Macbeth Fate Theme

In the play Macbeth, there are important themes involved in moving the story along to new things, developing characters and how they behave, and supplying key lessons for the reader to take away from the play. In the story, Macbeth is told of these prophecies about his fate and his future, and he has the opportunity of free will, which opened up a series of decisions Macbeth could have made based on this new information. He most definitely had the decision to let it be and let fate run its course, but did he take this route? Macbeth is a story of how fate, free will, ambition, and power can affect characters and their story.
The prophecies told to Macbeth initially shock him, and at first, he does not seem to be very believing of the witches. He does not have confidence in their predictions. However, when one of …show more content…
He is scared of being caught, afraid that it was all for nothing, and commences to regret his actions. However, when he is crowned and the need to protect himself develops, Macbeth’s ambition grows in him, and dictates all of his decisions. The newfound confidence in himself helps in these choices, and he begins to make them without the consultation of his wife. This independence is a substantial step for him, considering that before, Macbeth seemed to only make the decisions based on the opinions of his wife, and strongly relied on her for this.
As the play goes on, Macbeth’s ambition becomes even stronger. This could be seen as a good thing, but at this point, his ambition has become too much, and he is blind in the decisions that he makes. This blind ambition causes his decisions to become very poor, and the planning going into what he should do seems to be completely eliminated. After Macbeth is told of his second set of prophecies, he even says that, “From this moment / The very firstlings of my heart shall be / The firstlings of my hand.” (Shakespeare IV, i,