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 king of 'Scotland. Macbeth therefore murders King Duncan and seizes the throne. Then the guilt consumes him and he is forced to kill more and more people to protect himself from getting caught. The bloodbath and resulting civil war dragged Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of arrogance, madness, and ultimately death. This leads people to believe that Macbeth's tragic flaw is his ambition. His tragic flaw might be ambition, but Macbeth's fear is his greatest tragic flaw. The first indication of Macbeth's fear is when he begins to hallucinate about a dagger leading him into the room. Macbeth said: “Is this a dagger that I see before me, the hilt towards my hand? (Act 2, scene 1, lines 32-33) This shows that he thinks twice before killing King Duncan because he is afraid of being caught. At the time, this even shows that he fears not satisfying his wife's demands. His wife ordered him to go f...