Fate In Macbeth Essay

As Oscar Gamble once said, “they don't think it be like it is but it do.” This reflects on Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth. In the play, three witches tell Macbeth of his fate. They promise him power first, then tell him how he will fall. Just as Gamble said, Macbeth perceives his fate in the way he wants, but it ends up catching up to him. The play relays the message that people perceive fate only in ways that benefit them. This is shown throughout the play by Macbeth’s reactions to the witches’ predictions; he believes it when it brings him kingship, he tries to change it when it threatens his lineage, and he uses it irrationally as armor after the witches’ final prediction.

At the beginning of the play, the predictions is treated as inevitable.

The second set is much more vague. At the end of the play, Macbeth falsely interprets fate in ways that they would benefit him. This outlook kicks him in his structurally superfluous be-hind. Macbeth impassionedly says, “bring it after me. I will not be afraid of death and bane, till Birnam Forest come to Dunsinane” (5.3.60-62). This is said while Macbeth prepares to fight the larger English army, immediately before it appears that Birnam Forest does look like it moves. If Macbeth was not blinded by the prediction, he may have played more defensively, and would not be out in the open to be killed. Even after something impossible seemed to happen, Macbeth continues to put himself in danger. As he fearlessly battles Macduff, Macbeth taunts him by saying “thou losest labor. As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air with thy keen sword impress as make me bleed. Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests; I bear a charmèd life, which must not yield to one of woman born” (5.8.8-13). Of course, right after, Macduff reveals he wasn’t naturally born, and Macbeth’s demise follows. Had Macbeth been prepared for the impossible to happen, perhaps he would not be in such of a hopeless