In the startling Witchs? scene in Act 1, Scene 1 we learn that a battle is taking place:

In the following scene (Act 1, scene 2) we are told of the brave Macbeth?s exploits by a wounded solder:

?For brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name -

Disdaning fortune, with this brandish?d steel,

Like valour?s minion carved out his passage

These lines, as well as the imagery given shows us that Macbeth, a brave and honourable noble, has performed a great feat for his king, all is well. In act 1, Scene 3, the Which?s return and tell Macbeth and his companion and comrade 4 prophecies:

?First Witch: All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis!

Second Witch: All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!

Third Witch: All hail Macbeth!, that shalt be king hereafter.?

?Thou shalt get kings, though thou be non

"Where our desire is got without content:

Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill

"who can impress the forest, bid the tree

In scene 7, Macbeth?s ?goodness? reaches critical mass and goes through some major ethical changes. In lines 1 to 28, he has second thoughts, he wonders what Duncan has done to him to deserve his death, and decides that he doesn't want to go through with the killing of the King. He tells Lady Macbeth:

Faced with this startling bit of information , with the completion of the second prophesy, he writes to his wife at his home in Inverness (Act 1 Scene 5). Upon receiving and reading the letter, Lady Macbeth is determined to let the third prophesy come true. While the King in the previous scene had praised Macbeth?s sense of loyalty and honour, Lady Macbeth sees these qualities as obstacles to obtaining the crown:

- lines 77-78

Macbeth laughs at the first apparition's warning, thinking that he has nothing to fear from Macduff, and also plans to kill him, just to insure that the prophecy does not come true. The third apparition arises: a child crowned, with a tree in his hand. The third apparition then gives Macbeth the third prophesy:

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