"All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Glamis!" "All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!" "All hail, Macbeth! That shalt be king hereafter." These are the first prophesies made by the Witches, when Macbeth and Banquo, coming back from the battlefield, encounter them in the heath during foul weather as they had predicted. This occurs in Act 1, Scene 3, carefully placed by Shakespeare to foreshadow the events to come. Macbeth was an honest man, but burning with a desire for more, by prophesizing his future to him they added fuel to the fire. The Witches tempted Macbeth with a sense of hope for the future. He was a courageous Scottish general who was not naturally inclined to commit evil deeds, yet he deeply desired power and advancement.

Once Macbeth commits his first crime and is crowned king of Scotland, he embarks on further atrocities with increasing ease. This is the witches plot at work, to raises his confidence above wisdom, grace, and fear. In Act 4, Scene 1, Macbeth returns to the heath to demand for further revelations. The Witches present Macbeth with three more prophecies, which make him believe he is immortal. "Beware Macduff!" " For none of woman born shall harm Macbeth." "Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come against him."(Act 4 scene 1) Believing that these prophecies will never come, Macbeth drops his guard. This is exactly what the Witches desire; they have taken pleasure in medalling in the lives of mortals for the amusement they receive out of it. Shakespeare alludes to the goddess of witchcraft, Hecate to these scenes advising the witches to drive Macbeth mad while keeping him hidden from his actual defeat. Macbeth is now overconfident because he feels as if he has defeated his fate, and assertively is fooled by the witches. Thunder encompasses the apparitions that the witches bring signifying murder to come and the ill scene now.

Before he kills Duncan, Macbeth is plagued by worry and almost aborts the crime. It takes Lady Macbeth's determined sense of purpose to push him into the deed. Lady Macbeth manipulates her husband with remarkable effectiveness, overriding all his objections. When he hesitates to murder, she repeatedly questions his manhood until he feels that he must commit murder to prove himself. In Act 1, Scene 7, Lady Macbeth argues:

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