Fate And Fate In Macbeth

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a theatrical play in portrayal of how a man’s greed and ambition can ruin lives and cause a catastrophe. How it began was a fortune telling and it ended with a blood bath. As a resolution of the cause, countless people have confirmed that it was all dependent on fate and the chaos was meant to be. However, it is also said if the Fortune was never to be told, then the chaos may have not occurred, and the character’s lives were to be at peace. So, was fate the ultimate answer to a massive slaughter? Or did Shakespeare not believe in such as fate?

Fate is defined as a natural power that causes or controls events and actions and the results cannot change or be controlled. It is a theory created within

The earliest form of fatalism is called theological fatalism. It is the view that lives are under control by powerful beings or spirits that people collect together as gods. The gods may intervene to help or to harm people and thus prevent them from acting as they might. Gods may shape lives by determining the paths people are bound to follow. Greek poet, Hesiod, had explained the idea of the Moirai - the three goddesses of fate; he shared how life was pictured as a thread. Clotho spun the thread; Lachesis determined its length and Atropos cut it. It was believed that the Moirai had power over the lives of mortals but there also was belief that they could exert control over the other gods as well. The earlier Greek poet Homer spoke of Moira - fate - as an impersonal power that influences the lives of the Humans and Gods, which not even they could

Protestantism, an equal belief during that time, was persecuted and people were executed as heretics. The belief was originated from the ideas of theologians starting in the 12th century, yet these ideas were a subject to maltreatment by the Roman Catholic Church, and so was kept isolated up to the 16th century. The citizens fled for safety and freedom to Protestant states in Europe. However, all this changed on the death of Mary and the assent to Elizabeth I in 1558. Elizabeth had been educated as a Protestant and she reversed the religious changes of Mary, sweeping aside Roman Catholicism. Elizabeth was devoted to her faith in Protestantism and followed the aspects of it, even at times of dislike until the end of her