Macbeth Essay- Interplay Between Fear and Foresight

Fear and foresight are two of the many components which have a major influence on many of our life-altering choices, when thinking a decision through. Before an individual is to make a life-altering decision, the fear and foresight components come into play. Foresight is the component in which we make predictions about what the result of our decisions will be, where fear is the component in which we make predictions about all the undesirable results that could transpire from that life-altering decision. Foresight has an extremely strong pessimistic ramification on fear because not only does it provoke disasters but it inspires fear and corrupts an individual as a whole. This greatly impacts an individual’s ability to make vital decisions. Within William Shakespeare’s bloody and tragic play, Macbeth, the playwright conveys the idea that an individual that is inveigled by false foresight, become consumed by fear and make irrational choices, leading to their demises.

When an individual gradually transitions to immorality, their greed overtakes the conscience act of reasoning. Shakespeare uses, Macbeth, one of his characters to demonstrate how greed overtakes, an individual’s conscience act of reasoning. Macbeth, at the beginning of the play, is introduced as an energetic, assertive, and strategic warrior piercing through the Norwegian Army. While Macbeth and his best friend Banquo are returning from the battle, they come across the Weird Sisters. The Weird Sisters begin to praise both Macbeth and Banquo, especially Macbeth. “All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis… Thane of Cawdor… that shalt be king hereafter,” Act I, scene iii, lines 46-48. When Macbeth hears the witches’ prophesy, he becomes really interested in what they have to say, since they’re saying that he will become king. After hearing the witches’ prophesies, Macbeth’s thoughts turn to murder. Banquo becoming curious about his own prophesies asks the witches. “Hail…Hail…Hail…Lesser than...