In William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the play's central character, Macbeth, displays the atrocities created by greed, on of the plays many themes. His tragic decision stems from the influence of a tragic flaw. Once he has made the decision, it is irreversible and produces his downfall. Aristotle defined the tragic hero as the following: " The tragic hero must be neither villain nor a virtuous man but a character between these two extremes a man who ... 's not eminently good and just, yet whose misfortune is brought about not by vice or depravity but by some error or human frailty." Macbeth serves...

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