outcome. He could have easily backed down and given up his reign by choice, but he stood his ground and fought with passion and aggression. He was aware that he had failed himself, his wife, and lost all nobility, and maybe he had lost all ambition to live. He had nothing left to continue on for. But he did say, “Ring the alarum-bell! ... harness on our back.” (5:3:56-57) I perceive this to be true courage on Macbeth’s part.A tragic hero is said to be doomed from his beginning. A victim of his own ambition and moral weakness, Macbeth decline from a kind, respectable warrior, to a murdering, lying, fiend. It is his obsessive and literal belief in the prophecies that impaired him. The tragedy of Macbeth is of the kind of man he could have been and almost was, but fell short because he overlooked the contradictions in his character and made the fatal mistake of giving in to his ambition. ...
