do, however, have the capability to change theroute which Macbeth takes to reach the throne and thus the aftermath of his rise. Whether Macbeth's rise to power and his decline are directly the fault of the witches,fate does seem to play a major part. Fate does not, however, seem to be anall-encompassing aspect of some superior being, but more or less the embodiment ofhuman lust and greed. Every time Macbeth finds out information from the supernaturalabout his future, he acts directly on it. By taking the predictions of his success, bybelieving the warnings of his doom, and by trying to act upon and turn each to hisfavor thereby bending fate's will, Macbeth does nothing more than solidify fate's holdon him. For every thing Macbeth does only increases the quickness with which his fatestrikes him down. Macbeth takes every one of the apparitions and foreshadowingstatements of the supernatural beings, known as the weird sisters, as absolute truth.Had Macbeth been a strong and individualistic man, he would have never attained sucharrogance as to claim that no one of natural birth could kill him. While this arroganceallowed him to fight with admirable courage at the early part of Malcolm's invasion,this same arrogance and human imperfection was again his downfall when he becameterrified of MacDuff and lost the battle that resulted in his decapitation.While fate can be viewed as something that cannot be altered, the only way a strongperson would ever use fate is to his or her advantage. To use fate as a source of stabilityand grounds for faith in one's own self and one's own abilities is a positive use of fate.However, becoming over confident in or basing one's few momentous decisions on faterather than fact is not a wise undertaking. Fate is like religion and any other belief basedon intangible ideas: it can be a good excuse to not take control of one's own life andone's own decisions. When fate supersedes free will, then chaos is bound to fo...
