Macbeth, Othello, and King Lear are three prominent Jacobean tragedies that William Shakespeare created with notable tragic protagonists. According to Aristotle a tragic protagonist is a nobleman or person from high honor who contributes to his own degeneration and illustrates a flaw or weakness in judgment. Finally, the tragic protagonist must make a fall from a high state of being to a low state or death. These characteristics being easily compared and contrasted can show …showed first 75 words of 790 total…

…showed last 75 words of 790 total…out his sons, and attempts but fails at suicide. Both men mistook the good for the evil and suffering terribly for their misunderstandings Every tragedy has its own individual characteristics, but they all have some major points in common. The main theme outlined by Aristotle, author of Poetics. The ideas in his work were adopted by Shakespeare in the plays Macbeth, Othello, and King Lear. It is a common element that binds these works together.