Tragic hero?

Do you see Macbeth as a tragic hero or not? Please bring in specific evidence from the text, you can also connect it to parts of your presentation to help support your argument. Make sure you explain what a tragic hero is. How do our EQ’s connect to this as well?

Macbeth to me, IS a tragic hero. I think this, because he started out good, he just lost his way because he let people mislead him and steer him in the wrong direction. He gives in easily to peer pressure. For example, here is a quotation on Lady Macbeth and how far she will go to make her husband get all power. And how he backs down from her peer pressure and does what she wants him to do.

"The raven himself is hoarse

That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements. Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood,
Stop up th’access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
Th’ effect and it. Come to my woman’s breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature’s mischief. Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry ‘Hold, hold!’ "

This quotation from Lady Macbeth states that she will do anything for power, even give up her woman hood. I chose this quote because it shows how much of a push over Macbeth is, and how he'll do what ever he can to please others. A tragic hero, is the main character who is in a tragedy, and has made a lot of errors in his time, which leads to his/her downfall in the end. My essential question is how does power corrupt? well, if it hadn't been for the power that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth were striving for, then Lady Macbeth wouldn't have had an urge to push her husband into committing a crime this serious. My other essential question was how far is someone willing to get what they want. And in this case, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth went to great strengths to get what they wanted. And that was the throne, and they soon eventually got it. But all the lying and guilt took a toll on both of them, and thats how power also corrupted them. It back fired.