Macbeth - Discuss the influence of the witches’prophecies on

These are merely greetings, and because Macbeth does not know that he is either the Thane of Cawdor or the king, Macbeth, Banquo, and the audience take the greetings as prophecies. But a prophecy is not an invitation to murder. Nor is it even a suggestion that one is aggressively to seek out the office predicted for one. But that is exactly how Macbeth takes the prophecies. He calls them "supernatural soliciting," an invitation to se ' ek the kingship. However, Macbeth has had murder on his mind as a method of gaining the kingship, and in effect he therefore takes the predictions as a beckoning by supernatural powers to murder Duncan for the king

Now, although the witches did not cause Macbeth to murder Duncan, they did provide temptation. We cannot tell whether or not Macbeth would have murdered Duncan without the seeming guarantee of success that the witches offered. But that they made it easier for Macbeth to succumb to his wife; that they made Lady Macbeth more determined to whip her husband into committing the crime, we can have little doubt. The devil was out to get Macbeth because he knew that Macbeth was open to temptation, but the devil had to be careful in giving temptation its most pleasing form: in essence, flattery. That is the "charm" the witches wind up, not the charm which forces Macbeth into murder

We may conclude, therefore, that the witches are part of this deceptive, treacherous world, which can offer great temptation, but which cannot make us fall for the temptation if we

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