... written by the playwright William Shakespeare in the year 1606. The story tells of a young man called Macbeth who is given three prophecies by three witches and kills the king in an attempt to make them come true. The moral to the story was that in the end Macbeth went crazy and died painfully therefore ... Plot. The play helped dissuade anyone from trying to defy the divine right of the king and so helped keep him safe while royals and nobles regarded Shakespeare better for the plot. The very first scene of the play is that of three witches standing in a desolate area chanting and cursi...

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In Shakespeare's Macbeth, Macbeth and his wife Lady Macbeth are both examples of tragic heroes who possess a tragic flaw. According to Webster's dictionary, a tragic flaw is defined as "a flaw in character that brings about the downfall of the hero of a tragedy." Macbeth held within his character the flaw of ambition, as well as ... Both characters began in high positions and, throughout the play, accumulated losses caused by their own weaknesses in personality. There is already evidence of Macbeth's inborn ambition in the beginning of the play in the fact that he holds a high position as the ...

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