Macbeth Fate Quotes

The play Macbeth was written by William Shakespeare. It takes place in Medieval Scotland. The main characters are Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, Scottish nobles. Macbeth receives information about his future from 3 witches and attempts to influence his fate. This struggle prompts chaos in Scotland. In the play Macbeth, the fate given to Macbeth from three witches causes him and Lady Macbeth become ambitious and betray their fellow companions. The fate that the 3 witches had given Macbeth does not label him as a helpless victim because he was in control of his actions and therefore responsible of them. In this quote, Lady Macbeth says "Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem to have thee crown'd withal" (1.5.32-33) She is worried that Macbeth

In this quote, “My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, shakes so my single state of man that function is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is but what is not.” (1.3.152-155) Macbeth mentions that the idea of murder scares him. The 3 witches never mentioned anything about murder. The fact that his first thought about his fate is murder is suspicious; almost as if the 3 witches have awoken a murderous ambition. In this quote, Macbeth says “The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, for in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires. The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.” (1.4.55-60) Macbeth is willing to put all morality aside when Malcolm is proclaimed Prince of Cumberland and heir to the throne of Scotland. He knows that killing Duncan in order to become king is wrong which is why is necessary to keep his “black and deep desires” a secret. In this quote “...Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o' th' milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it.” (1.5.15-20) Lady Macbeth reads the letter that Macbeth had sent her and immediately thinks of

After being told that he “shalt be king hereafter”(1.3.53), Macbeth plans to murder Duncan, his friend and a Loyal king. He not only betrays his king but he also betrays Scotland. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth betrayed duncan by inviting him to their house as their king only to be murdered by his hosts. When Macbeth hears Banquo’s fate “Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.”(1.3.70) he gets scared that Banquo will become a threat and therefore decides that his best friend and his innocent son shall be murdered. In this quote, “Our fears in Banquo stick deep, and in his royalty of nature reigns that which would be fear'd.”(3.1.53-55) Macbeth is obsessed with the prophecy of Banquo’s sons being king and only thinks about murdering Banquo, the person he is closest with, when he begins to get suspicious of Macbeth. After the death of Banquo, Macbeth starts to go on a murder spree and no longer involves his wife. In a way his is also betraying his wife by discluding her in all of his plans. Macbeth also betrayed his own nature and conscience when he killed Banquo and Macduff’s