After reading the play Macbeth it’s clear that Macbeth is a tragic hero, a person of high rank who is brought to eventual ruin by a flaw in his character. Macbeth's tragic flaw is his ambition, which leads him to a series of bloody and increasingly open acts. The most obvious flaw, and maybe the most tragic in Macbeth's character, is his lack of patients and restraint. These weaknesses haunted Macbeth, causing him to let his overvaulting ambition rush fate, and hurry his doom. Macbeth could not wait for an appointment to a posi