Three Apparitions In Macbeth

In Macbeth written by Shakespeare, Macbeth is a very prideful and confused person that did anything to get the title of being king, in the beginning of the book he is given three apparitions and in two of those apparitions are symbols that help support a theme. Shakespeare uses the armed head and the bloody child to convey that pride in people can keep them from seeing what's right in front of them.
Shakespeare uses the symbol of an armed head or a head with helmet, to support the theme that pride in people can get in the way of how they think or act. When Macbeth is given the apparitions he has to look into something and things appear that connect to the apparitions, in the first apparition he looks and sees the armed head. “Thunder. First …show more content…
After the first apparition Macbeth didn't feel that he should be worried about something that's going to come in the near future so he had a calm state of mind. While he was looking into where the apparitions appear he saw a bloody child, “ Thunder. Second apparition: a bloody child.”(4.1.75) seeing that causes macbeth confusion but not to feel threatened. When the witches told him the second apparition they said “ Be bloody, bold, and resolute! Laugh to scorn the pow’r of man, for none of women born shall harm Macbeth.”(4.1.80) Hearing this made Macbeth even more prideful and to feel that he is invincible and that no one can stop him from getting the title of king. But all the pride that he had blinded him from the fact that this apparition was a warning to him that their is someone out there that can stop him and it isn't hard to find. The apparition is explaining that no man that is born from women can hurt him but a man that is born from a C-section can harm Macbeth, but macbeth's pride keeps him from seeing this because he heard it and took it as a good thing and it helped boost his confidence when it was the