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What is the tragic flaw that spurs macbeth's actions?

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Macbeth's tragic flaw is his overwhelming ambition. Ambition is the desire to achieve success.

Macbeth has a great desire for power, or ambition. At the beginning of the play, he is not satisfied with his position. When the witches tell him that he could be king, Macbeth's ambition propels him to do anything necessary -- even murder -- to make that prophecy a reality.
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