Macbeth's destiny changed because the witches planted the thought of him becoming king into his head. He wouldn't have thought of murdering Duncan and of becoming king on his own. Then, he wouldn't have gone crazy and wouldn't of have killed Duncan, Banquo, and Macduff's family. Lady Macbeth's death could also be related to the witches prophecies because the guilt and shame of the murders made her go crazy and die. Macbeth would still be well liked and loyal to the king.…
Choosing free choice is why Macbeth and Lady Macbeth died at the very end of the story. One reason why they went to their untimely death is that they tried to go against fate. During the time of Shakespeare they obsuosliy did not believe in fate, and that you had a choice make their own fate. This however just helped with the fate that was already choose for them. The example of this is when Macbeth decides to not heave the warning of Macduff that the witches told him.…
Are humans but the playthings of a higher power, walking blindly along a predetermined path? Or are humans completely in control of their life, and use fate as an excuse to justify their misdeeds? The main character in Shakespeare’s Macbeth brings these questions to the forefront, and it must be decided whether his heinous crimes were the result of a prophecy or if he was merely using the prophecy as an excuse to carry out his heart’s darkest desires. Free will can be defined as the presence of a choice, full knowledge of the consequences, and the lack of external constraint.…
Comparison Essay – Shakespeare’s Macbeth: Macbeth’s Character at the Beginning of the Play vs. the End Sometimes situations change people for the better, and sometimes for the worst. Unfortunately, we will never understand destiny, nor the way it plays with us – one second we can be at the top of the “wheel of fortune”, another second we can be at the bottom. Destiny is the game that plays with Shakespeare’s tragic hero, Macbeth. Macbeth’s character evolves significantly throughout the play; this transformation changes Macbeth’s loyalty and faith, his feelings for his loved ones, as well as his definition of life.…
Macbeth is not a helpless victim of fate, he was in control of all of his actions and decisions. He is prophesied his fate by the witches, but he is not told how to accomplish it. Although influenced by the witches, Macbeth decided that he would take control of his own fate to achieve his desired goal. The witches foresee Macbeth’s future and recount his predetermined destiny to him, which then leads him to decide whether he should take action or let fate take over.…
You Can’t Escape the Inevitable Fences and Macbeth both have elements in them to be considered tragedies. However when you think about a tragedy Macbeth seems to be the more clear one. When you read Fences these elements begin to come clear as Troy just misses out on his shot to make it big, afterwords comes a life full of regret and bad decisions, and then inevitable death. Troy in the beginning of fences was an aspiring baseball player who was playing in the negro leagues.…
Act IV/V Essay Shakespeare has showed in many ways how free choice is responsible for the death of both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Many choices led to the death of these two characters. To start off, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth decided together to kill the king. Even once they were committed, it was not too late to back down. Lady Macbeth chose not to kill the king because the king looked too much like her father.…
Later in the play, the audience will see Macbeth win the battles of the murders, but he loses when himself and Lady Macbeth die. Additionally, when Macbeth is about to kill the King, he wants “[The] stars [to] hide your fires; /Let not light see my black and deep desires- “(I.iv.50-51). In the play, this scene is a clear representation of the theme fate vs. free will. Macbeth is trying to make it sound as if he feels sympathetic and forced to kill the king but, he could easily could easily do the right thing and back out. Reading deeper in these self-contradicting quotes, they reveal the themes, fate vs. free will and appearance vs.…
Although one may believe Macbeth’s actions are an act of fate, his actions are entirely based on his free will. Macbeth willingly trusts the witches’ prophecy although he realized their wickedness. In the beginning of Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth and Banquo confront three witches…
All in all fate had a little role in Macbeth’s choices but if free will is what lead him right into the…
When it comes to literature, people will often analyse a character 's fate. More specifically, whether said fate was determined by destiny or free will. In Shakespeare’s tragic play Macbeth, scholars will often debate whether Macbeth himself has his fate sealed by his destiny or by his own free will. Although his fate may be predetermined, Macbeth uses his own free will to decide how he will fulfill his own destiny. Macbeth determines his own fate through the murder of King Duncan, the murder of Banquo and the slaughter of Macduff’s subjects.…
The Macbeth is a helpless victim of fate, some others might think he was in control of his own destiny but he was influenced and pushed to speed up his fate. Shakespeare was showing us how power can change everything and how the work of destiny plays out. Throughout the story shakespeare has shown so many ways of destiny, but the death of duncan, the witches and the final battle is where it has significance. After Lady Macbeth convinces her husband to kill duncan in order for him to become king macbeth has a soliloquy where he distinguished the rights and the wrongs about what he 's about to do. “Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?…
Free Will or Fate People can influence others, despite the fact that they can achieve the goal of persuading people into thinking another way, oneself is not force-fed into making any actions that one decides to make. Everyone is born with free will, sometimes a person can not control what happens, but they do have control over the choices they aim to make. The choices one makes practically determines their fate. Macbeth made some poor decisions and let people influence him and that led to his ultimate downfall. Macbeth retains free will, although at times he allows the witches and even Lady Macbeth to persuade him, he is the reason for his own fate and downfall.…
In Shakespeare’s Macbeth the witches informs Macbeth of his fate that he will become the king in the future. Macbeth believes the witches words and Lady Macbeth persuade him to become the king and murder all the people that get in the way. Shakespeare shows us that fate is complicated by our actions, Macbeth will do anything to meet his fate that in the end lead him to his death because of his greediness.…
Macbeth’s ambition and pride results in his demise. Fate and free will feed into each other however, humans chose to pit them against each other because we often see as one working for us and the other against us. However that is not always the case as we see from Macbeth, without realizing it we often act to fulfill our destiny and other times we act to change it, but what we do not realize is that fate is the final destination but how we get there is up to us. Macbeth does not see this, and that is what the knowledge of our fate does to us, we become blinded by ambition and pride that our ability to think clearly escapes us. He thinks that he can only have one or the other; Fate or free will, but truly we have to use both for either of them work in our favour.…