Macbeths Free
Will The book Macbeth by William Shakespeare is about a man in
Scotland who after hearing a prophecy from three witches decides to
kill the king of Scotland in order to become the king. Macbeth
becomes the king of Scotland after he kills King Duncan who is the
previous king. After he does this, he goes on a killing spree and
kills many other people. Since
Macbethkills so
many people, many people do not like Macbeth, two of which are
Macduff and Malcolm. These two have had their family killed and
seek revenge on Macbeth. To do this, they build an army from
England and fight Macbeth eventually leading to Macbeths death.
During this time of death and fighting, Macbeth exercises freewill
by choosing to kill Banquo, follow the witches prophecy, and to
kill King Duncan.
Macbeth possesses free will and exercises it when he
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As Macbeth is
heading over to King Duncans room, Macbeth sees a floating dagger
what he does is the biggest example of him using his free will, Is
this a dagger which I see before me
art thou a dagger of the mind,
a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? I see
the yet, in form as palpable as this which now I draw,
(Shakespeare 2.1). This is the perfect example of Macbeth
exercising free will because he chooses himself to draw his dagger
nothing makes him, but only prompts him to. Macbeth didnt have to
do what they floating dagger prompted him to do, but he decided to
do it anyway. Macbeth was already going to kill the king before the
dagger prompted him to which can be seen on lines 43-44 when
Macbeth says, Thou marshallst me the way that I was going, and
such an instrument I was to use, (Shakespeare 2.1). Once again,
this shows that Macbeths mind was already set on killing Duncan,
the floating dagger had no influence on him. This example provides
clear evidence that Macbeth has free will and that he
exercises
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