or a tragedy of characters. Tragedy of fate is the tragic fate of the story that the character can't stop
from happening. While tragedy of character is the tragic conflict, influence between characters. For
example a sorcerer controls a knight him to do evil actions that is Tragedy of Character. An example
for tragedy of fate is a hero is told that he is going to fall, and break his leg while fighting a dragon,
and the hero does. So is Macbeth a tragedy of fate or is it a tragedy of character. I will be trying
to explain, and give examples of tragedy of fate that are in Macbeth. Firstly this example is when
Macbeth and Banquo first encountered the three witches …show more content…
There is many more examples such as
these because they have characters that act on their own free will, and get manipulated by other
characters. From all of the reading, and thinking I have done I can say that I have come to
the conclusion that the story Macbeth is mainly a tragedy of character rather than a tragedy of fate.
Based off the information that is in the story with Macbeth killing people on his own free will Lady
Macbeth trying to persuade Macbeth to kill someone in the beginning of the story also backs this up.
Although it had some features of tragedy of fate such as the witches when they first meet Macbeth and
Banquo they foretold Macbeth's and Banquo's future they told Macbeth that he will be a king, and they
told Banquo that he will not be a king but his children will be. Later on the Prophesied events become
true Macbeth became a king through some devilish deeds, and Banquo fled with his son, while they
were running murders sent by Macbeth attacked them, Banquo died to protect his son who escape