This paper discusses the tragic vision of William Shakespeare through the critical analysis of roles, identity in his major tragedies especially Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, and King Lear. It explores the way Shakespeare depicts the plight of people as they strive to find themselves and play their roles in the moral, social, and political system of their world. The study reveals that failure of order and tension between duty and desire are the cause of the downfall of his tragic heroes, as the issue of the human nature and moral responsibility is quite complex. Based on the critical and historical viewpoints, the paper will focus on how Shakespeare creates a dramatic world in which the desire to identify and the use of authority bring out the greatness and weakness of the human in seeking an identity. Finally, this study shows that the tragedies of Shakespeare are not limited to their time, but they provide eternal lessons on what leadership, moral decision-making, and the results of human greed and misjudgment are.