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Why did Shakespeare believe people couldn't change?

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Why would you think he believed that?? The characters in his plays change all the time. You can't think the Macbeth at the start of the play is the same as the one at the end!

Literary critics have foisted on Shakespeare the idea of the "tragic flaw", the idea that people have a fixed character and bad things flow from some flaw in that fixed character. But there is no reason to believe that Shakespeare believed any such nonsense. It is much more evident in Victorian melodrama or the comedy of humours (such as Jonson's Every Man in his Humour) than in Shakespeare.

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