“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.” (1.1.10). The famous play, The Tragedy of Macbeth, has fate as a critical role in the play, or that’s what most people believe. In this tragic play, Macbeth conspires with witches in order for him to get what he “is bound” to get in the end anyway. This leads to him being manipulated into killing the King of the nation just so that he can be the new King because the heir to the throne flew the coop. Once Macbeth was crowned, a banquet was thrown to congratulate him on becoming king. Plus, that way, the people could finally know what type of person he was. In the background, Macbeth sent three murderers to kill Banquo and his son Fleance because Banquo was prophesied to have a long line of children and grandchildren …show more content…
All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee. Thane of Glamis!
Second Witch. All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee. Thane of Cawdor!
Third Witch. All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be King hereafter!
(1.3.49-51)
The witches put the prophecies into Macbeth’s head to crumble that perfect exterior of his, and the calm mind that he owned. These prophecies were so stuck in Macbeth's head that he let his greed and ambition fester deep down inside him: “Let not light see my black and deep desires…” (1.4.51). With the knowledge of him going to become king after becoming the Thane of Cawdor, Macbeth wants to take the current king's life in order for him to become king quicker; which is his “black and deep” desire. This was his decision that he made all by himself. Fate had nothing to do with it, but a couple of witches did persuade him into believing that so-called fate was on Macbeth’s side. This is all about Macbeth choosing to follow a path that was suggested to him by some demented strangers that seemed to know what they were talking about
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In real life, there are many different occasions of people going insane or going through extreme situations and ending up killing someone afterward, but sometimes people start to gain a taste for killing people. For instance, there was a killer that went by the name of John Wayne Gacy. This man killed and sexually violated thirty-three boys, twenty-seven of which were buried under the crawl space of his house. Now, what led this man to do such awful things to so many young boys? Gacy grew up in a very homophobic household where he had to hide every interest in males that he had. Gacy would be beaten and would watch as his mother was also beaten when his father was drunk out of his mind. This all happened when Gacy was a child: “One evening, he struck his wife so hard that he knocked out some of her teeth, and then he chased her into the street and beat her some more.” (Wilkinson). In other words, Gacy was highly traumatized as a child. As Gacy grew up, he decided to run away from home to find his older cousin way out of state. This led to him finding a house in Illinois and also a wife. As he was married, when his wife was away he would lure boys into his home and make them work and then would pay them to pleasure him sexually. After each one was done with the sexual part of the deed, Gacy would usually