How Does Fate Change In Macbeth

In the play Macbeth, Shakespeare says that your fate can be tampered with when you have to much power in life. Fate is a big part of the play because it is told in the story that you do not mess with the fate of yourself and others. Macbeth does differently and looks to take power instead of letting fate take its toll and have it come to him but taking the power makes him blind to see that he’s really setting himself up for failure later in the story. In act one, Shakespeare set up macbeth for him to be a hero to all that knows him and knows about him. While winning the war he is much appreciated and kind as a person. He was also the thane of a small town called Glamis at the time but he did not know that his fate would lead him walking into the proficiencies of the three witches. Making him the thane of Cawdor and to soon be king, macbeth begins to see how much power that …show more content…
Macbeth tells her about the proficiencies that he was told and what happened and Lady Macbeth thinks right away that there fate is changed and wants to take advantage of the situation at hand. Macbeth may be fated to be king, but he decides after Lady Macbeth talks him into it that he will murder Duncan in order to obtain the crown. His actions suggest that fate may be predetermined by his actions. “Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? (2.1.44-51). This quote in act 2 is say that fate was telling him to kill Duncan at that particular moment. He believe that the dagger was floating but it was his mind lying to him to make him kill Duncan and become the king. Macbeth's fate makes him do a lot of actions and this is just one of