Free Will In Macbeth By William Shakespeare

Shakespeare presents the idea tht fate doesn’t change no matter what you do. But Macbeth truely didn’t believe this. As we can see in the play Macbeth the witches state that, “ Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none so all hail Macbeth and Banquo” (Act 1 Scene 3). Which basically says Banquo won’t be king but his descendants will be. Once Macbeth had relized that his descendants won’t be king(s) he has Banquo killed, which fufilled that Banquo won’t be king, but the murderers that Mabeth hired failed to kill Fleance, which still gives the chance that he or Banquo’s descendants could eventually rule. He so desperately wants to stay in power even through lineage and tries to do what he can to make sure that he gets what he wants, even if it means that one of his close friends would be dead. Then later in the story, Macbeh returnes to the witches in hopes to get more prophecies. After he receives the prophecies he states that “ That will never be. Who can impress the forest, bid the treeUnfix his earth-bound root? Sweet bodements, good Rebellious dead, rise never till the wood Of Birnam rise; and our high-placed

He now thinks that basically because the prophecies have no way of coming true he has nothing to worry about even though the prophecies wouldn’t even be prophecies if the had no way of coming true. He in fact gets so confidant that he decides that he is untouchable, because everyone is “woman born” as well as the the woods can’t march twords the castle. So because he thinks that he is untouchable he decieds to start being reckless almost completely forgetting that his descendants won’t be king(s) and that Banquo’s will, and that is what ultimately gets him killed, many believe that it was Macbeths ambition that led to his downfall, but the fact that he believes that is fate was changed is, just like how the guilt killed Lady Macbeth. Which just shows that Shakespeare gave us the idea thet fate is never