Fate In Macbeth Analysis

Fate is that one thing you are destined to do that has been designed just for you. Someone of a higher power designed a specific line of events to happen to you. It is all beyond your control, you did not pick your life, someone else gave you that life. Since the beginning, you were named, and everyone around you starts planning what you will become when you get older. You never really pick something for yourself because things “magically” fall into place; an opportunity presents itself and you take it. Everyone’s life is written entirely as sort of a book, you have the chance to pick the way you think but fate is what ultimately happened to Macbeth. Macbeth, an egotistical man whom in the beginning had no intension of being evil,

He ponders about what he has done, coming to the conclusion that, “Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown/And put a barren scepter in my gripe,” all he did and went through was for Fleance (Banquo’s son). His evilness comes within himself as he plans to eliminate Banquo and his son Fleance possibly changing his own fate. Macbeth has hired three murderers (Banquo’s servants) to take them out. Later that evening Banquo is returning with Fleance, the murderers attack Banquo but, Fleance was able to escape. He escapes because it is written in fate and so he will become king when the right time comes. Macbeth really shows there is no turning back with these lines, “ I am in blood/ Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more/Returning were as tedious as go’er… [We have just begun our killings]. He then finds himself with witches that will tell him more of his own fate. Three apparitions (an armed head, a bloody child, a child crowned, with a tree in his hand) advise Macbeth about his fate. Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff; Beware the thane of Fife… be bloody, bold and resolute; laugh scorn The power of man, for non of woman born Shall harm Macbeth… Be lion-melted, proud, and take no