Macbeth Witches Control

There can be little doubt that the witches are exploiting the situation for their own evil ends and are using "honest trifles" to win Macbeth to harm, but given the limited nature of their powers, it is hard to say that they are responsible for Macbeth's later actions.

Whenever there is a mass murder and dozens of innocent people die the world wants to know why the murderer would do such a thing. Sometimes, the murderer is acting under the influence of someone else. This is the case in William Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Macbeth, where the titular character commits multiple crimes after hearing three witches predict his future. In The Tragedy of Macbeth, the witches are the catalyst to all of Macbeth’s crimes. This can be seen when they convince Macbeth that he will become king, they motivate him to kill Banquo and they inform him that he is virtually unkillable and should fear MacDuff.

The witches are partly to blame for Macbeth's downfall by equivocation and misleading information. Near the beginning of the play, the witches say that Macbeth "shalt be king hereafter", foretelling what happens in the play. In this scene,

If Macbeth didn’t know about this prophecy he would have happily took his position as Thane of Cawdor, but knowing he will be King drove him to commit murder. Macbeth was rapidly changed from an honorable general to an evil tyrant. “The witches did not tell him to commit murder; all that was necessary was for them to suggest the fact of the crown, and they could trust Macbeth to overcome the obstacles in his way just as they would have him” (Wiley, 45). This emphasizes the fact that the play is shaped by the supernatural. This lead to the murder of Duncan, then to get rid of his obstacles he kills the guards. The Witches also reveal “Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none” (1.3.67) to Banquo. This knowledge leads Macbeth to send Murderers to kill Banquo and his son. This is more evidence to show that the words of the witches construct the plays events.

After everyone has found out that the king is dead Banquo suspects Macbeth of doing something to make the witches predictions that they ways saying to become true. At that time Macbeth is king so he turns on his best friend Banquo and has him and all of his family including Fleance killed because he was the only person there when the predictions of Macbeth becoming king and also the witches said that Banquos son Fleance would become king too. So this shows that that Macbeth is getting over protective of his crown to the throne so he will do anything to stop people becoming king. So he will kill he’s best friend and his family only because the three withes said that predictions of Macbeth becoming king. So Macbeth is going into a downward spiral towards great darkness and becoming ever more evil from every action he makes and does to protect the crown.

Although Duncan is out of the way now, Macbeth finds out that Banquo’s sons are the next in line to become King. With this realization, he says, “To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings!/Rather than so, come fate into the list,/And champion me to th' utterance.” (3.1.75-77). Now that Lady Macbeth has convinced Macbeth that he is destined to be King, his statement shows how he is going to do everything in his power to make it happen. He feels that he has to prove to himself and to others that he is not womanly, and is capable of performing ‘manly’ tasks. In order to prove this to himself, he says, “There’s comfort yet; they are assailable./Then be thou jocund.” (3.2.44-45). Here Macbeth is saying that he finds comfort in knowing that he can simply kill Banquo’s sons so he can become king. This further represents his transition to becoming in full control over the events that take place in the play. This is because he is planning to commit a tragedy, in this case, a murder, in order to fulfill his desires. Lady Macbeth persuaded him in the beginning, but now it is completely his own doing. By saying he feels comfortable with murder, which contradicts his belief from the beginning, it may be noticed how this is a clue that he will hold responsibility for more tragedies in the near

In the tragic play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, a brave war hero receives a prophecy from three witches which leads, power hungry Macbeth as well as his wife Lady Macbeth to destruction. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth commit unspeakable acts due to being driven by fear which suggests, people can be manipulated by their fear resulting in personal corruption. Throughout the play the Witches play a huge role in creating fear within Macbeth, which drives him further and further into a hole of destruction. In the beginning of the play the three witches’ share Macbeth’s prophecy with him which is that he will become the king of Scotland.

Macbeth's actions, thereby, should be traced back to the witches. The witches also did not try to stop Macbeth from imprudently assassinating the king even though they know his future actions. Adjacent to bullying, the witches are bystanders who are as much at fault as the bully, but in this case, even more at fault as they also spread the disease to Macbeth. Macbeth then contaminates his wife with evil increasing the level of wickedness the witches pass on to

In the beginning of the play, the witches make three prophecies. First, that Macbeth will become the Thane of Cawdor. The second part of the prophecy is that Macbeth will become King. The third prophecy being that Banquo will be father to future kings. When Macbeth first hears the prophecy, Duncan holds the position as king. King duncan is also a very loved king by his people. Macbeth and Duncan even have a good relationship. Macbeth is Duncan’s greatest war hero and because of Macbeth’s great success in battle, Duncan rewards him by promoting him to the position of Thane of Cawdor. With this promotion, Macbeth realizes that the witches first prophecy was true. With this realization, Macbeth’s head begins to fill with thoughts of killing King Duncan to speed up the process so that he can become king. When he tells his wife of the prophecies and his promotion, she becomes extremely

In the first five acts of William Shakespeare's play Macbeth the audience witnesses the brutal murders of a majority of the characters. The characters in the play who are guilty of causing a majority of these murders are the three witches. It is the witches who first give Macbeth the idea to kill Duncan and Banquo. The audience also discovers that the witches are not supposed to give out these half prophecies that cause the murders. Finally, it is the witches who are entirely responsible for pushing Macbeth to the point of killing all of Macduff’s family.

In Macbeth, the witches seem to be confusing figures. They are portrayed as dark, eccentric, and strangely amusing creatures. It doesn’t show that they have that much importance early on, but after finishing the play and comprehending, we see that the witches have done a lot. We can deduce that the “weird sisters” specifically implant ideas in Macbeth’s head, which later influence him by giving him all types of information that eventually affect his way of handling guilt, and other emotions that put him on the edge of sanity. The witches know that Macbeth will be bad, it is not enounced why, but

The initial prophecy also instigated Macbeth’s envy towards Banquo, when the witches revealed that Banquo “shalt get kings” (1.3.67). This led to Macbeth experiencing a great deal of wrath towards Banquo because, even though killing Duncan would make Macbeth king, it would be “for them [Banquo’s sons] the gracious Duncan have I [Macbeth] murder’d” (3.1.66). With his lust for power engulfing his thoughts, Macbeth sees Banquo as a threat because the witches “hail’d him [Banquo] father to a line of kings” (3.1.60) and “plac’d a fruitless crown” (3.1.61) on Macbeth’s head, along with giving him a “barren sceptre” (3.1.62). This resentment leads directly to his second great crime, the murder of Banquo and the attempted murder of Fleance, Banquo’s

In Macbeth the witches try to control Macbeth's fate by saying "Thou shalt be kings" which later on he does but dies. In the poem "If" you control how much hard work you put in."Fortune's expensive smile is earned". Lady Macbeth Is able to control Macbeth when he says "We can't go on with this" by telling him to do it because he said he would.

Right after hearing the prophecy, he tells Banquo, “Your children shall be kings,” to which Banquo responds, “You shall be king” (1.3). While Banquo is not jealous that he will never be king, Macbeth, aware of Banquo’s fortune, begins to resent him, eventually formulating a plan to kill him and Fleance. While the two characters share the same ambitions, Banquo is much more cautious after hearing the prophecy while Macbeth becomes much more reckless and impulsive, acting on jealousy and anger, and eventually leading to his

Throughout the story, Macbeth becomes more obsessed with his prophecies that he had received from the witches. The prophecies made him believe that if Banquo wasn’t killed then it would be a line of Kings beside him (I:ii 66-67). This triggered him to have a thought in his mind that he probably wouldn’t have been King forever. MacBeth was unable to trust anyone because if he had killed Duncan with no remorse then people would start to look at him crazy.