At the start of Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, we are introduced to the main character Macbeth who is an honorable and noble servant to the king. Towards the conclusion of the play we see the same person in a completely different light. He has been transformed from this honorable and noble servant into an evil tyrant who rules over Scotland by fear and an iron fist. Macbeth is a tragedy because we see this noble character fall into the temptation of evil and eventually capitulate fully to it. However even towards the end he still retains some of our sympathy. We can still see that there is some humanity in him.
The contrasts between the portrayal of Macbeth at the start of the play and the Macbeth at the end of the play are great indeed. At
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