Blog Post #6

Question #3

I believe that our lives are guided by faith and wherever fate takes we tend to follow. As in Macbeth, he was told his fate as a king and followed the path into becoming one with the first step being to kill his king and friend Duncan. 

My life has been shaped by fate and destiny. When I was younger, my family and I used to live in North Carolina; however, my parents decided to move back to Syria to live the rest of our lives. I really loved living in Syria. But fate took place and we came back to North Carolina because of the civil war. 

My fate was drawn by unexpected events that happened in my life. Events that I would had never imagined could happen to my family.  These events effected our decisions and forced us to change our plans in life.

I do not believe that chance had anything to deal with what my life looks like right now because I always had the right to come back to North Carolina but I did not want to. However, fate pushed me to be where I am today. 

Many argue that fate is connected with religion. I agree to an extent because fate is unknown and it takes a believer to comprehend the events in their lives as fate and destiny. 

Everyone comes to a point in life where they have to chose between two or more things they did not originally plan them. The same is for Macbeth, he is forced to chose between his loyalty and ID.

In Macbeth, Shakespeare's attitude towards fate is very relevant to the matter of the play. The concept of three witches telling Macbeth his destiny as a king is clears supportive of fate verse chance. 

Also, fate was first mentioned in the play by Lad Macbeth. When she was trying to convince Macbeth into killing Duncan for the sake of his fate, which was determined by the three witches as she says: "Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem, to have thee crown'd withal." (Act 1, scene 5, line 29-30)

The quote shows how Shakespeare uses fate in his play rather than chance. The use of fate shows the religious reference in the play and the religious believes of fate and destiny. Macbeth is influence by what the witches told him, which led him into killing the king because of his thirst for power. 

However, Macbeth decision of killing the king was very risky because Duncan had two sons that would had inherited the thrown. But the fate of the two sons was to run away and live in a different country and Macbeth's fate was to become the king. This shows that the character's fate was predetermined.

As Macbeth says: "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other." (Act 1, scene 2) this quote shows how the character had a choice in his action to kill the king because of his desire to become powerful. 

The play is shaped by both fate and choice, The characters fate was predetermined by the witches; however, their choices are what made the witches prediction of the future come true.