Numerous manners in which one can define fate exist. According to Websters Dictionary, it is a power that supposedly predetermines events, it is synonymous to destiny, suggesting that some actions are inevitable. Regarding Shakespeares Macbeth, fate has a vital role in the lives of characters as Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and Banquo.
The characters lives have been dominated in terms of fate. Each situation they found themselves, that happened/didn't happen to them was a straightforward result of fates layout for them. A situation which applies in real life.
After reading the play for the first time, one might think why Macbeth falls to the depths of evil that he does. In a superficial manner, Macbeth might appear as a victim of fate, including destructive characters such as the witches and his wife leading him in the arms of evil acts. Still, Macbeth is no victim of fate. What goes around comes around! In exchange, he allows destructive elements influence him, lending in a path of murder. Hence, even though Macbeth is influenced by the witches and Lady Macbeth, in the end, he performs as an agent of free will.
Two truths are told,
As happy prologues to the swelling act
Of the imperial theme.
Surrounded by all the female characters, Macbeth takes into consideration murder as a way to accomplish his kinghood: My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical.
After a closer look at Macbeth from a cause and effect standpoint, the witches appear to be an starting point of Macbeths tragedy.
In conclusion, it is Macbeths own fault for allowing this prophecy to take over him into committing murder and corruption.
From a metaphoric point of view, the witches gave Macbeth something to start with, a fire for instance, but Macbeth lit himself on fire and kept feeding with fuel that fire until the point in which he was completely doomed. Therefore, Macbeth being a victim of fate is hardly believed, him being a victim of circumstance is quite absurd. In return, Macbeth “builds brick by brick his own tragic doom, murdering his way to his demise without any strings attached.
Work Citation
1) Feraru, Cornelia. “Macbeth.” Academia.edu, www.academia.edu/36458519/Macbeth.
The characters lives have been dominated in terms of fate. Each situation they found themselves, that happened/didn't happen to them was a straightforward result of fates layout for them. A situation which applies in real life.
After reading the play for the first time, one might think why Macbeth falls to the depths of evil that he does. In a superficial manner, Macbeth might appear as a victim of fate, including destructive characters such as the witches and his wife leading him in the arms of evil acts. Still, Macbeth is no victim of fate. What goes around comes around! In exchange, he allows destructive elements influence him, lending in a path of murder. Hence, even though Macbeth is influenced by the witches and Lady Macbeth, in the end, he performs as an agent of free will.
Two truths are told,
As happy prologues to the swelling act
Of the imperial theme.
Surrounded by all the female characters, Macbeth takes into consideration murder as a way to accomplish his kinghood: My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical.
After a closer look at Macbeth from a cause and effect standpoint, the witches appear to be an starting point of Macbeths tragedy.
In conclusion, it is Macbeths own fault for allowing this prophecy to take over him into committing murder and corruption.
From a metaphoric point of view, the witches gave Macbeth something to start with, a fire for instance, but Macbeth lit himself on fire and kept feeding with fuel that fire until the point in which he was completely doomed. Therefore, Macbeth being a victim of fate is hardly believed, him being a victim of circumstance is quite absurd. In return, Macbeth “builds brick by brick his own tragic doom, murdering his way to his demise without any strings attached.
Work Citation
1) Feraru, Cornelia. “Macbeth.” Academia.edu, www.academia.edu/36458519/Macbeth.
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