Macbeth's Freewill of Choice

William Shakespeare`s Macbeth tells audience a play of murders and sleepless nights. Macbeth is the thane of Glamis and a mighty general of Scotland. Macbeth is predicted to be the king of Scotland. However, the King of Scotland,King Duncan, is alive and is a good king to not to be murder by his people. Macbeth kills King Duncan and he becomes king with the fear of everyone killing him. Therefore, he kills anyone that is suspect to kill him. Macbeth becomes progressively more evil as the play continues.

The play Macbeth is about true ambition and powerless character. Macbeth, the main character of the play, has a weak and convincible personality. Throughout the play other characters such as his wife, impact his hideous actions and paranoid mind. Once the three witches tell Macbeth about his fortune and becoming the new king, Macbeth isn't as convinced to take the risks of earning the position which consisted of killing the current king Duncan. His wife on the other hand believes it's the perfect solution.

Through the soliloquy, the audience gains insight into Macbeth’s innermost thoughts. He names multiple reasons as to why he should not kill King Duncan, noting that Duncan is his guest, kinsman and a good king. He also admits that the only motive he has is the “Vaulting ambition” residing inside of him. Here he names his own hamartia, his fatal flaw, and acknowledges that to give in and commit such a deed, would result in his “deep damnation”. While still undecided on the matter, Lady Macbeth enters, and, seeing his indecision she decides to manipulate him into the decision that suits her; for after all, she is almost if not as ambitious as her husband. By questioning his manhood, his bravery, even their marriage, she successfully leads him to make the choice to kill the king. We now must realise that although the witches’ prophecies and Lady Macbeth’s taunts were a catalyst for Macbeth’s treachery, they never force him to make these errors in judgement; it must have been something that was already inside of him that caused him to decide this. There must have been some inherent evil already a part of his character.

   Destiny "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." (William Jennings Bryan) Are we in control of our own destiny, our own fate, or are our lives really already planned and mapped out for us? Does Macbeth willfully choose evil in order to achieve his "destiny"? Or, is his "destiny" doomed by the witches' prophecies? Macbeth may not have made any of his same choices, if the three Weird sisters hadn't come to him. In Shakespeare's play Macbeth, Macbeth is no pawn of fate. Although Macbeth was destined to become king, the path he chose to take to achieve his aspiration of obtaining the throne was of his own free

In many stories fate is said to determine the paths that people lead in their lives. However, even though some events can seem like fate to the people experiencing them, these people always made their own decisions that led to them. Although some of the events in the tragedy Macbeth by William Shakespeare may lead readers to believe that fate determined many of Macbeth’s actions, the truth is that Macbeth made all of the decisions in the story through his own free will.

After hearing the prophecy that he will become king, Macbeth resolves to leave his future up to fate proving his pride and prestige are very important to him. Once he is told of Malcolm being named successor to the throne, Macbeth decides that if he is going to reach his goal he cannot leave it up to luck. Again Macbeth’s resolve to murder Duncan wavers when he leaves the grand banquet to assess his situation and decide whether he wants to proceed. His arguments include wishing to keep his honor and not kill Duncan for Duncan is there ‘in double trust’. Thus, Macbeth is shown to be clinging to his honor. Finally, Macbeth must stand his ground one last time against his wife who uses tact to emasculate Macbeth. In his final attempt to stop the whole ordeal before it can start Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth that he does not want to ‘cast aside’ the honor he has just recently received. Unfortunately, Lady Macbeth will have none of what her husband is saying and so convinces Macbeth to follow through with his plan of murdering King Duncan. Hence, the audience is given the first example of how powerful selfish motives are and how quickly they can spread to others along with cause them to perform unthinkable

Macbeth’s desire to become king and take the crown from King Duncan ends up hurting him more than helping him. Initially, Macbeth was against murdering King Duncan and didn't think he could do that to his very own king. Lady Macbeth believes that her husband will not go through with his plan however he does end up killing him. She states “Yet I do fear thy nature; It is too full of of the milk of human kindness. As he kills the King he starts to see things like the floating dagger and that seems to make him extremely

Throughout the story of Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, Macbeth acts in a much despised manner: he becomes a murderer and later, when king of Scotland, a tyrant. Many who have read or seen the play are left wondering how a man’s whole approach to life can change; how Macbeth turned from the hero whom all adored, to the tyrant who was hated and ended up a lone man, fighting for his life.

Macbeth killed five innocent people to get to the top. He then met the downfall of his wife and himself. He wanted to be king so Lady Macbeth helped him get there and doing this would allow him to take on the position of ruling. Macbeth is the husband of Lady Macbeth who has made some not so good decisions in order to take on this position.This both drove them to complete insanity. The thought of killing King Duncan crossed Macbeth’s mind, Lady Macbeth’s persuasion techniques are ultimately responsible for Macbeth’s decision to follow through with the murder.

Macbeth’s ambitious ways takes over his whole inner self throughout his time of first wanting to be king. Macbeth was thought to be a great leader and war hero before he was king. Macbeth was hatched an idea by three suspicious witches in whom he had never come in contact with before. They told him that he would one day become King of Scotland. After the witches disappeared, he got to think a lot about what they told him and pondered the words they spoke. Macbeth sends a letter to his wife about his feelings of what he had heard. When Macbeth returned back to his castle his wife wanted to lead him down a dark path and feed his ambition. Macbeth decides he wants to go after the crown after consulting his wife. "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on th'other...." (Act I, scene vii) This shows that Macbeth’s only reason to kill Duncan is for his ambition. Macbeth ends up killing Duncan. The way Macbeth killed Duncan made it a great crime scene. Macbeth still

One of the main themes in 'Macbeth' was ambition. Shakespeare wanted to show how an unchecked ambition such as that of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's can be a destructive force. While teaching positive values that can easily impact the whole of humanity. Even though Macbeth started out as a noble and honorable man, the idea of being powerful and the idea of sitting on a throne corrupted his sole. He gives up everything he had and surrenders to the need to get what he wants. Though, even once he had secured the crown and has indeed become King of Scotland, it is not enough. He becomes paranoid with his guilt but continues to kill innocent people that he perceives as a threat to his kingship such as his best friend Banquo. Macbeth's greed is generally addressed negatively and has a great impact on him as it turns into his downfall. It is clear that Shakespeare's characters are very much like you and me, regardless that they are kings, queens or noblemen and women, we students can relate to them. "I have no spur/ To prick the sides of my intent, but only/ Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other." (Act 1, scene 7) Macbeth is being honest with himself, admitting there's no good reason to kill Duncan, as Duncan is a perfectly good king. To relate this to today's world, business men/women, workers and politicians who have started from the bottom and have created a life for themselves were ambitious at the

One question that remains in Macbeth is: are the events of our lives predetermined, or do our actions change the course of our lives? During Macbeth, the play questions the thematic aspects of fate and free will. Is it Macbeth’s fate to become a traitor and a murderer, or did he freely choose to make these actions? The play emphasizes the prophecies of the three witches given to Macbeth, and his initial response.

Throughout Macbeth, Macbeth makes many key decisions that impact on his destiny in the play. But are the decisions Macbeth makes from his free will or the fate the three witches have chosen for him. Upon the opening of Macbeth, we encounter these three supernatural women discussing Macbeth, we can assume that these women have an interest in Macbeth and are going to be involved later on in the play. The fate of Macbeth is first discussed upon Macbeth's first meeting with the three witches. The comment "so foul and fair a day I have not seen 

In the Shakespearean tragedy Macbeth, the theme Fate vs. Free Will is shown throughout the play in many different ways. The main person that this theme relates to is Macbeth, specifically when he makes decisions on how to become king and take over Scotland.

“I have no spur to prick, the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other” (1.7.25--28). In other words, his ambition is the only reason why he will kill Duncan. Whether he wants to be successful to please his wife, Lady Macbeth, or has his own desire to be king, he still has ambition. As this is a positive quality for most, on the other hand it’s a tragic one for Macbeth. Ross says Duncan’s two sons wasted their ambition,“Gainst nature still! Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up thine own life’s means” (2.4.39-40). However, he’s describing Macbeth who is the real murderer of Duncan. Ross believes it is greedy of the murderer to kill Duncan because of their own ambitions. “They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly, But bear like, I must fight the course” (5.7.1-2). Macbeth is desirous of winning, otherwise he would not take on soldiers alone. If he was worried about protecting his own life, he would gather an army of his own. Consequently, his ambition causes him to be a rash thinker, or in other words jump into things quickly without thinking. His ambition is dangerous, and is what ultimately leads to his