Claim: Fearless to fate will lead to an inescapable tragedy of destruction.
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Macbeth
“If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me without my stir.” (1.3.144)
“Rather than so, come fate in to the list, And champion me to th’ utterance. Who’s there?” (3.1.70-71)
Macbeth is the center of the tragedy controlled by fate. He has the ambition of power as his free will deep inside his mind. When he meets the witches and find prophecies become true, he gains confidence and over time become overconfidence. While he sees fate as chances that bring him to power, he meets his ‘fair’ by being powerful. But soon then live under the fear of ‘foul’. His fear and overconfidence lead him to end up standing against fate and finally killed. As he is the center of the tragedy, he seems to be the one who leads what happens on the play. However, when prophecies start to control his action and thinking, he is then nothing but a marionette controlled by fate—the one being used to create a tragedy.
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They appear to be the guide who points out the way for Macbeth through prophecies. Macbeth sees this as the light, the fair—a fated way for him to satisfy his ambition of power. But in fact, it is the darkness, the foul—the fated tragedy of self-destruction. Witches use the first prophecy to earn Macbeth’s trust by meeting his expectation of ambition. Soon Macbeth gains dependence on them and therefore Macbeth is fully under controlled. Later on, as Macbeth stated to fight against fate—when he thinks he is greater than fate, they use his overconfidence and coming up with a prophecy that ‘none of women born Shall harm him’—a equivoque that leads to his death. A bigger picture of fate is shown when Hecate is introduced to the play. She seeks the weaknesses and insignificance of human; she shows off her power by creating tragedies. Human is there to please the fate and
Refer to first quote
Refer to second quote
Macbeth
“If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me without my stir.” (1.3.144)
“Rather than so, come fate in to the list, And champion me to th’ utterance. Who’s there?” (3.1.70-71)
Macbeth is the center of the tragedy controlled by fate. He has the ambition of power as his free will deep inside his mind. When he meets the witches and find prophecies become true, he gains confidence and over time become overconfidence. While he sees fate as chances that bring him to power, he meets his ‘fair’ by being powerful. But soon then live under the fear of ‘foul’. His fear and overconfidence lead him to end up standing against fate and finally killed. As he is the center of the tragedy, he seems to be the one who leads what happens on the play. However, when prophecies start to control his action and thinking, he is then nothing but a marionette controlled by fate—the one being used to create a tragedy.
Three Witches/Hecate …show more content…
They appear to be the guide who points out the way for Macbeth through prophecies. Macbeth sees this as the light, the fair—a fated way for him to satisfy his ambition of power. But in fact, it is the darkness, the foul—the fated tragedy of self-destruction. Witches use the first prophecy to earn Macbeth’s trust by meeting his expectation of ambition. Soon Macbeth gains dependence on them and therefore Macbeth is fully under controlled. Later on, as Macbeth stated to fight against fate—when he thinks he is greater than fate, they use his overconfidence and coming up with a prophecy that ‘none of women born Shall harm him’—a equivoque that leads to his death. A bigger picture of fate is shown when Hecate is introduced to the play. She seeks the weaknesses and insignificance of human; she shows off her power by creating tragedies. Human is there to please the fate and