The Role Of Free Will In Macbeth

When you read the story Macbeth, you read about a man who knew the different ways of how he could die, but was unable to avoid his death no matter what precautions that he took. The events in the story, could be considered fate by most readers due to that fact. Although, when you delve deeper into the story and think about how all the events truly started, you would soon discover that the origin of everything, would be the free will of Macbeth himself. Macbeth having a very naive nature created this fear of his own death and the newfound urgency to prevent his death, by any means necessary. Even if Macbeth was scared of dying, he could have recognized that his decisions were taking him down a road that even his own wife, who urged him to stop too, couldn’t even go down. As a result, Macbeth was influenced by the prophecy given to him by the three witches, but Macbeth’s own free will is what ultimately caused his own demise. First, is how the role of free will affected the story and led to Macbeth’s death. In my opinion, I believe that the murder of King Duncan, is the first mistake that Macbeth made by the result of his own free will. “I go, and it is done” (Shakespeare 2.1), during King Duncan’s visit to Macbeth’s castle, Macbeth was persuaded by Lady Macbeth to kill Duncan. Macbeth at first, …show more content…
The events of the story all came as a result of his terrible decisions to murder Duncan and order the deaths of both Banquo and Macduff’s family respectively. Macduff certainly suffered for his deeds, by witnessing his own death at the hands of the person who he was warned about before the battle ever started. Fate is an influencing factor on Macbeth, who functions throughout the story on the basis that everything the witches predicted would take place indefinitely. One can only feel mock sympathy for Macbeth, as he was a man who fundamentally caused his own