In my opinion the “three weird sisters” play a significant role and have complete control over the whole play. The premise of the play Macbeth is his lust for power and all the events that occur in the process to become and maintain being king. Without the weird sisters prophesies to Macbeth does he even embark on his murderous rampage? We learn quickly that Macbeth is a brave and noble warrior, so it doesn’t seem likely that after King Duncan named him Thane of Cawdor he would plot the murder of him after. Though shortly before his promotion the weird sisters do prophecies to him that he will become Thane and later King. So Macbeths belief in the sisters has already begun and this where the rest of the play begins to go in motion. Macbeth invites King Duncan to his castle with no real intent to murder, though one character had other plans. Macbeth’s wife, Lady Macbeth, desperately wanted to become queen and knew exactly how to do it. At first Macbeth was firm on his stance of not wanting to kill Duncan, though after several comments on his manhood Lady Macbeth, the spur to prick the sides of my intent, had convinced her husband. “More evidence of the witches control over the play is a hesitant Macbeth on his way to kill Duncan and an image of a floating dagger …show more content…
The witches showed him three apparitions. The first apparition is of an armored head, which tells Macbeth to fear Macduff. The second apparition, a bloody baby, tells Macbeth no man born of woman would hurt him. The last apparition appears as a crowned child with a tree in its hand which tells him that he would not be defeated until Birnam Wood meets at Dunsinane Hill. Macbeth, believing that what the witches showed him would be true, now becomes over confident and cocky that he would remain as king. Given that all men are born of women and that Birnam Wood, a forest, is not able to move to Dunsinane Hill, Macbeth feels practically
As Macbeth asked for more information from the witches, in their second encounter, he is flustered with riddled sentences that comfort him and give him a false sense of security. The apparitions that the witches summon each give Macbeth a piece of information that changes the way he thinks about his throne. One of the apparitions tells Macbeth that “none of woman born shall harm [him]” (4.1.102). The other apparition tells him that “[He] shall never be vanquished until Great Birnam Wood to Dunsinane Hill shall come against him” (4.1.115). With these prophecies Macbeth begins to think that none will be able to harm him and that he is for the most part invincible.
After this prediction comes true, Macbeth starts to contemplate the murder of king Duncan. His own thoughts alarm him. Macbeth is shocked at his reaction to this event. Along with the three sisters, Lady Macbeth has a large hand in Macbeth's mental decline.
Macbeth had had no reasonable thought once the Sisters intervened in Macbeth’s life. The Sisters were the main control by convincing Macbeth of the things he wanted to hear to be truth. The Sister is exactly what every hero gone bad story needs. Sisters gave false hope and destroy Macbeth’s life.
It all starts off with her wanting to take order of what her husband needs to achieve. She claims to want to take her weakness away while being a woman as she speaks on the murder of Duncan. “Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty!” Lady Macbeth is bold and fierce in what she takes authority over. Macbeth follows along Lady Macbeths plan when declaring the murder of Duncan.
In the beginning of the plays, three witches gather together to discuss when they should meet again. The second witch says, “When the battle is lost and won.” that will be when they will be again with Macbeth. What the second witch said can represent Macbeth. It foreshadows Macbeth will win in battle and lose some.
Macbeth’s already harmful mindset collides with the witches. “(S)he is propelled in this direction by environmental circumstances” (McLeod). In this case, Macbeth is not in the correct state of mind to realize the witches are just another voice and the decision is ultimately
All through the play of Macbeth, there are many circumstances that the witches show how they messed up Macbeth's better half. “Surely
Lady Macbeth plans to invite king Duncan over for dinner, but really she is convincing Macbeth to murder him. She influences him to kill Duncan because he is the only one standing in the way of Macbeth becoming king. Lady Macbeth plans the killing but convinces Macbeth to do the dirty deed. Lastly, Lady Macbeth is one of the causes of Macbeth’s failure because she repeatedly questions Macbeth’s manhood until she persuades him to make a bad choice. “When you durst do it then you were a man” (1.7.53-58).
(Shakespeare. IV. I. 92-94). Macbeth assumes that Birnam wood will never come upon his castle, it is a forest after all, which ultimately leads to his final, tragic demise. These prophecies play with Macbeth’s sanity and show that women are often underestimated, yet powerful.
Moreover, this realization leads Lady Macbeth to think about murdering King Duncan for her and Macbeth to gain power. In addition to Lady Macbeth’s cruel character, she reveals her desirous thoughts towards the crown. Lady Macbeth continues her speech and mentions her unquenching thirst to take Duncan’s power. “Make thick my blood. Stop the access and passage to remorse, that no compunctious visitings of nature shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace with the effect and it!”
“I laid the daggers ready; he could not miss em. Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t.” (II, ii, 11-13) Lady Macbeth is only strong enough to
Macbeth cannot imagine how a man could not be born of a woman and feels invincible. This also references MacDuff who was born by caesarian section instead of a natural birth. The final apparition is a child with a crown, which once again gives Macbeth a false sense of security as it states he will not fall until a battle of Birnam Woods. The apparition
Macbeth’s pride allowed his wife to use his ambition as leverage calling him a ‘coward’, ‘lesser than a man’. Macbeth was unable to withstand the belittlement and his masculinity mocked. Previously, Macbeths desire to obtain the
Without Macbeth realizing the minor fault in these prophecies, he starts to gradually become more ambitious and more determined to kill Duncan in order to become king quickly as possible. The witches advance the plot again later in the play when Macbeth demands answer of his fate. They show Macbeth three more prophecies spoken by apparition; a head wearing a battle helmet, a blood-covered child, and a child wearing a crown and carrying a tree. The witches show Macbeth the three apparitions who tell him, Beware Macduff; /
Macbeth on Trial — guilty or innocence Macbeth murdered his highest, King of Scotland—Duncan in purpose. He utilized the drunk of Duncan killed him in sleep and frame the murder on his drunk soldier with Lady Macbeth. Following statements are evidences for his guilty. Macbeth has his own motivation to act homicide. As the mysterious prediction from three witches stimulate his ambition to the throne, one direct and connivence method is to kill the King Duncan.