The image suggests, further, a shameful helplessness; it suggests entrapment, the commitment of the passionate being to his passion, but never the commitment of the passive being to his "fate." Common judgments of Antony are perplexed, or at best mixed. He is not a tragic figure in any recognizable sense; he may yearn for "the love of Love, and her soft hours" in act 1, but in act 4, at death, he will not yearn for more than this.
In the first scene of Macbeth, we are introduced to three witches. These three witches proceed in the third scene of Act I to tell Macbeth of three prophecies: He will become the Thane of Cawdor, the King, and already is the Thane of Glamis. Macbeth is astonished by the prophecies the witches tell him about and wonders if all of them will come true. When Macbeth firsts hears the prophecies he believes he will become the Thane of Glamis and King by chance since this is how he became the Thane of Cawdor. But once Lady Macbeth toys at the idea of Macbeth's manliness and bravery, Macbeth comes up with a plan to achieve the other prophecies the witches told him. The Thane of Glamis, Macbeth, consistently contemplates on these three prophecies since he wants them to become true and then goes and kills King Duncan and other innocent characters in the play. .
After reading the play, we wonder if the witches have any part in the decisions of Macbeth . Hags during this time period could predict the future, add temptation and influence the actions committed by certain people, but they cannot control the destiny of a person. The decision in which Macbeth committed seemed out of his guilt and misery. The impressions propelled him to kill many others until his end. The actions of Macbeth and the other characters were not manipulated by the witches. The great temptation, put on by the three of them, made Macbeth contemplate and it was his decision to fall for this temptation.
