Act 4, scene 1

Some thoughts after reading act 4, scene 1: I thought it was funny how Macbeth thought when he was with the three witches that he was in charge. It seems as if now because he is king, he is a lot more confident and thinks he is much more powerful. However, when he is with the witches, who use magic and spirits, he is definitely not the one running the show. He is the one begging for their visions, yet he thinks he can boss them around. Overall I have seen a huge attitude change for Macbeth since the beginning of the book. In the first act he couldn't even stick up for himself with his wife, now he is deciding to kill Macduff and his family (While i think he is just talking the talk with that and will not walk the walk, it still shows a very different mind and moral set than he originally held in the beginning)! Furthermore, I think its also kind of funny that as a king, he is obviously going to have a lot of enemies. However, I do not believe he truly knows the right way to deal with his enemies just yet. Lastly, I believe it is inevitable fate that Banquo's sons and grandsons will take the crown and be passing it down from Macbeth. If fate is in fact inevitable, how will Macbeth live with this? He will just continue to kill anyone who comes in his way and it will make him crazy (crazier than he already is). At the end of the scene he says that he will do this deed before he loses his sense of purpose. I think he already kind of has lost his sense of purpose because if its Banquo's family blood line that will succeed him, then what was the point? Either way, there is no going back now. He has already killed Duncan, which changed him, and he already got people to kill Banquo. Now he does not have a problem with killing people like he did before because he is so wrapped up in fulfilling his achievements.