... Two sinister sets of prophecies and six peculiar predictions that lead into a bloody battle of life and death. Just like the Three Musketeers, the Weird Sisters are always together and without each other they are unstable. They have skin like the bark of a broken down tree, and their lady-like ... features are rather faint. The demonic lady features of the Weird Sisters rather confuse Banquo and Macbeth because "You should be women/And yet your beards forbid me to interpret/ That you are so " ( I.iii ... willing to do anything to make their life captivating. Ancient belief of witches is...

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... to the witches, both parties pushed Macbeth closer to the place that he ended. "At this point, Lady Macbeth herself has virtually become an agent of Fate, just like the Weird Sisters." (Cliffnotes Shakespeare's Macbeth Page 24) Although the witches "reading" told Macbeth he would be king, the wife's first instinct was to kill to be crowned. "What thou wouldst highly ... , that wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win." (Act 1 Scene 5 Line 19-21) Although she only knows of the Three Weird Sisters, she just helped them with completing their "prophecy" for, "...

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... with ultimate end. As he returns from victorious battle, puffed up with self-love which demands ever-increasing recognition of his greatness, the demonic forces of evil-symbolized by the Weird Sisters-suggest to his inordinate imagination the splendid prospect of attaining now the greatest mutable good he has ever desired. These demons in the guise of witches cannot read his ... that he is but a wayward son, spiteful and wrathful, who, as other do, loves for his own ends. This is apparent throughout the drama; he never sins because, like the Weird Sisters, he loves evil for its own sake...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... vaguely relating Macbeth to King James and his beliefs pertaining to witchcraft. One specific part that pinpoints the belief of the devil being apart of the play is when the Weird Witches are the opening scene for the play: First witch: When shall we three meet again? In the thunder, lightning, or in rain? Second Witch: When the hurly-burly's done ... ...

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... helps plant the seed of Macbeth's, and her own, eventual downfall. Lady Macbeth receives a letter from Macbeth at the beginning of the play, telling her of his experiences with the "weird sisters". "They met me in the day of success: and I have learned by the perfect'st report, they have more in them than mortal knowledge." (Act1 scene 5) After she has ... ...

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... these supernatural occurrences help make the play more interesting and suspenseful. In the beginning scenes of the play, Macbeth has a confrontation with three witches whom Shakespeare referred to as the Weird Sisters. The witches represent Macbeth's evil ambitions. He encountered the witches who had beards, thus causing him to question whether they were actually women. He found the dirty and unkept ... ...

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... and Banquo. "Here's the smell of blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." Also, the imagery of blood is present with the witches, or "weird sisters" as they are referred to in the play. It is most evident in the scene where Macbeth visits the witches to seek their insight and his fortune for the ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School