This is a fundamental question about the genre and the
ethical issues in the play where the tragedy that we see in it is inscribed. Macbeth is
a tragedy because it shows suffering---physical (Duncan's, Lady Macduff's, Banquo's and
so on) and psychological (Lady Macbeth, most manifestly). It is the consequence of the
actions, as executed by the different characters in the
play.
It is a tragedy that combines the Greek dimensions of
destiny and the more prominently Renaissance dimensions of individual agency. The play
is a study of evil, both within the mind and without. For Macbeth and Lady Macbeth both,
it is a tragedy of their ambition which is backed by a strong ethical imagination,
rendering their mentalworld chaotic post the event of tragic sin or the action, prompted
by the 'hamartia' of 'hubris' from which they both suffer.
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