Since mankind’s conception, humans have always desired to control their own fate. In Richard Wright’s Black Boy, he goes against society’s “control” over what he should be. It is also a key principle in our American rights, which dictate that individuals have the “right to the pursuit of happiness”. Most often for others, happiness is found through a large sum of wealth and power; most of the wars in our world are fought to increase the acquisition of such. Man’s greed is also attributed to be his own folly, which holds true to Macbeth. One may consider the Weird Sisters, Lady Macbeth, or even Duncan himself as responsible for his own murder. However, while The Weird Sisters and Lady Macbeth certainly played a role in Duncan’s death, Macbeth was solely responsible for his murder.…show more content… In the beginning of act one scene two, Macbeth and Banquo meet the Weird Sisters shortly after their victory over Macdonwald and the Norwegians. The witches address Macbeth as Thane of Glamis and Inverness, as well as their king, while they claim that Banquo would father many kings. Macbeth then questions the nature of the prophecy, and wonders
“if good, why [does he] yield to that suggestion/Whose horrid image doth unfix [his] hair/And make [his] seated heart knock at [his] ribs/Against the use of the nature? Present fears/Are less than horrible imaginings./[His] thought, whose murder is yet but fantastical,/That function is smothered in surmise,/And nothing is but what is not,” (I.iii, 147-155).
This indicates that Macbeth has thought of becoming king, but that he may have to act upon the throne at the earliest
