Macbeth and its Fatal Flaws Anyone who is not a god, is not perfect. Everyone has aweakness or a flaw. Some flaws are more deadly than others. Some are addicted to heroin while others are unable to rememberwhere they put their keys. Every major flaw in this storythough, comes back to haunt them. The reason why anybody failsin this story is because of their “flaw”. Not everyone diesthough, that is because their flaw is not fatal. Following willbe an explanation of how the major flaws of the characters leadto their downfall. Macbeth will be the first one discussed, since he was themain character. The play’s problems start when he kills Duncan. This is done because he has a flaw; he is too determined. Hedoesn’t let anything in his way of the goal, to be king, provenhere: 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 2 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 wouldnever have had to die. Consequently, if Macbeth had not killedDuncan, this story would not have any murders in it at all. Macbeth is driven by greed and violence proven by WilliamHazlitt: Macbeth himself appears driven along by the violence of his fate like a vessel drifting before a storm: he reels to and fro like a drunken man; he staggers under the weight of his own purposes and the suggestions of others; he stands at bay with his situation; and from the superstitious awe and breathless suspense into which the communications of the Weird Sisters throw him, is hurried o...
