Shakespeare's "Macbeth" Part 2: Characters and Questions
New Books in Literary Studies
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The Tragic Floor in Macbeth
Macbeth raises questions about why things happen and whether there is such a thing as evil. One way of understanding tragic action is through the notion of the tragic floor, he says. Some critics see this fatal action less as a simple mistake and more as evidence of some deeper fault in their character. Macbeth ends up doing something that's really bad but probably hurts him as much as anybody else.
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