Macbeth

The question audiences often ask after seeing Shakespeares Macbeth is why Macbeth falls to the depths of evil that he does. Superficially, it almost seems as if Macbeth is a tool of fate, with such fateful influences like the witches and his married woman commoveing him towards discharge and evil. In reality, however, Macbeth is no mere pawn of fate. Rather, he freely chooses to let fateful factors influence him to hit and then chooses to keep on murdering. Thus, although Macbeth is influenced by the witches and doll Macbeth, he ultimately acts as an agent of free will.
The witches and Lady Macbeth push Macbeth towards regicide, but this influence does not negate Macbeths culpability. The witches do suggest Macbeth will be king, but Macbeth chooses to listen to them and produces the thinking of regicide. They tell him first that he is Thane of Glamis and that he will be Thane of Cawdor and king. Macbeth comes to trust the witches when he discovers they have been right about his being Thane of Cawdor. Macbeth then begins to believe that he will be king. devil truths are told, / As happy prologues to the swelling act / Of the proud theme (Iiii 9). Thence, Macbeth considers murder as a means to chance on his kinghood. My eyeshot, whose murder yet is but fantastical (Iiii 9).



Macbeths thought of murder becomes much less fantastical after pouf Duncan names his son as the heir to the thrown. Macbeth says,
The Prince of Cumberland!--That is a step,
On which I must fall down, or else oerleap,
For in my steering it lies. Stars, hide your fires!
Let not light see my sullen and deep desires:
The eye wink at the hand! yet let that be,
Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. (Iiv 11)
Although the witches initially suggest kinghood for Macbeth, Macbeth chooses to accept this premise. And, Macbeth, as an agent of free will, fosters the idea of murder. Thus, even the thought of murder cannot be blamed on the witches, but on Macbeth himself. Lady Macbeths role...If you want to get a full essay, hostelry it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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