Macbeth: The Witches Prophecies

William Shakespeare’s tragedy MacBeth is an unfortunate one. Although MacBeth does take the actions that lead to his downfall, he is not fully responsible for his behavior. After coming in contact with three witches who foretell the future for him, he wants to believe them since everything they told him is good on his part. It is said that the witches were just figments of his imagination. In either case, the prophecies told act as a vehicle to plant ambition in him which lead him to be greedy with his new found happiness, lie to all those he trusts, and eventually to multiple murders.

Although the first and second prophecies that the witches foretell come true, they only turn MacBeth greedy. After MacBeth becomes Thane of Cawdor, MacBeth is amazed with the predictions made so far. “Look how our partner’s rapt.” From having the first divination come true, MacBeth imagines the possibility of the other predictions to come true, but he is skeptical at first:

MACBETH: (Aside) This supernatural soliciting

Cannot be ill, cannot be good; if ill,

Why hath it given me earnest of success,

Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor:

If good, why do I yield to the that suggest

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Approximate Word count = 875
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)