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Who Are The Three Witcheses In Macbeth

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In the Shakespearean play The Tragedy of Macbeth, three witches’ prophesized that Macbeth would be king. When he heard this, he sent a letter to his wife telling her what the witches said. When Macbeth got home, he told his wife that King Duncan was coming to his castle Inverness for a feast. Lady Macbeth told him that it would be the perfect time to kill him and take over as king. So she goes and creates a plan to get rid of the king without suspicion falling on them. She tells Macbeth that she will drug the guards, and then he can go in and kill the king, then rub the blood on the guards so the blame goes on them. So they decide to do it early in the morning. Before Macbeth can kill the king he chickens out and says that he will not kill his king because he is a good man. …show more content…

She told Macbeth that if you go one step further by doing what you dared to do before, you’ll be that much more the man. “ (Macbeth Act 1.7, p.2) Before Macbeth goes to complete the plan he sees a bloody dagger in front of him. He saw the dagger before he even goes to kill the king. He had all kinds of hallucinations before and after killing the king. He says “The voice kept crying, “Sleep no more!” to everyone in the house. “Macbeth has murdered sleep, and therefore Macbeth will sleep no more.”(Macbeth Act 2.2, P.3). In this he is saying that he had murdered sleep therefore he can no longer

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