Honors+Macbeth+Five

=    **Fate vs. Choice**     =

1. For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires. The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be, which the eyes fear, when it is done to see.

2. Beware MacDuff; beware the thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough.

3. Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth.

4. Macbeth shall never be vanquished until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him.

5. Bring forth men and children only, for the undaunted mettle should compose nothing but males.



Macbeth already wanted to be powerful and was already pretty greedy. So when the witches prophesized his fate, he started making "choices" that paralleled the prophecies. He was faced with a lot of opportunity to make his own choices so over time fate was no longer present because he became reckless and power hungry. Your choices determine your fate, but your fate determines your choices.