Fate In Macbeth

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.

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 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.

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

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

Fate is our future. I believe in fate and that our life is decided even before we are born. In Macbeth, though, Macbeth's fate was not determined of him becoming king. By hearing the witches prophesying about him being king, he wanted it so badly that he made things happen to become king. “Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none: So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo (Shakespeare 11)!” At the beginning of this scene the witches were talking and then Macbeth and Banquo appeared. The witches told Macbeth that he would become king. Macbeth doubted it at first and thought that it could never be true, but started to think of how nice it would be to be king. Then he got it engraved in his head that he would and went into action to do it. Ross

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.

After Macbeth gains control, he starts to become paranoid not even trusting one of his comrades saying, “know Banquo was your enemy…. So is he mine” (3.1). Plotting the death of a man he fought alongside because he feels that Banquo is his “enemy”. Banquo’s death is gruesome with his “throat...cut” and “twenty trenched gashes on his head” (3.4). The ruthlessness of Banquo’s death is unnecessary but Macbeth orders this because he wants to make sure that no one finds out about what he has done so he ruthlessly kills Banquo.

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.

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.

One of the main ways that fate is shown is in Act 1 when the witches tell Macbeth and Banquo about the prophecies; they say “Thane of Glamis... Thane of Cawdor... and king hereafter”. We know that Macbeth is already Thane of Glamis and will soon be Thane of Cawdor from the previous scene which may be why

Macbeth’s mental and moral deterioration throughout the play engages the audience illustrating how guilt overwhelms his conscience He believes he hears voices crying “Macbeth has murdered sleep” this demonstrates how he is battling against his morals and his ambition. His good qualities are battling his bad thoughts and this is the main reason for his mental downfall which makes for a deeply engaging plot. Macbeth goes from being a man of bravery, strength, honour yet he slowly loses these qualities. He once believed that killing a good man was an evil, un-worthy thing to do yet by the end of the play he is killing the people he once had close relationships with to get himself out of the mess that was dragging him deeper into despair and tragedy. This process is enthralling for the audience who cannot resist watching him go to any length to save himself as his morals go into deep decline. Ambition has completely taken over him in the soliloquy in which he states; “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o’erleap itself and falls on the other.” In this instance Macbeth is interesting because he realises that the only thing that is making him want to kill Duncan is

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.

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

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