Choice or Fate (Macbeth)

This study examines the power of nature and the supernatural powers in Macbeth, the last and the shortest of Shakespeare’s great tragedies, and their influence on the course of events in the play. Macbeth is the one of Shakespeare plays that supernatural figures and elements take place at most. The mainstays of the play are developing events as a result of the prophecies of the witches, supernatural powers’ triggering human greed and as a result of this, deterioration, distortion and disorder occurring on the universal order. In this study, in which cases the harmony and balance of nature is impaired, what happens as a result of this deterioration and the perspectives of the people of Shakespeare’s era about the witches were examined with comments by famous critics.

Macbeth might be summarized as a man progressing erratically around power and destruction towards the end, an oversight around disbelief and impetuosity. His own reasons seem to be his goals, his misdoubts, and his resignation to his wife's more competent personality.

Rilale-Uac. Volume 1, Numero 1, 2019

Abstract The prophecy in advance of an action to be taken as well as the death of someone or a relative seems to be most of time a source of fears or a guidance to take as flowchart for the achievement of a goal. Those dimensions of the supernatural seem to be misunderstood by many, and sometime it is subjected to many interpretations. For that purpose, the current research work aims at enlightening on the reminder role the supernatural plays in the accomplishment of a destiny. So, thanks to the Reader-Response theory, the use Shakespeare makes of the supernatural in Hamlet and Macbeth as far as ghosts and witches are concerned are shown and deciphered with the view on how the author exploits the cultural heritage of the country; the beliefs and the superstitions of the Elizabethan era. In short, it is observed in Hamlet and Macbeth that, the ghosts are used as catalysts and mind re-sharper in the sense that the supernatural is always placed in the closest relation with the main characters. Keywords: Ghosts, supernatural, witches, appearance.

Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare written around 1606. Macbeth follows the story of a Scottish nobleman formally called as (Macbeth) who hears a prophecy that he will become king and is tempted to evil by the promise of power. Macbeth mainly dealt with the themes of evil in the individual and in the world more closely than any of Shakespeare's other works.