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Anyone who is not a god, is not perfect. Everyone has a

weakness or a flaw. Some flaws are more deadly than others.

Some are addicted to heroin while others are unable to remember

where they put their keys. Every major flaw in this story

though, comes back to haunt them. The reason why anybody fails

in this story is because of their “flaw”. Not everyone dies

though, that is because their flaw is not fatal. Following will

be an explanation of how the major flaws of the characters lead

to their downfall.

Macbeth will be the first one discussed, since he was the

main character. The play’s problems start when he kills Duncan.

This is done because he has a flaw; he is too determined. He

doesn’t let anything in his way of the goal, to be king, proven

here:

The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step On

which I must fall down, or else o’erleap, For

in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires;

Let not light see my black and deep desires:

The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be



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which the eye fears, when it is done, to

see.(Act I, Scene vii, lines 1-28)

If he had not been so determined to be king, then Duncan would

never have had to die. Consequently, if Macbeth had not killed

Duncan, this story would not have any murders in it at all.

Macbeth is driven by greed and violence proven by William

Hazlitt:

Macbeth himself appears driven along by

the violence of his fate like a vessel

drifting before a storm: he reels to and fro
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