Macbeth's Fall from grace

Question 3 Do you believe events in your life have been guided by fate or chance? Why or why not? Based on the text, what do you think Shakespeare's attitude was towards fate? Does Macbeth have any choice in his actions or was everything predetermined? Use examples from the text as your support.

 Fate:Regarded as determined by a supernatural power

Chance: accidental

I like to think that everything happens for a reason and these things are determined by a higher power. I like to think this way because it gives reasoning and hope when something bad happens.I'm a pretty religious person so I tend to believe that God is the one determining our fate, but that's just what I believe. 

Based off of the text Macbeth, I think Shakespeare did not believe in fate. I think Macbeth was a way of mocking fate and saying that Macbeth could have determined his own life and not be so over powered by the witches. I think that Macbeth did have choice in  his actions. His reasoning behind the murders was that it was destined to happen, so why fight it? But the only way that he would have truly known is if he hadn't killed those people. Therefore, I don't think it was really fate or chance, but his own free will and choice.

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Artist : José Dávila

Title : Topologies of Belief

Date: 2011

Medium:  Pictures

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Location: Mexico

3. Subject/ Inconography

                This piece of art work takes picture of different landscapes and places with pieces cut out.  The concept of this piece is whether or not we can fill in the blanks. The subject is different places and what they lack when parts are cut out.

4. Style/Technique

                I really like how the artist chose to put the pictures into black and white. I think this shows that even with the absence of color we can still make sense of the art. The cut outs give a sense of texture that make it seem to me like the cut outs were further in the distance than the rest of the picture, giving the feeling that they are less important, therefore they can be taking out and the pictures still have meaning.

5. Significance/ Function/ Purpose

I think the purpose of this piece is to show that even without knowing everything we make assumptions. We see this a lot in our culture, when we don’t know the whole story we begin to infer, not always is what we infer correct though. I think this piece is trying to say that while sometimes we can figure out what is missing, other times we can be completely wrong. This is shown through how some of the pictures it is totally obvious what has been cut out and in others it is more difficult. – p.s. sorry ms. Genesky, interpreting art is not my thing.