Through failure and success there is the sense of fate and free will. Many have trouble coping with the concept of fate versus free will but it’s actually quite simple. When you have a destiny and you’re ambitious, free will will get you there easily. Fate is something that just happens out of nowhere and for some reason it just makes sense that it did happen. Free will is all in your hands. How you get there, what you chose to do in the process and what happens after that. Shakespeare used this element of fate versus free will in his play, Macbeth. Macbeth is the main character with an over ambitious trait, he has a destiny to become kind but who’s to tell what happens after he reaches this destiny. The process & what comes after is all in his hands. In addition, Macbeth sets the theme of darkness and even starts off the play with no good spirit as the three witches basically predict the upcoming events in his life. “Fair is foul, and foul is fair; hover through the fog and filthy air.” (1.1.1-13). Macbeth can 't believe it, he almost refuses to believe anything that the witches tell him about his dark future. With macbeth 's ambition, how could he? He was a warrior and even though he was pushed by his wife, Lady Macbeth to plot and pursue the killing of Duncan the king of scotland, he still had the ambition in him to become king regardless of if it was what he wanted or not. “When you durst do it,” she says, “then you were a man” (1.7.49). Lady macbeth choses a very