Aspirations to Downfall William Shakespeare’s fourth tragedy, Macbeth, involves a character whose ambitious nature is the cause of his tragic flaw. Macbeth’s growing involvement with the evil three witches, his self-deceptions with hallucinations, and his mental torture force him to succumb to temptation. William Shakespeare also had a hand in Macbeth’s tragic flaw. Macbeth’s belief in the three witches and evil were the main causes of his destruction. The three old …showed first 75 words of 872 total…

…showed last 75 words of 872 total…after committing the horrible crimes he authorized and ended up losing all of his ambitions. William Shakespeare also had a hand in Macbeth’s tragic flaw. As the playwright, he created Macbeth to be the ambitious prince who tried to succumb fate, but had his ambitions become his downfall. “Ambition, in its inherent opposition to heredity and the established order, thus becomes the enemy of all life, especially that of the ambitious man himself” (Watson, 134).