Why Macbeth is a tragic figure

. Macbeth is written by William Shakespeare which is a play is about a man whose ambition to become king drives him to commit a series of acts that eventually leads to his downfall. A tragic figure is a hero which gets caught up in a sequence of events that inevitably results in his downfall. The hero has some tragic flaw, a character weakness, which helps to bring about his downfall and has ordinary human qualities. Macbeth’s tragic flaw is his ambition and greed to become king. Once he hears the witches’ predications he is tempted to kill King Duncan and eventually he does...