fate and free will by Macbeth

fate and free will by Macbeth

Free Will Isn't Free

Could Macbeth choose his own path in life or is it already planned?

Everything he does in his life is already planned out. It is destined for

what happens happened in his life. He still has his free will, but no

matter what everything is bound to happen as it were destined to. His

destiny is still a step ahead of him. No matter what his decision is, even

the three witches can foretell his future. Every decision that Macbeth

choose was on his free will and his fate is already destined for him ahead

of times.

The three witches knew everything before hand. Therefore, they could

foretell who would be the destined one and be king. They knew the

exact time and place in which they were suppose to encounter the

future king. They knew Macbeth would be ordained to be this future

king. They told Macbeth that he was the Thane of Glamis because he is

the rightful heir "all hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Glamis!" [I, iii,

49], Thane of Cawdor all hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Tthane of Cawdor"

[I, iii, 51] and King of Scotland, "all hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king

hereafter!"[I, iii, 49]. They told Macbeth about the apparitions of the

signs that he would be overthrown off the throne. The first apparition

was Macduff "Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff, Beware

the thane of Fife" [IV, I, 71]. The second apparition is foreshadowing that

nothing woman born shall kill him, "the pow'r of man, for none of

woman born shall harm Macbeth" [IV, I, 80]. While, the third apparition

telling Macbeth not to worry until the forest comes to him and the eight

kings overthrow him from the thrown. "Macbeth shall never vanquished

be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against

him" [IV, I, 92]. So the three witches already know Macbeths destiny and

his decisions.

When the witches told Macbeth that he was going to be king, he was not

patient enough to wait, hence, wanted for him to be king right then. He

discussed the ordeal to his wife about the three witches warning him

and how things started to take its course. His wife started planning evil

deeds that would get her husband Macbeth in hopes that he would be

thrown. Together they planned and killed the grooms and the King. They

also had Banquo killed because he was getting suspicious and was a

witness to Macbeth's evil deeds. In addition, Macbeth was afraid that

Banquo was going to ruin everything so he killed Banquo and tried to kill

Banquo son Fleance, but he got away and fled away. Macduff fled to

England leaving his family behind. Macbeth had people come and kill

Macduff's family, even the children "he has killed me, mother: run away,

I pray you!" [IV, iii, 84]. Macduff left his family making his wife think that

he was really a traitor and has deserted his family. When the witches

foretell Macbeth's future, they did not say anything about killing anyone.

It was Macbeth decision to kill everyone who was in his way and the

thrown.

The witches told him of all the ways that he could fail to keep his title as

king. They did that by the three apparitions. The first apparition was to

beware Macduff. Macduff does not have that much power but he could

bring powers together to take down Macbeth. The second apparition is

nothing that is born from a woman could take him down. But then

Macbeth should of thought about things more clearly, it is not what it

always seems like "fair is foul, and foul is fair." What Macbeth did not

know is that Macduff is not woman born. He was born by a saserial

section, also known as a "c-section." It is when you open up the woman's

abdomen to get the babe out. So ending up, Macduff does have the

power to take Macbeth off the thrown. The third apparition is when the

forest comes for Macbeth. Macbeths knows that forest can not move so

then he would always have his title as king. But then the forest did come

to him one day. Soldiers disguised with tree and branches together as a

forest moves closer to Macbeth. So the forest was moving in to

overthrow Macbeth. So everything is already destined to happen.

Macbeth's fate is already destined, even if it was his own free will to

choose his life, but his fate is already mapped out no matter what

decisions he makes. Macbeth's free will is his destiny. He can not change

his destiny even if he tried to change his evil actions. Even if he did not

kill, he would end up king and would be overthrown because he would

always have corrupted intentions. Whatever he does in his life, his

decisions or his actions, it is already destined to happen.