tor to cure her of her mental illness, and makes no effort himself to help cure her. When Lady Macbeth dies, Macbeth states "She should have died hereafter. There would have been time for such a word." He hears the news of his wife's death and reacts nonchalant and unemotionally.But Macbeth is still a tragic hero because he reveals to us that he is suffering a living hell, without the blessing of sleep "that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care". His punishment is as great as his crimes. At the end Macbeth does not run away or kill himself. Although Macbeth knows that he is doomed, he fights Macduff to the end, showing he is still courageous and physically brave.Once the saviour of his country, a "valiant cousin!" a "worthy gentleman," Macbeth became the "dead butcher", allowing ambition to overcome the natural order of life....
