The Rice Crispy Macbeth Paradox
In the novel Macbeth, Shakesphere takes the reader on a journey through Macbeth's corruption as a human being. The scene that catalyzes the corruption of Macbeth is most arguably the third scene in act one, where Macbeth is greeted by the three witches and is given his fortune as a future king. Without being directly told by the witches what he must do to become king, Macbeth begins to formulate the murder of King Duncan in his mind, which later on facilitates his own insanity. The witches act as a omniscient puppet master, that indirectly controls peoples fates. In the beginning, one of the witches says that when she asked a lady for nuts, the lady refused, so the witch decided to ruin her husband's life. The witch incited the woman's refusal and consequently gave her a fate of being a widow. If we want to put things in a much greater context, let's talk about quantum mechanics. Erwin Schrodinger devised a thought experiment where his cat is in a box with a small...