Macbeth’s Own Controlled Demise All throughout the play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, the main characters play with the thought of predestined fate and their own free will. Macbeth, a great war hero, destroys his own conscious and future trying to fulfill the prophecy three mysterious witches gave him. After Macbeth was given the prophecy from the witches, all of his actions from that point forward were to achieve fate, but if the witches would have never crossed his path Macbeth would have never killed Duncan or become king. Macbeth would have never killed Duncan or have tried to become king, if the witches had not painted a picture in his mind that he was chosen or predestined to take Duncan’s position as king. Macbeth was loyal to king Duncan and loved him; he would not have even thought of killing him otherwise. All throughout the first act Macbeth is trying to talk himself out of even thinking about harming the king. Macbeth, …show more content…
Lady Macbeth, after finding out about the prophecy given to Macbeth, would push him greatly to kill the king and take his predestined position as king, “ Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crowned withal.” (Mac,1.5.28-33). Lady Macbeth is the only reason he followed through with the murder. We have further proof of this when Macbeth describes Duncan before killing him, “Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been. So clear in his great office, that his virtues. Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against. The deep damnation of his taking-off ” (Mac, 1.7.16-20). Here Macbeth shows his