Jordan Kelly
British Literature/Composition
Period 6
13 December 2013
The power of the pen and the author wielding this scepter of imagination are literature’s deities. With the flick of a wrist, one can manipulate time, space, and destiny in any given article of literature. Similarly in the “Tragedy of Macbeth”, William Shakespeare uses this capacity to control “fate” in the character progression of Macbeth through the use of the three witches.
The plight and downfall of Macbeth was catalyzed by the three weird sisters, the witches. Since the beginning, they had plotted to submit their prophecy to Macbeth, sending him on a one-way-ticket to death through the relentless tyranny emitted from the pores of his disillusioned soul (1.1.1-10). Tangentially, in Macbeth’s moment of desperacy, the witches foretell him of his downfall, through the means of euthanasia (IV.1.13-54). Moreover, it is their interference that shaped Macbeth’s ambition into the twisted megalomaniac that he became prior to his death.
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