However Macbeth tries to escape the Witch's wicked, but truthful words, he may also have brought his fate upon himself

However Macbeth tries to escape the Witch's wicked, but truthful words, he may also have brought his fate upon himself. In the early stages of the play, we see Macbeth as a kind noble man, Loyal to his King and others. However after the Witch's predictions he changes and becomes cruel and vile. Although the Witch's predictions play a great part in Macbeth's downfall, he took most of the predictions to the extreme. We know Macbeth was told that he was to be, the king hereafter, how did he not know if he was to wait till the present king died. That may well have been the intent of the prediction, but Macbeth instead murders the king and begins to sink even lower in his evil ways. After this he twist many of the predictions out of proportion, He fears and hates Banquo because he is fated to have his children become kings. Macbeth sees this as a threat and has him and his soon murdered (however Banquo's son Fleance escapes). After this he has Macduff's family killed because of a prediction, this act may not have been what the Witch's had in mind, but only that Macbeth should be wary of Macduff, not have his kids and wife murdered. It seems Macbeth took the Witch's predictions the wrong way, or maybe he took it the way they intended. However this subject is unclear to Macbeth's rash cruel ways and us seemed to seal his fate indefinitely. Macbeth never stopped to view the matter from all sides he rushed into it and in doing this brought about his own death.

The predictions Macbeth knows will always come true. However he knows this he goes on and attempts to change the fate that he knows is going to happen. Macbeth begins to realize that the Witch's are toying with him and attempts to spoil their plans in various ways. At first he plots to kill Banquo and his son Fleance in order to stop the prediction that the Witch's made of Banquo's sons being the heir to the throne after Macbeth. The Witch's did not tell Macbeth that he would do this, they only told him that Fleance would become king after him. This Macbeth attempts to change by having Banqou and Fleance murdered; however Fleance escapes. Was Fleance spared because of his fate? This may be true or maybe he was just lucky he escaped. Also Macbeth is told to fear the Thane of Fife. This he took as Macduff being a threat to Macbeth's life so he plots to have him murdered. However he only managed to have Macduff's wife and child murdered, because Macduff was away seeing Malcolm. Again we see that unseen hand seemingly stepping in to make sure Macbeth doesn't succeed in changing his fate. This is rather ironic because if Macbeth had been successful in killing Macduff he may have lived, however it seems this was not what actually occurred.

As you have seen many events lead to Macbeth's death. It seems to me that Macbeth was from the beginning fated to carry out his fate. Some people may see this differently, but Macbeth the fact is also there that he may have brought about this fate by his own actions. How does one know if Macbeth was meant to kill the king, or wait till after his death. The predictions of the Witch's were just those, predictions. Macbeth took them to the extreme level and ended up paying for it, however we don't know which way the Witch's had intended their predictions to be token. Shakespeare is rather vague on this subject. It seems that many key points were to play in Macbeth's demise however he tried to avert them he was either fated to carry it out or may have just had really bad luck. The Witch's predictions and his own actions and reactions to them caused his death.

Macbeth Essay Can. No.: 3134 David Osborne