It is said that in reality we don’t have choices of our own. Fate is what takes control of our path, some call it destiny or God’s will. Although Shakespeare wrote Macbeth, he never specifically said what the cause for his misfortune was. At the beginning of the play Macbeth encounters three witches that state his future, “All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis!/All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!/All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!”(6). The revelation is an alter in his path to greatness and horrid demise. The sister’s tell Banquo that his legacy will be the future kings except for him, “Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none:”(6)Macbeth is soon after considered thane of Cawdor which allows
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He is then given the news about Banquo’s death and his sons escape. “…Fleance is ‘scaped…/…safe in the ditch he bides,/with twenty trenched gashes on his head;/The least a death to nature.”(42) When Lady Macbeth hears about it she is no longer capable of taking in anymore deaths that were made in root of her decisions. She begins to feel remorse towards Macbeth’s change, blaming herself for everything that has happened. Despite her being a figure of fate, she ends up going insane with her own thoughts thus raising suspicion about the murders. “Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand…” (70). Macbeth forcefully tries to find a medicine that will work with her insanity, but he doesn’t realize it is him who needs to heal her. Her madness rapidly takes over hence, her living day’s disappear. In act three, scene five Shakespeare introduces a high witch called Hecate in which she gets after the witches for telling Macbeth his future. She makes it clear that Macbeth already had evil dwelling within him. “…which is worse, all you have done/Hath been for a wayward son, Spiteful and wrathful; who, as others do,/Loves for his own ends, not for you…”(47). Macbeth’s fate would stay the same whether his path was told or not. Since a wicked root was already in his heart, the murders would’ve still
He is then given the news about Banquo’s death and his sons escape. “…Fleance is ‘scaped…/…safe in the ditch he bides,/with twenty trenched gashes on his head;/The least a death to nature.”(42) When Lady Macbeth hears about it she is no longer capable of taking in anymore deaths that were made in root of her decisions. She begins to feel remorse towards Macbeth’s change, blaming herself for everything that has happened. Despite her being a figure of fate, she ends up going insane with her own thoughts thus raising suspicion about the murders. “Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand…” (70). Macbeth forcefully tries to find a medicine that will work with her insanity, but he doesn’t realize it is him who needs to heal her. Her madness rapidly takes over hence, her living day’s disappear. In act three, scene five Shakespeare introduces a high witch called Hecate in which she gets after the witches for telling Macbeth his future. She makes it clear that Macbeth already had evil dwelling within him. “…which is worse, all you have done/Hath been for a wayward son, Spiteful and wrathful; who, as others do,/Loves for his own ends, not for you…”(47). Macbeth’s fate would stay the same whether his path was told or not. Since a wicked root was already in his heart, the murders would’ve still