MacBeth is a tragic hero because of the following:
1. He occupies a high station at the beginning of the play and "falls" by the end of it.
2. Macbeth is a soldier, a general, and acts through "orders." Macbeth was "ordered" by his wife to go through with this business and even the witches' prophecies are a kind of suggestion to one who more capable of action and not reflective thought.
3. MacBeth seems incapable of resisting his wife's argumentation on whether or not he should kill a King and commit regicide.
4. Macbeth seems incapable of resisting the suggestions of the witches and their promises of power and glory. Macbeth should resist the power of "vaulting ambition" but he doesn't and once he is "stepped so far in blood" he cannot get out of it.
5. Toward the end of Macbeth, before the attack on Dunnsinane and after Lady Macbeth's suicide, he is incapable of pity, remorse, or anything resembling normal human pain and suffering. In his "tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" soliloquy he is completely nihilistic, cold, unfeeling, and a shell of his former self.
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