In Act Two the respected Macbeth, spurred by the witches prophecy steels his resolve to usurp the throne “I go, and it is done.” (II, I. 62). By the end Duncan is dead and the blame laid upon drunken guards framed by the conspiring Macbeth’s.

Destiny is beginning to unfold with a vacancy for King being left and few as fit to rule like Macbeth.