Should witches really represent fate? The story of Macbeth informs its readers that they shouldn’t. Macbeth made his own decisions, the witches were just a pawn. Fate is nothing but a person listening to others around them and then making a decision by that. Macbeth showed this at two different points when he met with the witches and again with Lady Macbeth trying to convince him to kill Duncan.
Near the beginning of the story Macbeth runs into three witches who give him prophecies. Macbeth loved and respected his King. The witches told him that he was going to be King and all of the sudden he gets murderous thoughts thinking the witches might be right. “Present fears are less then hor
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All that this is showing is that Macbeth has been submitted to pressure and is listening to it. Lady Macbeth also shows this by making Macbeth feel bad about himself when he doesn’t want to kill Duncan. ” Just because something else told him to he now wanted to kill Macduff. Again, showing it isn’t fate that guides us, but our own actions. Fate is simply your decisions helped by others opinions. The witches and Lady Macbeth showed just how much others effect your decisions in the story of Macbeth.
The witches again show the power of pressure when they later show Macbeth a number of apparitions about his future. He then follows through because she convinced him and he decided to, not fate. Also, Macbeth wouldn’t have even been Thane of Cowdor, causing the prophecy to become true, without his King and others deciding it before hand. Lady Macbeth never would have thought about Macbeth becoming King or killing Duncan had Macbeth not sent her the letter. This shows other people have more influence than fate.
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