Would Ya? | Fate V. Chance

Fate, chance, destiny, karma, luck. All of these words are of those that determine and shape your future. I believe once your soul enters the physical world, immediately, there are millions of paths that are set before you and it is up to the person that you become to choose which one you will follow. In terms of what is influencing these decisions, I believe that it is mainly fate that helps to guide your life in the direction it is meant to go.

However, I think in some scenarios is it chance that directs where in life you end up. For example, in February, my mom found super inexpensive plane tickets for my family to go to Paris during spring break. What makes me think that it was chance that guided this event was the situation leading up to the point she bought the tickets, and my family going on the trip a few months later: she was not actively looking for nor was she planning this specific trip for us to go on. Instead, in her free time, my mom likes to look at airline tickets to see if there's a new and exciting place we might be able to go during one of our breaks. Therefore, it was just by chance that she looked on that specific website during that specific time of day to find these super affordable tickets to Paris, France. 

Yet, those "chance" events are usually rare and spread throughout a lifetime. I believe your everyday life is dictated by fate. That the decisions you make during it are made for a reason and what you have chosen to do will allow you to keep on the journey towards your fate. That it is up to you to settle on what path to take to fulfill it. No matter what path you take to get there, you will always end up in the place that you were predestined to be.

When looking at the way Shakespeare presents Macbeth's situation in the play, his attitude towards fate questions the human integrity as he puts Macbeth's character to the test by giving him a prophecy that would go on to create a moral dilemma. By letting Macbeth's fate be known and communicated by 3 witches, Shakespeare creates the physical and magical portrayal of fate. But when you think about it, your fate is quite a magical thing. What is it like to know your predetermined future? Would it impact your actions from here on out? Would you do anything to change it?

Shakespeare explores these questions through the use of Macbeth's story. After introducing the prophecy to Macbeth, Shakespeare utilizes this character in order to discover the chain of events that would occur if you know your future before you have lived it. While following the patterns of human nature, Macbeth endures the challenge of guilt and moral dilemmas of killing a human in order to come into power. Through the use of soliloquies and asides, it is demonstrated that Macbeth had choice in his actions as he was the one to make the ultimate decision to be the one to kill King Duncan. When in fact, all he knew about the prophecy that he was going to be king one day. The path taken to fulfill the prophecy were the choices made by Macbeth, as he saw it as his responsibility to be the one to set things in action to make sure his future would be as predicted.