Supernatural Craze

Did you ever notice that people put much faith and endow those with supernatural ability and supernatural events with too much value therefore disregard their own actions? Even if one does believe in fate and a predestined future, how we get there is entirely up to us. Why do you think that people have free will. We chose to do what we want with our life, even if we end up in the same place. People don't know what to make of the supernatural so it is something we either fear and shun or embrace entirely. Macbeth first wants to shun what the witches have told him, because lets face it their witches, it's hard to trust what they say. Lady Macbeth chose to entirely embrace the spirit world, that of which she knows little about, to aid her in her conquest for power. Obviously we can foresee neither one of these situations working out in their favor.

Macbeth does not agree with supernatural existence even though the witches prophecy works in his "favor." He at first does not want to believe in what they are saying because they are not a trusted source to make a prophecy of such power. Yet the moment one of their prophecies come true he embraces the world just as his wife does. I think that the thing that both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth do not yet realize is that this spirit world will not take care of you or be good to you unless you understand what the world is capable. Which truly is anything. The world may say that you can obtain all of this power but it does not mean that this will happen immediately. Macbeth was given the title of thane of Cawdor, he did no one any ill will toward anyone. So why did Macbeth have to force fate?

"I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself
And falls on th’other." (I. VIII. 25-28)

Macbeth seems to be very impatient about his future. Who is also to say that since the witches got one prophecy right that what they rest are sure to be true? It seems Macbeth catches the supernatural bug. After he kills King Duncan he starts to hear knocks and voices telling him "Sleep no more." It seems to me that Macbeth jumped to the gun and now has a guilty conscious about it. He is slowly driving himself insane and yet believes that all of this is just a supernatural occurrence.

Lady Macbeth on the other hand completely embraces the supernatural world right from the very beginning. I think that she respects this world and just wants to soak in any power that they are willing to give her.

"Come, you spirits

That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty..." (I. V.)

Her grandest desire is power and she clearly will do anything to get that. She wants what she feels that she is rightful entitled too. I believe the spirit realm is something that she has always been intrigued by an not until this moment was she able to invoke. I think that her fatal flaw that comes later in the play is that she does not know exactly what she has gotten herself into. She was intrigued by the darker side yet has no knowledge of this realm to control what is happening like the witches understand. I am also surely that it wasn't socially acceptable for Lady Macbeth to converse with these witches to gain any understanding.

It seems to me that with the exception of the witches, especially Hecate, everyone fears and admires the spiritual world without having any understanding of what this actually means.