Caliana Hoffmann Mr. Knapp English, Per 6 21 March, 2022 Macbeth Essay Is free will a choice, do you decide for yourself if you are going to let something control your life or are you going to take control and make decisions for yourselves? The concept of free will has been questioned throughout recorded human history. Shakespeare gives an example of this in his play Macbeth. In the play, Macbeth the three witches play an important role. They give Banquo and Macbeth prophecies determining the characters' fate. Even though the witches play a big role, Banquo and Macbeth are the only characters to ever see them, leaving us to wonder if the witches are even real. The prophecies the witches give set up the storyline for the rest of the play. In the play, the characters start to make decisions based on what their prophecies said. The characters seem as though they have free will and they are making decisions on their own, yet it’s all to make the prophecies come true. Do they have control over their lives and free will or are they being controlled by the prophecies and the witches? Macbeth …show more content…
Throughout the play, Macbeth and Banquo encounter the witches but are left to believe no one else can see them. An example of this is after Macbeth meets with the witches. “Saw you the weird sisters?”– Macbeth “no my Lord”.– Lennox (Act 4. Sc. 1). McBeth is unwell, and this is known through other things he has seen in his imagination, are the witches made up as well. The characters that can see the witches want the prophecies to be true, they want to believe them so badly they probably made them seem real. The prophecies do come true, but what if the characters did not believe in them would the prophecies still have come true. That is why the witches are manifestations of the character's desires. The characters decided that the witches are real and by doing so they become real to