The essay formerly known as Responsibility Many people have proposed theories on why humans encounter suffering. Some believed suffering was punishment for sins committed in a past life, others argued suffering was just a part of a larger master plan for human existence. In his play Macbeth, William Shakespeare sets forth the idea that individual’s problems are caused by their own decisions. In Macbeth it becomes obvious that Macbeth’s problems are caused by …showed first 75 words of 771 total…

…showed last 75 words of 771 total…he knows to be wrong, and knows will lead to his ultimate failure. A person’s fate is governed by the decisions they make and in Shakespeare’s Macbeth the decisions of Macbeth do lead to his ultimate, untimely demise. The lesson Macbeth teaches all who read it, is that those who allow themselves to be blinded by their ambition, and overtaken by their ego, will pay for the foolish decisions they will invariably make.