In a tragedy the main character rises to greatness, and then continues to fall down a shame spiral which leads to their down fall. An example of a tragedy is "Macbeth". Macbeth is driven up the hill of greatness a rise, and then his untamed ambition leads him to death. The process of a tragedy is slow to let the audience become comfortable with the power and happiness of the main character. Then all of …showed first 75 words of 1327 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1327 total…not have even given the idea another thought simply because he loves his wife and values her opinion. The third point made in this paper was who Macbeth is inside. If Macbeth was a gentle, kind heart that never had that terrible vaulting goal he would never, even with the prophecy and his wife's attitude murder Duncan. He would have ignored the prophecy and set his spouse strait and go on loyally serving his king.