Fate vs. Chance or Other

To me fate is the end result of something that is in the hands of a higher power, and chance is random factors that happen to someone but that someone didn't have control over it. I like to believe that neither of these guide my life and that the choices I make guide how my life goes. I think chance is the result of preparing the right way and catching a break as a result of the work put in. In sports the hard work leads to lucky breaks. Most of the time the losing team or lazy team doesn't get the lucky breaks. To a certain extent I believe that everything happens for a reason, so in that way I guess I believe in fate. I don't know really, I just live and what ever happens happens and I move on and keep making decisions that put me in the best position to be where I want to be in the future. 

Based on what I've read so far (Act 1and 2) I believe that Shakespeare thought fate played a role in life and impacted how people lived and made choices. I believe Macbeth as person, like not as a character ,had the power to make his own decisions and he could have ignored "fate". However as a character his fate was predetermined by the higher power of Shakespeare. At the beginning of Act 1 the witches set up the fate that Macbeth played out throughout the rest of Act 1 to make come true. The first witch says,"All hail Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Glamis," (Shakespere). Then the second witch says, "All hail Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Cawdor," (Shakespeare). At this point Macbeth is confused as to why he is being called King of two places. He then has an internal struggle and decides that he wants to make the fate as said by the witches true so he has to kill Duncan. Helping to push Macbeth towards fulfilling fate Lady Macbeth pushes him to get him to have the drive to want to take Duncan's place. In Act 1 she and Macbeth have a conversation in which she uses tactics such as comfort, humiliation, and blame to convince Macbeth he has to kill Duncan. 

Macbeth controlled the outcome of his situation. He made the decision to kill Duncan and he didn't have to do that. I think that he let other people get in his head and that caused him to make the poor decision to kill Duncan, not fate. In Act 2 he says,"I have done the deed," (Shakespeare). During this Act he regrets killing Duncan and spends the act trying to convince himself he did the right thing. In Macbeth I think Shakespeare has the main character be driven and in a way obsessed with making fate come true because it reflects on his time and how he felt about the power fate had.