... for power occurs in Act 1, Scene 3 when the witches relay their prophecies to both him and Banquo, naming him "Thane of Glamis," "Thane of Cawdor" and "King Hereafter." Shakespeare portrays Macbeth to display initial disbelief in the news, indicated by his rhetorical question, "But how of Cawdor? " thus implying that he views their prophecies a folly, and is not yet allured towards ... masculinity, suggesting that, "When you durst do it, then you were a man. " Lady Macbeth therefore represents an additional destructive force to the witches that aids in the creation of Macbeth's obsessi...

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