How Does Macbeth Control His Fate

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Many people make decisions or perform certain actions throughout their lives striving to produce a specific outcome or control their fate. Sometimes this outcome is not achieved. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, an ambitious soldier commits horrible deeds in order to rise through the ranks and establish his kingship, which turns into a tyranny. Throughout the play, almost all of the choices Macbeth made were to help him reach the specific outcome he wanted for his life. Through the decisions Macbeth makes to try and change his fate, Shakespeare is able to portray the message that free will does not truly exist, rather every choice made in life leads to a predestined end.
Shakespeare uses the murder of Banquo and the attempted murder of Fleance,

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