Foreshadowing Examples In Macbeth

Shakespeare uses the prediction of the witches and thought of Macbeth himself to foreshadow among the play. He sees them somewhat as audience. In foreshadowing Macbeth, William Shakespeare included supernatural things in many of his tragedies, but Macbeth stands out among the other tragedies for its dark tone. In the very first scene of Act I, Shakespeare introduces his audience to the Weird Sisters.

In Macbeth, Shakespeare makes use of the three witches as main sources foreshadowing. In the play the witches are conveyed as "prophecies". The audience sees little of the prophecies so quick in the beginning of the scene and act of the play. When it talks about them meeting Macbeth they said they will greet him, when they show lost and won, after they will yell together."fair is foul and foul is fair!"(Shakespeare 1) Both of these examples foreshadow that some sore of evil will be coming and

They greet him with three titles," Thane of Glamis," "Thane of cawdor," and "King Hereafter."(Shakespeare5-6) The last two titles are used as foreshadowing for matters to come back, Macbeth himself sees them, but as predictions that would come true. The title of Thane of cawdor foreshadows a title that is soon to be announced to hi in scene four cause the execution of cawdor. The title King Hereafter foreshadows a title that will cost him more than he knows. It is going to be through maddening guilt and evil that will gain him that name. Those foreshadowing examples show how the Character themselves can be proven the foreshadowing, but not as facts, they see them as predictions or prophecies that might become true. Later in that scene Macbeth foreshadows his own fate. He says,"present fears are less than horrible imaginings." (Shakespeare pg8) This foreshadows his own self in murdering the king and facing something more worse than any war he has ever