莎士比亚的作品《麦克白》中的主人公麦克白是个弑君篡权的罪人,但是其内心强烈的善恶冲突及其勇于向命运挑战的英雄人格却给人以强烈的震撼力。亚里士多德第一次给悲剧下了定义,却是莎士比亚使悲剧日臻完善走向成熟。在学习埃斯库罗斯、苏法格拉斯等人的基础上,亚里士多德给西方悲剧界带来了第一缕曙光,而莎士比亚站在前辈们的肩膀上,写出了完美的悲剧作品。 Macbeth, the hero of Shakespeare’s work “Macbeth”, is a sinister man who has usurped the throne’s power. However, his intense conflict of good and evil and heroic personality, who dare to challenge his fate, give him a powerful force. Aristotle, for the first time, defined the tragedy but Shakespeare matured the tragedy to maturity. Aristotle, on the basis of studying Aeschylus and Sufuguras, provided the first ray of hope to the Western tragedy, while Shakespeare stood on the shoulders of his predecessors and wrote a perfect tragedy works.