“Accursed be that tongue that tells me so, for it hath cow 'd my better part of man! And be these juggling fiends no more believed, that palter with us in a double sense” (1.7.17-20). As Macbeth curses the witches thusly for dealing him false prophecies and blames them for his recent downward spiral, we are left with the feeling that he is simply trying to put the fault on anyone but himself, and chooses instead to lay guilt on the witches, presumably the obvious culprit. The easiest thing in life to do is to put liability on anyone else, especially when the people you’re accusing normally have evil intents. It is also a simple task to believe that the crime is the fault of the creepy culprits instead of the good, upstanding citizen. Macbeth
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“Their appetite for mischief is infinite, but what they can accomplish… is limited;” they don’t possess the capability to kill the sailor whose wife brought grief to one of their number, and so they cannot directly bring about any destruction to Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Duncan, or anyone else (Swisher 60). That being said, they are incredibly powerful seeing as they are able to bring back things from the past at Macbeth’s command, and their prophecies always come true. The Weird Sisters are merely agents of fate and only foresee the future, they cannot alter it. They are only shown to use their powers for stirring up trouble, which they find great enjoyment in doing. Banking on the fact of Macbeth’s boundless ambition, the witches try to cause as much disruption as possible by making their prophecies very vague and open to interpretation, which is Macbeth’s number one problem. He doesn’t listen closely to the full prophecy and acts rashly, with little thought to how it might play out and with no regard for others, he jumps to wild conclusions and becomes too confident in his perceived idea of his future, and the witches give just enough information to intrigue a person who will, in turn sabotage their own …show more content…
He is incredibly ambitious and as soon as he learns what will happen he starts to plot about how to expedite that process. The Weird Sisters don’t tell Macbeth what to do in order to become king. This could be seen as a trick for Macbeth to see what will happen, but they already know that he will become king no matter what; it is his fate. Macbeth could become king without killing anyone, but his thoughts immediately jump to the murder of the current king. This places some doubt as to his sanity and strength of character as a whole. How can you trust a man who thinks murder is a valid option for getting what he desires? Obviously he is unstable, we can see his “vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other,” truly manifest itself here (1.7.27-28). We already know that he is highly capable of killing as he is an honored and battle-worn soldier, so the idea of him being able to exterminate someone as the means to an end is not surprising. The act of planning a homicide, however, is not just morally wrong but goes against the laws of nature to take another person’s life, leaving the audience to question where his morals lie. For a minute, Macbeth rethinks his plans, claiming “if chance will have me king, why, chance
“Their appetite for mischief is infinite, but what they can accomplish… is limited;” they don’t possess the capability to kill the sailor whose wife brought grief to one of their number, and so they cannot directly bring about any destruction to Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Duncan, or anyone else (Swisher 60). That being said, they are incredibly powerful seeing as they are able to bring back things from the past at Macbeth’s command, and their prophecies always come true. The Weird Sisters are merely agents of fate and only foresee the future, they cannot alter it. They are only shown to use their powers for stirring up trouble, which they find great enjoyment in doing. Banking on the fact of Macbeth’s boundless ambition, the witches try to cause as much disruption as possible by making their prophecies very vague and open to interpretation, which is Macbeth’s number one problem. He doesn’t listen closely to the full prophecy and acts rashly, with little thought to how it might play out and with no regard for others, he jumps to wild conclusions and becomes too confident in his perceived idea of his future, and the witches give just enough information to intrigue a person who will, in turn sabotage their own …show more content…
He is incredibly ambitious and as soon as he learns what will happen he starts to plot about how to expedite that process. The Weird Sisters don’t tell Macbeth what to do in order to become king. This could be seen as a trick for Macbeth to see what will happen, but they already know that he will become king no matter what; it is his fate. Macbeth could become king without killing anyone, but his thoughts immediately jump to the murder of the current king. This places some doubt as to his sanity and strength of character as a whole. How can you trust a man who thinks murder is a valid option for getting what he desires? Obviously he is unstable, we can see his “vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other,” truly manifest itself here (1.7.27-28). We already know that he is highly capable of killing as he is an honored and battle-worn soldier, so the idea of him being able to exterminate someone as the means to an end is not surprising. The act of planning a homicide, however, is not just morally wrong but goes against the laws of nature to take another person’s life, leaving the audience to question where his morals lie. For a minute, Macbeth rethinks his plans, claiming “if chance will have me king, why, chance