Persuasive Essay On Macbeth

You Decide Ever taken a test, and believed with utmost confidence that you would succeed even though not much studying or effort was put into the topic prior to the test? And funny enough you come out with a high score although the odds would say otherwise. I personally am a strong believer that we carve the paths to our own destiny, and that fate isn’t a sealed, but rather is driven by our present thoughts and actions. While we control the ultimate outcome of our timely uncertain future, all we can do is guide ourselves to the most beneficial outcome for us and those around us. This can be seen in Shakespeare’s work Macbeth, where the main character Macbeth was told multiple times what he was gonna become. And through repetition in his thoughts and over-analyzation, he was able to realize that he really did want what the witches had foreseen for him in the future. So he did anything at his grasp to become what he had been told he was gonna be, by tyranting down a path of pain and backstabbing for him and all his
III. 137-142). We can already see him think about doing dirty deeds such as killing the king, with just his first taste of power hell has broken loose in his head and he can barely even contain himself from all the preempted determination to accomplish so. Another passage where similar character development can be seen, and pretty much seal his future was in his battle with macduff. Where he let a past conversation with the witches decided whether he would live or die. Stating such “Accursèd be that tongue that tells me so, For it hath cowed my better part of man!” (V. VIII. 17-18). Unknowingly sealing his future just because a bloody child told him that, that would be his future dooming him to Macduff’s mighty sword. Macbeth changed according to the future predictions foretold by the witches, changing his action and thoughts themselves, ultimately playing as the witches puppet by his own will, only to be doomed by such blind loyalty to their