Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and tells the story of a Scottish general named Macbeth, who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that he will one day become kings of Scotland. Then Macbeth kills King Duncan and takes the throne for himself. Then guilt consumes him and he is forced to kill more and more people to protect himself from being discovered. The bloodbath and ensuing civil war brought Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realm of arrogance, madness, and ultimately death. This leads people to believe that Macbeth's tragic flaw is his ambition. His tragic flaw may be ambition, but Macbeth's fear is his greatest tragic flaw. Macbeth's first indication that Macbeth is afraid is when he begins to hallucinate a dagger leading him into the room. Macbeth says, “Is this a dagger that I see before me, with the hilt towards my hand?” (Act 2, scene 1, lines 32-33) This shows that he is thinking twice before killing King Duncan because he is afraid of being captured. In the instant we can even see that he fears not to satisfy his wife's requests. His wife ordered him to go eph...