Fate And Free Will In Shakespeare's Macbeth
Fated events are like immovable points on a graph. On the other hand, there are many functions that can intersect the point, yet fate does not predetermine which function is graphed, that is chosen by the free will of a person. In the Jacobean tragedy, Macbeth, by Shakespeare, Macbeth is given his fate by a group of duplicitous witches. Macbeth is informed he would become king, but Macbeth’s irresistable want for the crown, and the influences of his wife is the beginning of Macbeth’s path of blood. Even with free will Macbeth loses control when emotions and influences control his decisions.
The events of the Macbeth’s treason is derived from the words spoken by the witches. The witches in Macbeth are inspired by many factors. The belief of …show more content…
Macbeth’s faith in his fate is not misplaced, if for a moment he truly thought about the reasonable approach to his fated kingship, he maybe could have avoided a lot of blood. Not once in the first encounter with the witches did they ever say about Macbeth committing murder, and committing to murder. The third witch tells Macbeth “That shalt be king” (1.3 48) but none of the three witches said anything about killing. Although the three witches reveals to Macbeth of his future, the witches always speaks in duplicity “Fair is foul, and foul is fair ” (1.1. 12) therefore, their true intentions could be seen as ambiguous. Their duplicity in speech is a great way to characterises their double nature, as they on the exterior are seen as strange women who can foresee the future, but in truth they are tricksters. The witches are masters of feeding people of half truths in order to play with them. Hecate describes the witches as disobedient with words like, “Saucy and overbold” (3.5. 3). Hecate says the witches are disobedient because they did not tell her about their interactions with Macbeth and how they fed him “riddles and prophecies” (3.5. 4) further proving that the witches are tricking Macbeth onto a course of evil. Furthermore, Hecate uses the term “wayward son” (3.5. 11), a wayward is a person who is disobedient, or has turned away from the right action, suggesting that
The events of the Macbeth’s treason is derived from the words spoken by the witches. The witches in Macbeth are inspired by many factors. The belief of …show more content…
Macbeth’s faith in his fate is not misplaced, if for a moment he truly thought about the reasonable approach to his fated kingship, he maybe could have avoided a lot of blood. Not once in the first encounter with the witches did they ever say about Macbeth committing murder, and committing to murder. The third witch tells Macbeth “That shalt be king” (1.3 48) but none of the three witches said anything about killing. Although the three witches reveals to Macbeth of his future, the witches always speaks in duplicity “Fair is foul, and foul is fair ” (1.1. 12) therefore, their true intentions could be seen as ambiguous. Their duplicity in speech is a great way to characterises their double nature, as they on the exterior are seen as strange women who can foresee the future, but in truth they are tricksters. The witches are masters of feeding people of half truths in order to play with them. Hecate describes the witches as disobedient with words like, “Saucy and overbold” (3.5. 3). Hecate says the witches are disobedient because they did not tell her about their interactions with Macbeth and how they fed him “riddles and prophecies” (3.5. 4) further proving that the witches are tricking Macbeth onto a course of evil. Furthermore, Hecate uses the term “wayward son” (3.5. 11), a wayward is a person who is disobedient, or has turned away from the right action, suggesting that