Macbeth Big Idea: Fate

In the book Macbeth we have talked a lot about fate. The witches act as fortune tellers in telling what us whats to come, and all the characters become effected by them. In the beginning they tell Macbeth and his friend Banquo what their lives will soon be like. Macbeth becomes greedy and starts to abuse his knowledge of his future. They both try to stop parts of what the witches told them, but despise their efforts the fortune always comes true. This is all hand in hand with the big idea of fate.

Even though Macbeth and the other important characters in the book try to change the events that the witches predict to come its impossible, I believe this has to do with real life as well. Even though there aren't witches in life that tell us what our futures are going to be, I think that when we start out in life we have a plan in what is to happen in the future and it's not really changeable.

Reading/work times:
Monday- Portfolio (15 mins)
Wednesday- Portfolio (30 mins)
Thursday- Portfolio (75 mins)
Friday- Portfolio (45 mins)

Important Macbeth Quote

Act 1. scene 3

Macbeth: So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

• Banquo: How far is't call'd to Forres? What are these
  So wither'd and so wild in their attire,
  That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth,
  And yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught
  That man may question? You seem to understand me,
  By each at once her chappy finger laying
  Upon her skinny lips: you should be women, 
  And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
  That you are so.

• Macbeth: Speak, if you can: what are you?

• First Witch: All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis!

• Second Witch: All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!

• Third Witch: All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!

• Banquo: Good sir, why do you start; and seem to fear
  Things that do sound so fair? I' the name of truth,
  Are ye fantastical, or that indeed
  Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner
  You greet with present grace and great prediction
  Of noble having and of royal hope,
  That he seems rapt withal: to me you speak not.
  If you can look into the seeds of time,
  And say which grain will grow and which will not,
  Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear
  Your favours nor your hate.

• First Witch: Hail!

• Second Witch: Hail!

• Third Witch: Hail!

• First Witch: Lesser than Macbeth, and greater.

• Second Witch: Not so happy, yet much happier.

• Third Witch: Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none:
  So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!

• First Witch: Banquo and Macbeth, all hail!

I think this quote was most likely the most important quote in the entire book. In this quote the three witches meet Macbeth and his friend Banquo and tell them their future. They tell Macbeth that he will be kings of multiple places and that Banquo won't be king, but he will have many sons and sons of sons that will be great kings. This whole "fortune telling" part is basically a summary of what is to come, and foreshadowing what events will happen later on. 

This quote decides the plot of the story because it effects all of Macbeth's decisions later on. He wants to be king so he kills the current king and frames someone else. When he remembers Banquo's sons will be kings he kills Banquo and tries to kill his son. Thats all we have read so far but I have a feeling that since he keeps killing people to stay in power he will only continue, but it will have negative consequences on him in the future.

Reading and work times:

Portfolio- Sunday 85 mins

Sunday- Studying everything for Macbeth quiz (thought we had block one on Monday) 40 mins