time

In act 4 scene 1 we find out that Macduff has fled to England. This makes Macbeth mad so he decides to go and kill macduff’s family that he left behind. At the end of the scene Macbeth says a line that foreshadows the rest of the book. Macbeth says “time thou anticipat’st my dread exploits: the flighty purpose never is o’ertook unless the deed go with it”(170). This is saying that time is the one that will stop him for being able to do things. This is true Macbeth has been doing all these things so that he can be king and stay king but time is running out for him and he must do these things before his time runs out. What Macbeth dose not know is that what the witches have shown him will come true and that his time is going to come to a end and fate has been set and he can not do any thing about what is going to happen.