For our introductory lesson on Shakespeare's "Macbeth" I discussed Aristotle's classic definitions of : tragedy, , hamartia, peripeteia, and catharsis. I further explored the two types of tragedy-the tragedy of character and the tragedy of fate. Last,I defined the literary device "pathetic fallacy". We read Act I scene I to illustrate an example of the "pathetic fallacy" and discussed the significance of the famous passage "fair is foul and foul is fair."