Macbeth: Impact of Individual Choices

Shakespeare organized the play Macbeth using characters that made specific choices. The characters' individual choices affected the outcome of the whole play. The decisions made by one character can influence another character's, which, in turn, causes things to change. The play Macbeth is a tragedy, therefore, there must be many bad choices made by the characters to cause such terrible things like death to happen to them and others in the play. The characters' choices …

…is restored in Scotland. Macbeth's major decision that caused his down fall was to believe what he was told by the witches' and act on it. The whole play was based around that decision, it would have been totally different if Macbeth had decided not to murder Duncan. All these decisions influenced other character's choices altering what might have happened. Shakespeare created a tragedy by having his characters make a great number of bad decisions.