Macbeth Themes: Fate and Destiny

MACBETH THEMES: FATE AND DESTINY

TRAGIC HERO

PATHETIC FALLACIES AND ENVIRONMENT

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In this scene, Macbeth questions himself if fate is really helping him or not.

Thesis

In this scene, thunder and darkness plays a huge role on the idea of fate.

SPEECH OF CHARACTERS, MENTAL STABILITY, AND TRAGIC HERO

In Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, fate and destiny tempt Macbeth to do unnatural deeds, transforming him into a tragic hero. Shakespeare shows that Macbeth’s ambitions foretell his fate and leads him to do unnatural things

~THUNDER~

Macbeth:

Rather than so, come, Fate, into the list,

And champion me to the utterance!

Must embrace the fate

Of that dark hour.

In this scene, Macbeth sees a dagger and contemplates if it's fate that is making him murder the king or not.

STAGE DIRECTIONS OF THE PLAY

TRAGIC HERO

In this scene, Macbeth is warned by the witches and learns more about his future.

In this scene, Macbeth questions himself if fate is really helping him or not.

Macbeth:

Is this a dagger which I see before me,

The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.

I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible

To feeling as to sight? or art thou but

A dagger of the mind, a false creation,

Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

. . .

A bell rings.

I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.

Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell

That summons thee to heaven or to hell.

Thunder. FIRST APPARITION : an armed head

Thunder. SECOND APPARITION : a bloody child

Thunder. THIRD APPARITION : a child crowned, with a tree in his hand

SPEECH OF CHARACTERS

[Enter BANQUO, and FLEANCE with a torch]

Third Murderer:

'Tis he.

First Murderer:

Stand to't.

BANQUO:

It will be rain to-night.

First Murderer:

Let it come down.

[They set upon BANQUO]

BANQUO:

O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!

Thou mayst revenge. O slave!

[Dies. FLEANCE escapes]

Third Murderer:

Who did strike out the light?

First Murderer:

Wast not the way?

Third Murderer:

There's but one down; the son is fled.

Second Murderer:

We have lost

Best half of our affair. 20

First Murderer:

Well, let's away, and say how much is done.

In this scene, Macbeth and Banquo ride on their horses to a heath and meet the three witches who reveal their fate.

First Murderer:

But who did bid thee join with us?

Third Murderer:

Macbeth.

Second Murderer:

He needs not our mistrust, since he delivers

Our offices and what we have to do

To the direction just.

First Murderer:

Then stand with us.

The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day:

Now spurs the lated traveller apace

To gain the timely inn; and near approaches

The subject of our watch.

Third Murderer:

Hark! I hear horses.

BANQUO [Within]:

Give us a light there, ho!

Second Murderer:

Then 'tis he: the rest

That are within the note of expectation 10

Already are i' the court.

First Murderer:

His horses go about.

Third Murderer:

Almost a mile: but he does usually,

So all men do, from hence to the palace gate

Make it their walk.

Second Murderer:

A light, a light!

In this scene, Angus incorporates fate into a speech about Macbeth's royal position.

Kristi Mac, Richard Hor, Sheetal Gounder

Macbeth: [Aside]

If chance will have me king

Why, chance may crown me

Without my stir

Angus:

Now does he feel

His secret murders sticking on his hands,

Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach.

Those he commands move only in command,

Nothing in love. Now does he feel his title

Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe

Upon a dwarfish thief.