“Double, double, toil and trouble” are some of the most famous words from Shakespeare’s Macbeth and while they are not a part of the prophecies of the witches, they are an indication of what was to befall Macbeth. Lay Macbeth’s dominance, Macbeth’s own ambition, and the witches’ prophecies are the three popular causes of Macbeth’s downfall. While the first two causes were viable, it is obvious that there was some other force pushing and goading him to change from respectable and trustworthy to deceiving and murderous.
The three witches are introduced almost at the beginning of the play thus showing their importance in the course of events. While Macbeth is on his way home from fighting a battle for his country, he meets the witches for the first time and they reveal the three prophecies. The first of which is that he will become Thane of Glanis, which he was already. The second, Thane of Cawdor and the third was
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