I am writing an essay on Macbeth and I need to know what his tragic flaw is and what his attitude towards repentence is
Also if anyone is familiar with Dr. Faustus (a short play by Shakespear) I need to know his tragic flaw and attitude toward repentence. Thanks
2007-01-08 05:34:35 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Please show me where Shakespearewrote Dr Faustus and I WILL DO YOUR HOMEWORK FOR YOU!
2007-01-08 06:05:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
have you read the play? Perhaps you should read it again. It's a few years since I read it I must admit but in my opinion his tragic flaw was over confidence. He believed what he was told, that no man born of woman could defeat him and didn't take into account anybody from his mother's womb untimely ripped. Actually it's a point of debate whether a child born by ceasarian is born of woman, I would say they were but clearly shakespeare didn't think so.
As for repentance, well though it was actually Lady Macbeth that originally goaded him into murdering Duncan she was the one who was driven mad with guilt as a result of the crime. Macbeth seemed content to compound it by rampaging around murdering several other people in order to protect his position.
Well those are my thoughts anyway, hope they help, sorry I'm not familiar with Dr. Faustus.
2007-01-08 05:51:16 · answer #2 · answered by gerrifriend 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Macbeth's fatal flaw was his lack of reading. He didn't read the assignment because he wasted his time online trying to get someone to do it for him. Dr. Faustus, on the other hand, had the tragic flaw to desire greatness without working for it and made a pact with the devil. In the end, it was his undoing.
2007-01-08 05:38:44 · answer #3 · answered by James M 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is open to lots of interpretation, but my own personal view is that MacBeth's tragic flaw was his own ambition, which leads him to betray his king and, later, murder his friend Banquo. The play dwells on ambition's ability to be a morally corrupting agent. It has the same effect on Lady Macbeth, whose sins drive her to madness and suicide.
I don't think he has much attitude toward penance. At the turning point of the play Macbeth says, "Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er." He has decided it would be just as easy to keep killing and murdering as it would to repent and turn back.
As for Dr. Faustus, the only play I know is by Christopher Marlowe, not Shakespeare. In that play, Faustus tragic flaw is, like MacBeth, ambition. He sells his soul to Lucifer in exchange for twenty-four years of immense power. As for penance, Faustus, unlike MacBeth, desires to repent as the fear of a lifetime of hell begins to plague him.
Hope that helps!!
2007-01-08 05:38:40 · answer #4 · answered by Chel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dr. Faustus was written by Christopher Marlowe, a contemporary of Shakespeare's.
2007-01-08 08:36:10 · answer #5 · answered by sidgirls 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
both have the flaw of overambition....Macbeth does not care to repent because he does not see the point (his soul is already tainted and there is nothing he can do about it) whereas Dr. Faustus is ultimately redeemed due to his desire to repent
2007-01-08 05:51:23 · answer #6 · answered by jcresnick 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Macbeth's tragic flaw is his ambition, most commonly. Some think his flaw is believing the witches when they mislead him.
2007-01-08 06:57:56 · answer #7 · answered by Pink Denial 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should really go to sparknotes.com. This site will provide you will sample essay questions, sample test questions as well as the original text and its modern day translation. It also analyzes the text for you. It pretty much got me through english lit. Good luck!
2007-01-08 05:38:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i believe his fatal flaw was how he listened to whatever his wife said including her orders to kill many innocent men.
2007-01-08 05:43:21 · answer #9 · answered by pooshna66 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋