Witches & Destiny

The witches are the most important characters in the play, even though there are horrible, and they greatly affected Macbeth. Macbeth was a good man who had a lot of good thing in his life. When they told him he will become a king, a terrible ideas come to his mind, then he end up thinking about murdering the king just so he could make their prophesy come true, and he can become a king. 

They said:

First witch. All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee thane, Thane of Glamis!

Second witch. All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!

Third witch. All hail, Macbeth! that shalt be king hereafter (1.3-48-49)

At first Macbeth didn’t believe them, and he told them that the words that they said doesn’t make sense, and he asked them to explain themselves. “He said. By sinel’s death I know I am Thane of Glamis; But how of Cawdor? The Thane of Cawdor lives, a prosperous gentleman; and to be king,   Stand not within the prospect of belief, No more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence, you owe this strange intelligence? Or why, upon this blasted heath you stop our way, with such prophetic greeting  Speals I charge you, Witches vanish.” (act.1-71-77). Later when Ross told him that he was going to be the thane of Cawdor, he changed his mind and started to think about what they said, and he said, “This supernatural soliciting cannot be good. If ill, why hath it given me earnest of success, commencing in a truth? I am Cawdor.”(act.1.2-130-132) and his friend Banquo didn’t believe on them at all, he said’ “What! Can the devil speak true?”(Act.1.2-106)

The witches have a very strong role in this play. Even though don’t know anything about the future, they didn’t control others destiny.  They add temptation, and influence to Macbeth. He create his own misery when is driven by his own sense of guilt. This causes him to commit more murder. The witches gave him the idea, but in the end it is each individual’s decision to either fall for the temptation, or to be strong enough to resist it.

Every individual influences their own future. We can plan our lives and our days, and how hard we work, or how lazy we are will affect the rest of our lives in the long run.