Every great tragedy is dominated by a protagonist who has within himself a tragic flaw, too much or too little of one of Aristotle's twelve virtues. In Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, Macbeth, a great Scottish general and thane of Glamis, has just won an important battle, when he is told by ... terrible their ideas may be. By the end of the fourth scene Macbeth is already beginning to acknowledge the witches' words as truth after Malcolm becomes Prince of Cumberland, the heir to throne, "(Aside) The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down or else o'erleap, for in my w...

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... dislikes him anyway. Claudius has a guilty conscience because he is keeping from his wife and hamlet the fact that he murdered former king Hamlet and it wasn't just an accident. Prince Hamlet doesn't like Claudius because when hamlet saw his father's ghost he told hamlet to avenge his murder. By the beginning of Act III, Hamlet is almost ready to kill ... he has killed Duncan he is in total shock and comes back to her with the bloody daggers still in his hands and covered in blood himself. She tells him "a little water will wash us of this deed." Actually the water won't wash this deed ...

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• Grade Level: High School