fate or chance?

fate or chance?

3. Do you believe events in your life have been guided by fate or chance? Why or why not? Based on the text, what do you think Shakespeare's attitude was towards fate? Does Macbeth have any choice in his actions or was everything predetermined? Use examples from the text as your support.

I believe the events in my life have been guided by chance.  I would like to believe in fate, or the notion that everything happens for a reason, but I do not.  I believe that there can be good found in most things, but that does not mean it happened for a reason.  Most things in my life have been by chance, I believe, because they do not seem to happen for any particular reason.

I think Shakespeare's attitude towards fate was that he did not believe in it either.  Even though the witches in the story seemed to have a prophecy of what would happen in the future I do not believe that meant that he meant for anyone to have a fate.  It is like that video that we watched about "Lady Macbeth-ing someone."  Planting an idea, or a "prophecy", in someone’s mind may make them do that thing or fulfill that prophecy but only because of that person's own actions will that idea/thing ever happen.

Macbeth had choice in his actions, and things for him were not predetermined by "witches".  For example, he chose to kill Duncan, when Lady Macbeth could not.  The witches did not force him to do any of it, even if they may have planted an idea in his head.  However, as explained previously, planting an idea in someone's head is not an act of or part of fate.