ys: making sure you dealt with a topic which you known your king was interested in, guaranteed this. He actually went further than this and included the King in the play.The witches’ influence or the potential of their influence upon Macbeth is also part of their role. Although, at times, we see limitations of their power- they can not do, for instance, sink the boat the Captain of Tiger is sailing in, but they can toss it about a lot in a storm, (as they have power to central weather). There are lots of other times when we see their power, e.g. they are able to disappear in to thin air; they look into Macbeth’s future and greet him before his time with ‘Thane of Cawdor’When Macbeth allows himself to be influenced by them, when evil has its foothold in the door, then everything becomes topsy-turvy and things fall into chaos- the heavens are unhappy animals attack one another, and nobody knows who to trust. “There’s dagger in men’s smiles: the near blood, The nearer bloody.”From the moment the play begins we are introduced to 3 witches. Any Jacobean would have had a terrible fright when they would see such evil creatures, which in that time were thought to be true. The witches made an even bigger impression to us when they name Macbeth. This would of out us on the edge of our seats, as the forces of evil and darkness have a relationship with the person the play is written about.The first scene is merely to announce the time of their next meeting, to create a sinister atmosphere. This would have pleased King James. The line:“Fair is foul, and foul is fair”Is a very important line the witches use, as Macbeth himself ends up using it? The witches are probably trying to say that good things come from bad and evil things.“Hover through the fog and filthy air”The things that a person, i.e. Macbeth might think is true, it is possible that i...
