... enters and demands to know what has happened. A sergeant responds, "For brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name-/ Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel,/... Like valor's minion carved out his passage." (1.2.16-19) At this point in the play Macbeth is the Thane of Glamis, which makes Macbeth the third most powerful man in Scotland behind the Thane of Cawdor and ... . As a result Duncan sends Ross to inform Macbeth of his promotion. Macbeth and his good friend Banquo are traveling when they come across three es. The es offer Macbeth two key predictions. The first is that Macbeth w...

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