Fate and Karma Inside Macbeth

Fate and Karma inside Macbeth

It is natural that many of us will find ourselves in some of the worst situations that leave us wondering who’s to blame. The truth is that the misfortunes that hurt us are due to our own actions and sometimes due to our fate or bad luck. Fate is so powerful that it can control a person’s outcome on life no matter how the person tried to stop it. Many people turn out to become the victims of fate just because they tried to peek what their future is going to look like, but they can’t accept their outcome. Macbeth can’t accept the outcome of his fate because he is a human and the play is sure to be a tragedy, therefore he becomes a victim of his own ambitions, eventually karma falls on him and brings him his own death. There were three factors that kept Macbeth from avoiding his fate which are, the prophecies within temptation from the witches and his wife who gave him a push for him to made his choice that lead to his downfall, and what Macbeth tried to do to avoid losing his throne but haste makes waste and accelerate his own death. And at last, the corruption of power and the mislead ambitions cause him to be the victim of the fate. These are all significant parts that affect Macbeth in the play.

The first also the important factor which put Macbeth to a road of self destruction is the temptation from the witches and the help from his wife. In Macbeth the witches are important

figures in the play, as their function is both to predict Macbeth’s fate and to give us a signal for what is to come. For example in Act 1 when they were talking about the sailor and his wife and the first witch said “Although I can’t make him ( the sailor ) disappear, I can still make his journey miserable.” (Shakespeare 4). In this sentence the witches foreshadow their help to Macbeth could be a miserable disaster to him. Then the witches meet Macbeth and Banquo and the wheel of fortune began to rotate. The witches told their peripheries to Macbeth and Banquo, but mixed emotions run through Macbeth’s mind after hearing Malcolm will be the prince and that Banquo’s descendants will be kings. This is the point he started to determine Duncan’s fate. His uncertainty relating to this matter builds upon his guilt of the thought when he said “first of all, I am his kinsman and his subject, so I shall protect him. And he has been such a humble leader; I can’t spur myself to action.”(Shakespeare 14). But then there is his wife. Who is an ambition woman that would do anything to help his husband to gain power, when his husband told her “We can’t go with the plan to kill Duncan.” (Shakespeare 15) she then used reverse psychology by saying he is too weak and also give Macbeth courage by promising all plan will go well and everyone will be fine. Lady Macbeth was cast into a role not entirely of her own choosing; however, like her husband, she eventually finds out once she is on the path of darkness, it is impossible for her to turn back. But her plan of killing Duncan is the push that made Macbeth murder his sleep and a important way of keeping Macbeth’s dreadful fate on the right track.

The murder of Duncan made Macbeth faced all sorts of illusions and bizarre things which