughts, he consults Lady Macbeth who tries incredibly hard to force Macbeth to go ahead and to murder the unsuspecting king. Here she also goes on to exploit another of Macbeth's flaws. She has the ability to influence Macbeth through speech. Macbeth can easily be swayed when his wife talks to him and questions his masculinity. In one instance she says to him,

"What beast was't then that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man."

Changed appearance: "Why do you make such faces?" Lady Macbeth addresses her husband. Act 3, Scene 4.

Visions: " Is this a dagger which I see before me?" Macbeth in a soliloquy. Act 2, Scene 1.

This statement basically describes the witches' intent to destroy whatever is good and to brood the presence of murderous intention and action to all those individuals who allow themselves to be influenced and manipulated by it. We must remember that it was after meeting the witches for the second time and seeing the apparitions that made Macbeth vow to kill all members of Macduff's family.

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