Free will in Macbeth - Praneeth Lakshman, Tiffin School

The stance that Macbeth’s free will, and by logical extension his own actions, is the foundation of his impending downfall is not an unpopular one to hold. On first reading of the play and its unfoldings, such a view might promise to be the most entertaining to follow along. The belief that the agents in the story have full control over their actions ignores the futility that might be proposed instead by the inclination of predetermined fate, but such a view itself is not dismissable from