"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited
for, it is a thing to be achieved." (William Jennings Bryan) Are we in control of our own destiny,
our own fate, or are our lives really already planned and mapped out for us? Does Macbeth
willfully choose evil in order to achieve his "destiny"? Or, is his "destiny" doomed by the
witches' prophecies? Macbeth may not have made any of his same choices, if the three Weird
sisters hadn't come to him. In Shakespeare's play Macbeth, Macbeth is no pawn of fate.
Although Macbeth was destined to becom…
