Destiny's Fate: Last Reaction to Macbeth

After I finished reading Macbeth, I realized that it had been a while ago since I last read it because I had forgotten how it ended. The Weird Sisters warn Macbeth about Macduff and about the different events that will take place before his death. Macbeth is very arrogant and he is convinced that none of those things will happen to him.

Shakespeare was very clever when writing the resolution for Macbeth. He uses the weird sisters once again, reminding the reader that these characters also appeared at the beginning of the play and therefore are truly important. The role of the witches represents the superstition of those times as well as destiny. They know everything as if Macbeth’s life were written somewhere. All of their predictions came true, which meant that destiny can’t be changed and that even though people may try to prevent it, at the end, it will happen anyway.

The warnings that the Weird Sisters gave to Macbeth were essential to the final twist of this play. The fact that the woods come to Macbeth is very unreal, but as the army cuts the trees off and carries them towards Macbeth, there is a certain symbolism that represents fate and destiny. The fact that the woods come to Macbeth shows that those things that were supposed to happen will always occur, even if it means that they will take place in different ways. According to this play, fate is meant to happen, but it may do so in various ways, not precisely how it was supposed to occur, but at the end the result will be the same. Macbeth would die if the woods came to him and if a man not born of a woman attempted to murder him. These events did take place and this man did exist, not as precise, but valid. “Tell thee Macduff was from his mother’s womb ultimely ripped.”(Act 5 scene 8 line 19)

The death of Lady Macbeth was one of the scenes that shocked me the most. Her confession of killing Duncan and the regret that she feels is very creepy. The battle that she has against her conscience is very intriguing as begins to hallucinate and have a paranoid behavior. “Out damn spot, out I say!”(Act 5 scene 1 line37) In this line, Lady Macbeth struggles to wash an imaginary spot of her hand. The inner battle that she is having withy herself is what finally kills her. Shakespeare is stating that guilt can destroy a person’s conscience and therefore, their soul. Lady Macbeth is suffering because she can’t live in peace with herself, and the only solution is to die.

Finally, I concluded the Macbeth was an excellent play because it managed to transmit a message as well as to include many elements that at the end all connected to each other in a very innovative way. The characters in this play were also very well defined and their development throughout the story showed perfect examples of human nature. The behavior of us humans is very Machiavellian and the author managed to demonstrate it in this work of literature. Macbeth and his wife believed that “the end justifies the means,” and unfortunately for them, it didn’t last long. They both died and didn’t have the chance to enjoy all the wealth and status they had gained.