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  • Essay / Knowing the future(s) - 553

    The play Macbeth revolves around many themes including one without which all the others seem useless: does Macbeth control his actions or the predictions of the witches and the apparitions do they control its destiny? While Macbeth's future was predicted as fact, was he still in control of his actions and could he possibly escape the seemingly inevitable death that ended the play. The idea of ​​destiny has entered the minds of many and most seem to have adopted the idea that "I control my destiny." However, this rather selfish statement suggests that the only things that happen to a person are the result of their previous actions. If a person traveling on the highway obeys all the rules of the road and is hit by an eighteen-wheeler, has that person done anything that could cause such an accident? No, this person simply suffered the repercussions of another driver's actions. This reasoning led to the idea of ​​Karma and the statement “what goes around comes around”. This idea finds its fault in explaining the death of a baby, because its only reasoning is that someone else's mistake led to ...