In william shakespears macbeth...Macbeth is too arrogant and foolish to see his own tragic end...?

Question

Agree or Disagree

and why

Answer 1

I agree, but instead replace foolish with overconfidence.  The wierd sisters made him several prophecies saying no man born of a woman could kill him and he wouldnt fall until the forest marched.  He took this to mean that he was invincible which made him overconfident and arrogant.

Answer 2

I agree in fact this is the most common interpretation of Macbeth's tragic flaw though I'd say more arrogant than foolish.  He believes he is invincible do to the weird sister's predictions about his future and dismisses the part where he can be killed (by a man "not of woman born").  Macbeth arrogantly interprets this as no man in the world because all are technically of woman born but this phrase in Shakespeare's time meant a person who was cut out of a woman's womb (C-section) and not birthed "naturally."  Therefore someone could (and of course does) kill him.