Fate In Macbeth

In the opening scene of Macbeth written by Shakespeare, three witches appear who closely resemble the three fates from Roman and Greek mythology. The Greek myths, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos were in charge of the metaphorical thread of life of every mortal between life and death. In other words, the fates had the ability to determine everyone's future and decided when people life's were to start and end. While the three witches and the three fates are comparable in many ways, the three witches in Macbeth could only predict the future instead of creating it. In the first scenes, the witches visit Macbeth to tell him what his future holds; upon hearing Macbeth's glorious fortune, Banquo requests his own.

Through the soliloquy, the audience gains insight into Macbeth’s innermost thoughts. He names multiple reasons as to why he should not kill King Duncan, noting that Duncan is his guest, kinsman and a good king. He also admits that the only motive he has is the “Vaulting ambition” residing inside of him. Here he names his own hamartia, his fatal flaw, and acknowledges that to give in and commit such a deed, would result in his “deep damnation”. While still undecided on the matter, Lady Macbeth enters, and, seeing his indecision she decides to manipulate him into the decision that suits her; for after all, she is almost if not as ambitious as her husband. By questioning his manhood, his bravery, even their marriage, she successfully leads him to make the choice to kill the king. We now must realise that although the witches’ prophecies and Lady Macbeth’s taunts were a catalyst for Macbeth’s treachery, they never force him to make these errors in judgement; it must have been something that was already inside of him that caused him to decide this. There must have been some inherent evil already a part of his character.

In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, changes happen. At the beginning of the play, Macbeth is a well liked and good man of Scotland, who turns into an evil, cold hearted, murderer by the end. His rewards and punishments could have been predetermined by fate, but the actions he took to get to get those rewards and punishments were determined by Macbeth’s free will. In Macbeth, he attempts to control the future and hide the past by listening to other people and committing multiple murders of innocent people.

After murdering King Duncan, Macbeth returns ashamed of what he had done and becomes weak and morose. Lady Macbeth remains as bold and cold-hearted as she was at the moment she plotted to kill the king, but it was obvious that it would only be a matter of time before all of that bravery faded away and guilt would overcome her. She realizes that Macbeth is at one of the lowest points of his life and tries to give him that same sense of boldness that she has as she tries to cover up his weaknesses. Macbeth had a lot on his conscience that shortly after Banquo had been killed, he believed he saw the ghost of who was once his friend. No one else sees this apparition but Macbeth speaks to it as if it was

Fate has sundry meanings. One of the meanings of fate: power that predetermines events. Destiny’s definition suggests that events will occur and do not change. Whatever unravels in life cannot change by mankind. The statement has undivulged meanings; fate has the opportunity to change if the person wants events to end differently. However, wrong decisions will only seal fate. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, The fate becomes confirmed through Lady Macbeth wanting more power, Macbeth’s inner conflict, and the three witches tricking Macbeth and leading him to his demise.

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a tragedy in which the main characters are obsessed by the desire for power. Macbeth’s aspiration for power blinds him to the ethical implications of his dreadful acts. The more that Shakespeare’s Macbeth represses his murderous feelings, the more he is haunted by them. By analyzing his hallucinations it is possible to trace his deteriorating mental state and the trajectory of his ultimate fall. Throughout the play Macbeth is never satisfied with himself. He feels the need to keep committing crime in order to keep what he wants most: his kingship. The harder Macbeth tries to change his fate the more he tends to run into his fate. His ambition and struggle for power was Macbeth’s tragic flaw in the play.

After hearing the prophecy that he will become king, Macbeth resolves to leave his future up to fate proving his pride and prestige are very important to him. Once he is told of Malcolm being named successor to the throne, Macbeth decides that if he is going to reach his goal he cannot leave it up to luck. Again Macbeth’s resolve to murder Duncan wavers when he leaves the grand banquet to assess his situation and decide whether he wants to proceed. His arguments include wishing to keep his honor and not kill Duncan for Duncan is there ‘in double trust’. Thus, Macbeth is shown to be clinging to his honor. Finally, Macbeth must stand his ground one last time against his wife who uses tact to emasculate Macbeth. In his final attempt to stop the whole ordeal before it can start Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth that he does not want to ‘cast aside’ the honor he has just recently received. Unfortunately, Lady Macbeth will have none of what her husband is saying and so convinces Macbeth to follow through with his plan of murdering King Duncan. Hence, the audience is given the first example of how powerful selfish motives are and how quickly they can spread to others along with cause them to perform unthinkable

Macbeth’s greed Ever since Macbeth heard the prophecies that promised him power, his mind has been descending into a delusional state as time has passed. During Acts 1 and 2, Macbeth, under the influence of Lady Macbeth and his own ambition, has changed from being a rational, heroic figure to one of questionable integrity. With Macbeth’s crowning, not only does his inner mayhem affect his mentality, but also his behaviour. Scotland is in more chaos by Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s hunger for supremacy.

In the tragic play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, a brave war hero receives a prophecy from three witches which leads, power hungry Macbeth as well as his wife Lady Macbeth to destruction. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth commit unspeakable acts due to being driven by fear which suggests, people can be manipulated by their fear resulting in personal corruption. Throughout the play the Witches play a huge role in creating fear within Macbeth, which drives him further and further into a hole of destruction. In the beginning of the play the three witches’ share Macbeth’s prophecy with him which is that he will become the king of Scotland.

He desperately wants to keep his power, and there is only one, “Whose being I do fear; and under him My genius is rebuked, as it is said”(Act 3 Scene 1 Lines 53-55). Macbeth is so afraid of Banquo stopping his rule, he arranges to have his best friend murdered. Later it is clear Macbeth has lost it when he yells,“Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake Thy gory locks at me. ”(Act

Yet after his encounter with the witches, his mind was going back and forth trying to figure out how he should act upon the prophecy of becoming king! It was by then that the idea of fate had been planted into his head, and with such good title to come with it, why wouldn’t he want to believe his ‘fate’? Something that I found very interesting about the witches was that looking closely at line 24-25 when one of the witches says, "Though his bark cannot be lost, yet it shall be tempest-tossed." From what I seemed to understand, these lines seemed to really show the limitations to the witches’ powers, because they were basically saying that they could only make life rough for the clueless captain, but they could not kill him. I think that this is really important to all the people who thought that the witches had ‘written out’ Macbeth’s fate because in the same way as the previous stated scene they can tempt Macbeth with predictions about his future, but they cannot make him choose evil. Meaning that in this scene, one of the conflicts is obviously fate vs. free will! All the witches really did was find a way of stirring up evil, by tempting Macbeth into choosing to opt for evil instead of good. “If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, without my stir.” (Act 1. Scene iii. Line 10). Here, Macbeth seems content to leave his future to "chance." If "chance" will have

In the play Macbeth, William Shakespeare writes about Macbeth going into the depths of darkness and despair as he seeks the throne ignoring the possibility of consequences. In Macbeth, William Shakespeare shows that when power is involved good judgment is clouded and poor character flaws such as greed are shown. For example, when he sees that Malcolm is next in line for the throne as “a step on which ‘he’ must fall down on, or else o’erleap, for in ‘his’ way it lies.” (1.4.50-52), this demonstrates one of the first signs of greed and ambition of Macbeth. Macbeth now thought of Malcolm as an obstruction on his path to the throne.

Macbeth’s ambitious ways takes over his whole inner self throughout his time of first wanting to be king. Macbeth was thought to be a great leader and war hero before he was king. Macbeth was hatched an idea by three suspicious witches in whom he had never come in contact with before. They told him that he would one day become King of Scotland. After the witches disappeared, he got to think a lot about what they told him and pondered the words they spoke. Macbeth sends a letter to his wife about his feelings of what he had heard. When Macbeth returned back to his castle his wife wanted to lead him down a dark path and feed his ambition. Macbeth decides he wants to go after the crown after consulting his wife. "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on th'other...." (Act I, scene vii) This shows that Macbeth’s only reason to kill Duncan is for his ambition. Macbeth ends up killing Duncan. The way Macbeth killed Duncan made it a great crime scene. Macbeth still

When Macbeth hears about Banquo’s savage death, he is happy, almost ecstatic, at the thought of his friend’s death but the paranoia of what he has done starts to affect him. The paranoia starts to affect Macbeth because he sees an apparition of Banquo, this is not the first time he has seen an apparition. The fact that Macbeth is the only one seeing ghost adds to his descent into corruption and insanity because similar to the symbol of blood the more apparitions that appear the more insane and corrupted Macbeth becomes. This is prevalent when Macbeth shouts, “The times have been...when the brains were out, the man would die, and there an end; but now they rise again”

Everyday people will go through our lives knowing that what happened, was always going to happen. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the whole play is driven by fate from the beginning Act to the last scene of the play. So in Macbeth it is proven that in the play, fate will always take its course no matter how hard one tries to change it. First example starts right at the beginning of Act I, where Macbeth is given three prophecies by three Witches.