The Influences of the witches on Macbeth and Banquo
Write about the different influences of the witches on Macbeth and Banquo.
In the play 'Macbeth' by William Shakespeare, the witches play an important role and influence the characters, the plot, the theme and the audience. They help construct the play and without them it would have been a totally different story line. The three weird sisters affect Macbeth’s acts and characters’ lives and orientate the plot. They are related to most of the themes and appeal the audience's attention.
The witches have a strong effect on Macbeth's character; they highly influence him in his accomplishments and awake his ambitions. Looking at Act 1, Scene 3, the three witches make two new prophecies about Macbeth. “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!”
Macbeth’s first response to the witches’ predictions is interest, he wants them to tell him more, “stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more!” Soon after the witches give these predictions, Ross and Angus arrive and tell Macbeth that he is the Thane of Cawdor. Macbeth has a neutral response saying, “This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill/ cannot be bad, if ill why hath it given me earnest of success?” Macbeth then brings into consideration that, even though his meeting with the witches incites terror in him, he believes it would do no harm in talking to them because their first prediction had already come true. Macbeth becomes wildly curious and increasingly attracted to what the witches had to say. He yearns to know more and becomes so determined to make the promise to become king work out that it sparks evil in his mind. He then begins to think of murder, “my thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical.”
The impacts of the witches on Macbeth are extremely strong because they are the ones who plant the actual idea of killing Duncan into Macbeth's mind. But if it were only the witches prophecies, then Macbeth surely
In the play 'Macbeth' by William Shakespeare, the witches play an important role and influence the characters, the plot, the theme and the audience. They help construct the play and without them it would have been a totally different story line. The three weird sisters affect Macbeth’s acts and characters’ lives and orientate the plot. They are related to most of the themes and appeal the audience's attention.
The witches have a strong effect on Macbeth's character; they highly influence him in his accomplishments and awake his ambitions. Looking at Act 1, Scene 3, the three witches make two new prophecies about Macbeth. “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!”
Macbeth’s first response to the witches’ predictions is interest, he wants them to tell him more, “stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more!” Soon after the witches give these predictions, Ross and Angus arrive and tell Macbeth that he is the Thane of Cawdor. Macbeth has a neutral response saying, “This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill/ cannot be bad, if ill why hath it given me earnest of success?” Macbeth then brings into consideration that, even though his meeting with the witches incites terror in him, he believes it would do no harm in talking to them because their first prediction had already come true. Macbeth becomes wildly curious and increasingly attracted to what the witches had to say. He yearns to know more and becomes so determined to make the promise to become king work out that it sparks evil in his mind. He then begins to think of murder, “my thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical.”
The impacts of the witches on Macbeth are extremely strong because they are the ones who plant the actual idea of killing Duncan into Macbeth's mind. But if it were only the witches prophecies, then Macbeth surely