In act 2, Macbeth willingly makes the decision to fall prey to the witches’ trickery and the belief of his wife that this was fated for them. He, within the night, slays Duncan, asleep in his bed. “I go, and it is done. The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell / That summons thee to heaven, or to hell” (2.1.71-73). This line marks Macbeth acknowledging that he slew Duncan in order to claim the “fate” the witches promised. He walked in there of his own free will, besides a little bit of coercion by his wife, and chose to kill Duncan out of his own lust for power. The witches may have exploited this personality trait, but they hardly wrote Macbeth’s fate and forced him to kill Duncan. It was not predetermined, Macbeth could