Role Of Witches In Macbeth

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At the beginning of the story there is three really abstract witches. They were saying a lot of gibberish and random phrases.It shows you that the story will have both good and bad parts to the story. Thunder and lightning also gives you a hint into the plot of the story it kind of lets you know something really powerful is going to happen.
The witches give a hint that it will be hard to decide between good and evil when they say “fair is foul and foul is fair” The witches also say many other crazy things throughout the story. They may be crazy and hard to understand at times bu they are necessary for the plot of the story. The 3 witches also give us a lot of the mystery and eeriness in the story.
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He also sees great supernatural portents meaning he saw an insight of the bloody dagger used for the murdering of Duncan and his guards. When Macbeth becomes fearful of the witches prophecy he sends a group of men to kill banquo and fleance in fear that they will take over the throne or found out that macbeth killed Duncan. Soon macbeth realizes that Fleance has gotten free and ensues to disappear into the night.Which that then makes macbeth enraged with anger because he has a feeling that his kingship isn't safe with fleance still being around who at any moment could appear and take the kingship away from Macbeth. At the banquet macbeth must attend he starts to see Banquo's ghost and starts acting strange and he fears all of his guests. Lady Macbeth tries to conceal his action but that didn’t work to well. After the little incident macbeth had he went and visited the witches to see what they could show him. The three witches ended up showing Macbeth a series of demons and spirits who then present him with more prophecies. Saying he must beware of Macduff who is not capable of being harmed by a man born from a …show more content…
Like if i just decided hey i’m going to kill the queen of england and the guards nowadays somebody would find out before i even did it and have me put in jail. Not that i’m actually going to kill the queen of england because that would be ridiculous. Also if i had to do the queen's job that would be a lot of pressure because i would never be able to do something wrong or quote unquote have real fun. I also see where Macbeth is coming from when he fought his last battle. Even though he did bad things to earn his spot of Thane of Cawdor he still worked hard for it. So i guess it would make sense that he would fight tell his last breathe for the Throne of Cawdor since he had to do a lot of really bad things to get that position. What i don’t understand is why wouldn’t you wait to be crowned instead of killing all of the people he did. Duncan did name him next in line for the throne so it would have made more sense for him to wait until Duncan either stepped down or wasn’t murdered. I know Lady Macbeth forced Macbeth to kill Duncan but that didn’t mean he needed to listen to his wife considering she was very much psycho

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