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Macbeth has been considered as Shakespeare's most profound and mature vision of evil.Wilson Knight calls the play a wrestling of destruction with creation.Derek Traversi considers the play to be a decisive orientation of Shakespeare's good and evil.Kolbe sees it as a picture of a special battle in a universal war and whose battleground is in the souls of Macbeth and his wife.The play is a study of evil in various manifestations and at various levels.Shakespeare firmly believed that evil destroys itself to give place to good and harmony at all levels.Macbeth,throughout the play ,is presented as one above the ordinary beings,and as such,he fulfills the basic requirements of a tragic hero.Macbeth ,as a tragic hero, is different from Hamlet,Othello, and Lear, who retain their goodness till the end.lndeed, in no other tragic hero of his has Shakespeare displayed so much understanding of the complexity of human nature as he has done in portraying the charecter of Macbeth "There remains for our choice of person neither eminently virtuous nor just, nor yet involved in misfortune by deliberate vice or villainy but by some error or human frailty; and this person should also be someone of high fame and flourishing prosperty". Such a man would make an ideal tragic hero.