fate vs free will

passive, hopeful

“If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me without my stir.”

resigned, patient

“Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.”

determined, resolute

“I am settled, and bend up each corporal agent to this terrible feat.”

paranoid, desperate

“To be thus is nothing; but to be safely thus.”

trapped, irreversible

“I am in blood stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'er.”

nihilistic, beak

“Out, out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage.”

cautious, deceptive

“The instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray 's in deepest consequence.”

hallucination, temptation

“Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.”

suspicious, foreboding

“Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, as the weird women promised, and I fear thou play'dst most foully for't.”

ambitious, self-aware

“I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other.”

curious, prophetic

“If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me.”

secretive, determined

“Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires.”