Tragedy elucidated is dramatic composition of serious or sombre character, with an unhappy ending, any literary composition dealing with a dismal theme carried to a tragic conclusion relating to a lamentable, dreadful fatal event or affair, conceivably known as a disaster or calamity. Hero in literary stipulations is a man of distinguished courage or performance, admired for his noble personality, one who is invested with laudable qualities in the opinion of others. These two words are the fundamental core when accessing the character of Macbeth. The requisites of a tragic hero are fulfilled by Macbeth, he is a person born of noble birth, who undergoes a fall. Macbeth evokes our pity and consternation, he is neither thoroughly good nor thoroughly evil but a mixture of both. Considered a once moral character he suffers a change in fortune from happiness to misery, due to a mistaken deed, which he performs due to his hamartia -'error of judgement'. Pity is induced to this character, because he is not evil and his ill fortune is greater than he deserves. Invocation of our fear is eminent because we realize we are fallible and could make the same error. tragic hero?? Yes, because he ultimately cannot escape his character flaw, namely that he is too ambitious, he cannot separate this ambition from issues of justice or morality, and his story thus inevitably ends tragically.
             Macbeth's degeneration is protracted, throughout the play, it progresses and eventually comes to its summit. The three most prominent aspects, which bequeath to the relapse of Macbeth are: The foretelling of the prophecy of the witches concerning his destiny, the clouding of his judgement, by Lady Macbeth, through means of influx and manipulation and finally the critical shortcoming in his character, the trait of over-ambition which drove his desire to be king. These three key facets are the focal points, which account for hamartia in the characters p...