Macbeth's Three Witches

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 tragedy Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, follows the rise and fall of a loyal Scottish warrior. Macbeth is portrayed as a man of multiple sides, presenting three main traits – bravery, ambition, and self-doubt – throughout the play. The character is an example of how ambition and guilt can have terrible effects on an individual lacking in strength of character. Although some people may perceive Macbeth as malicious, his weak character shows that he is incapable of conquering guilt and self-doubt. The prime themes of the play are: ambition, loyalty and betrayal, good and evil, appearance versus reality, supernatural and fate. Shakespeare presents these themes through the actions of Macbeth and their results: the corrupting effects

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a tragedy in which the main characters are obsessed by the desire for power. Macbeth’s aspiration for power blinds him to the ethical implications of his dreadful acts. The more that Shakespeare’s Macbeth represses his murderous feelings, the more he is haunted by them. By analyzing his hallucinations it is possible to trace his deteriorating mental state and the trajectory of his ultimate fall. Throughout the play Macbeth is never satisfied with himself. He feels the need to keep committing crime in order to keep what he wants most: his kingship. The harder Macbeth tries to change his fate the more he tends to run into his fate. His ambition and struggle for power was Macbeth’s tragic flaw in the play.

First off the play extinguishes predictions from witches that are only temptations. The weird sisters never tell Macbeth what to do with these suggestions. He is initially curious about these deceptive hags, but he takes their information that is given to him literally. The witches make predictions about the future kingship of Macbeth: "All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor." Macbeth, along with Lady Macbeth, was responsible for making the decisions that lead to the downfall and destruction of themselves. The prophecies predicted by the weird sisters do occur, but one can conclude that later events, such as the death of Macbeth, were not caused by their powers, but they were simply the witches' foreshadowing. If Macbeth has been contended on having just Thane of Cawdor and so on and so forth, his tragic death could've been interrupted or blocked from ever happening. Sadly Macbeth was overcome with so much greed that every prophecy the witches announced, Macbeth took it as a chance to have more power no matter what the stakes were.

The three witches in the tragedy Macbeth are introduced right at the beginning of the play. The scene opens with the witches chanting three prophesies: Macbeth will be Thane of Cawdor, Thane of Glamis and King. These prophesies introduce Macbeth to his plan of defeat and to over power. Macbeth will eventually follow through in killing king Duncan. Some people believe that the witches had the ability to reverse the order of things. This brings into the play idea of fate and the role with which it has in the play. One can only wonder if Macbeth ever had a chance of doing what was right after he met with the witches. It is however, more realistic to believe that Macbeth was responsible for his own actions throughout the play and in the end,

Macbeth's mental condition continues to deteriorate as his pursuit of power continues to drive him to commit more crimes. After his first killing Duncan to last killing Malcolm's family, the greed only caused him to commit more and more crimes. He would have never totally satisfied, he would always want more, but that is do to his greed that had corrupted his mind and heart.

A character’s tragic downfall is often influenced by other characters, but this is not the case in Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth. Macbeth conforms to the conditions of a tragic hero because in the beginning of the play, Macbeth is an honourable and trustworthy nobleman to King Duncan and all of Scotland. However, throughout the play, Macbeth commits evil deeds such betrayal, treason, and murder solely because of his ambitions to remain in power. Macbeth murders others upon hearing the witches’ prophecies and even proceeds to return to them to remain in power. Macbeth is influenced and manipulated by his wife Lady Macbeth and The Witches, but he is ultimately responsible for his own tragic downfall. Macbeth’s tragic downfall is caused by his ‘vaulting ambition’ to become king. Thus, Macbeth has no one but his ruthless, cruel, and greedy self to blame for his own tragic downfall.

Macbeth's excessive pride and ambition are now his dominant character traits. These features of his personality are well presented when he revisits the Witches of his own accord. His boldness and ideas of invincibility mark him out as lost to the toughs of ambition.

    Macbeth's internal combination of ambition and passivity create his susceptibility to the witch's prophecies and allow him to commit murderous deeds, but his unwillingness to take action-and to do evil-create his internal conflict that ultimately leads to his downfall. Although Lady Macbeth tries to goad Macbeth into action, it is Macbeth's character flaw that causes him to take action.  At first Macbeth is unwilling to murder Duncan, citing his loyalty to Duncan

Throughout Shakespeare’s play Macbeth the reader is introduced to many different characters, however no character has as big as an impact on the play then the three weird sisters. Even though theses characters only make a few brief appearances, there encounter with Macbeth at the start of the play gave reason to shape the entire plot and have an impact on each character involved. As the story develops it is clear that due to Macbeths lack of judgment, the influence of the three witch’s caused his emotions to take over and start to act out in fear and greed, in order to achieve his quest for power. Regardless to not physically interacting with anyone the three weird sisters were able to mentally interact with Macbeth getting inside his head

Minions of the Civil William Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, revolves around three “weird sisters” who were involved in witchcraft doings and were able to predict Macbeth, the main character’s future. Their involvement in the play was most likely due to the fact witchcraft was so popular during the time Macbeth was being written in 1606. Shakespeare’s inclusion of the three “weird sisters” was influenced by the execution of mostly women for witchcraft, witchcrafts popularity in early modern England, making money off patrons to produce Shakespeare’s plays and witch trials in North America.

In Act 1 Scene 3, the three witches meet MacBeth and Banquo. They address MacBeth as his official title; thane of Glamis as well as thane of Cawdor, a title not yet decided upon. “I know I am thane of Glamis; But how of Cawdor?” (16). The witches also discuss the future for Banquo and MacBeth and their roles in royalty.

The story Enter Three Witches is not a quality piece of literature because a remake of Shakespeare will never be as good as Shakespeare. For starters the story almost completely changes the story line of the real Macbeth,It’s hard to keep focus on the plot when the narrator keeps changing, and rewriting Shakespeare takes everything away from what Shakespeare really is. The original story Macbeth, and Enter Three Witches are completely different. By the author adding in these main characters to the story it makes it seem like the original story of Macbeth never really happened. Very few of the characters in Enter Three Witches are even mentioned in the original story.

Like every tragic hero, Macbeth suffered from a flaw. In his case, his flaw was his strong ambition, combined with a thirst for power. Ambition alone is not a bad trait, but when added with a lust for power, this ambition can become dangerous. At the beginning Macbeth was seen as brave Macbeth and shown as a loyal and brave solider on the battle field. That ambition always resided within him but did not cause a problem until the prophecy was made by the witches.