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We all know Lady Macbeth has a hunger for power and deceit, but when she's not plotting schemes such as ways to convince her husband of committing murder, she gotta be catching up on all her fave shows. What shows is Lady M indulging in, you might ask? Let's see... #1. Queer Eye Watching straight men get a total makeover, personality-wise and physically, is something that is always satisfying to watch. Well, Lady Macbeth thinks so too. In Queer Eye, experts Bobby Berk, Karamo Brown, Tan France, Antoni Porowski, and Jonathan Van Ness, take men in need of a lifestyle makeover and basically turn them into a new person in a week. At the end of the week, these men have a party to show off their new lifestyle and look. The close family and friends of these men usually barely recognize them, as they completely upgraded from what they were before. Once Macbeth murders Duncan, Lady Macbeth predicts that he will really need a makeover if he wants to appear innocent. She tells him ...

What controls our life?

Do you believe events in your life have been guided by  fate  or chance? Why or why not? Based on the text, what do you think Shakespeare's attitude was towards fate? Does Macbeth have any choice in his actions or was everything predetermined?  Use examples from the text as your support. In life, we all undergo events and experiences that either fills us with joy or make us wonder: what did I do to deserve this misery? Some of us validate these happenings with chance and some with fate. I'll say, as much as I wish I could just believe that my life has been and is guided by fate, my secular mind cannot accept it. Fate is controlled; it is that things happen because some power intended them to. Chance is that the things that happen are simply just random occurrences, or that happen without design. The way we handle the things that chance throws at us is a matter of choice. I believe that life is guided by chance and the events that we encounter lead us to certain ou...