Fate vs. Choice in Macbeth Essay

Mantilla Fate vs Choices In the play Macbeth, William Shakespeare portrays guilt is caused by what pathway you chose. Macbeth becomes a tragic hero who destroys himself because he lets his ambition, insecurity and ignorance control him and his actions. Macbeth, despite influences of the witches and Lady Macbeth, is the only one responsible for his actions. He did not have a choice whether to perform all the deeds that he did; he did have to listen to Lady Macbeth or the witches and kill King Duncan or anyone else. Shakespeare puts a lot of importance on the fact that Macbeth was just a puppet controlled by the witches prophecies and his wife, but like any human being, had enough choice to influence the pathway of their lives. Ambition can be a good thing, but too much can lead on to suffer due to his actions. Macbeth is shown is a courageous hero of Scotland but his ambition gets the better of him. He is willing to kill anyone who becomes a threat to him, including king Duncan and his good friend Banquo. When the witches gave the prophecies: 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! (1.3.48-50), he already…

The Tragedy of Macbeth written by Shakespeare is based around a single evil act of one man who took action into his own hands. Macbeth wanted to be king of Scotland, and with help from his wife he killed the king and took the throne. To be king of Scotland Macbeth had to make a choice of good or evil, which would affect the rest of his life. This play is filled with choices of good vs. evil and the decisions the characters made decided their fate. Good vs. evil is the most important theme in…

Macbeth play written by William Shakespeare is one of his best known tragedy plays which follows rather a horror genre. The play itself is known to be curse and actors refuse to say “Macbeth” on stage which is why actors refer Macbeth to just the “The scottish play”. The Witches spells and incantations in the play is rumored to be true. True or not, Macbeth’s actions was more than just a spell. The downfall of Macbeth is caused by several events that occurred in his life, although the witches…

Do you believe that fate guides your life or do you think you makes the choices that affect your life forever? In this essay I will explore 2 themes in Macbeth. fate vs choice and ambition. I will aswell show how they lead to his eventual downfall. In the play Macbeth, some people claim that because the witches prophecize Macbeth’s future, and their prophecies come true, fate plays a bigger role in his future than choice. However Macbeth’s actions are actually more affected by his ambition than…

People are left with the wandering thought of whether the events occurring in society are caused by the courses of actions and choices one decides to commit or that it was fated from the beginning. Throughout, centuries the question of whether fate or free will defy one's destiny has been circling around leading it to become of one of the most used topics in literature. In fact, William Shakespeare’s uses the idea of Fate vs Free will in his tragedy play Macbeth. During, the play Shakespeare…

Is Macbeth a victim of fate or freewill? Fate and freewill are two very different things. In the story of Macbeth Shakespeare draws a fine line between the two themes. Macbeth decides on his own whether or not to commit a heinous crime against the king, but is it fate or freewill? There will never be a full answer to this question, but by listening to the witches and believing their prophecies, Macbeth’s ambition leads him to believe that he can act to fulfill his sure fate and decide when it…

Macbeth vs. Lady Macbeth When analyzing and ascertaining the subtle nuances of literature of the renaissance time period, one of the most prevalent and agonistic features to concentrate on is the dynamics of gender roles, specifically between the protagonist of the story and the main “love interest”.Considering the majority of the playwrights written during this zeitgeist operated under the direct control of a dogmatic patriarchy, the protagonists of these stories are usually male, which…

In the case of Macbeth Vs. The People of Scotland, there are obvious reasons as to why he is guilty. Due to numerous situations Macbeth has proven himself to have developed of a psychological (problems) yes, but Macbeth was still in the right state of mind to know what exactly he was doing. Although his psychological pathway lead to his numerous murders, Macbeth should still be held accountable for his actions. The murders of Banquo and The Macduff family members have lead to the conclusion…

philosophies and literary works, the ideas of fate and free will have always contradicted each other, creating tension. The difference between the two concepts is evident; free will advocates choice and the ability to shape your own future, while fate governs your actions for the rest of your life, similar to the Calvinist belief of predestination in regards to salvation. Having such distinct natures, how is it possible for these two ideas to coexist and sometimes merge into one being containing…

Throughout the story " Macbeth" there were many possible choices for a theme but I felt like the best one was the theme of ambition. Ambition is a major theme in Macbeth and it provides the reasoning for the central deed and the results that follow, which eventually lead to Macbeth's downfall. A tragedy is the portrayal of the fall of a great person because of a problem in their character. Macbeth's flaw is his ambition. Ambition is defined as the strong desire to achieve something, and this…