for, it is a thing to be achieved.” (William Jennings Bryan) Are we in control of our own destiny,

our own fate, or are our lives really already planned and mapped out for us? Does Macbeth

willfully choose evil in order to achieve his “destiny”? Or, is his “destiny” doomed by the

witches’ prophecies? Macbeth may not have made any of his same choices, if the three Weird

sisters hadn’t come to him. In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, Macbeth is no pawn of fate.

Although Macbeth was destined to become king, the path he chose to take to achieve his

aspiration of obtaining the throne was of his own free will. Macbeth knew exactly what he was

doing in order to attain his destiny of becoming king. Although Macbeth was skeptical about the

witches’ predictions he later learned as the play progressed that destiny truly determined his

The prophecy of the witches was that Macbeth would becom

what choices are made. Yet, Macbeth may not have made the same choices had he not met the

prophecy of Macbeth becoming Thane of Cawdor had already come true, enhancing Macbeth’s

and he continued with the murders anyway. He contemplates the reasons for why it would be

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