f Cawdor. The Witches’ predictions have already excited Macbeth, but when he becomes Thane of Cawdor, he believes he has proof that they can read the future and so starts to believe them. He immediately takes one more step closer to kingship, he even says “Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor. The greatest is behind” Witches and other superstitions were widely believed in Shakespeare’s time, so it is easy to see why Macbeth was fooled into believing them. Macbeth tells us that he believes quite deeply in the supernatural and fate when he says, “If chance may have me king, why, chance may crown me.” But maybe he took what they were saying too seriously. Even though Banquo was involved in the predictions, Banquo was able to take it light-heartedly. Duncan was in fine health and a good king, so to him or anyone else the predictions were quite outrageous. But the Witches speak Macbeth’s thoughts and get him under a spell, from this point in the play, their words are always in his thoughts. We actually only see them once more, but they are always present in his mind. The Witches only predict the future, but they could know that this is enough to affect Macbeth’s future in the fragile state that he is in. So they are responsible for his murderous thoughts, and they predict something that moments later come true. They torment him by making him believe that a greater prize is near. They know that anything could push him to murder. They are evil people and enjoy the fact that Macbeth will be an easy target to perform their evil deeds. They never actually say, that he will become king by killing Duncan, or that he should hurry the prediction along. Greed and the desire of power and fame take over all aspects of Macbeth’s reality and sanity. He comes to the decision that he should kill Duncan, with some help from his wife. Could it be that the Witches foresaw the terrible fate of Macbeth?In Act 1,Scene...
