How Did The Three Witches Influence Macbeth

Shakespeare, in many of his plays, portrays a tragic hero who gets easily influenced by outside ideas and thoughts. In his play, The Tragedy of Macbeth, three main characters influenced Macbeth’s, the protagonist, way of thinking. The Three Witches and Lady Macbeth continuously said how powerful Macbeth would become if he followed the witches prophecy. Macbeth, trying to satisfy the witches and Lady Macbeth, did anything he could to make the prophecy come true. Once again, Shakespeare, in one of his most known plays, The Tragedy of Macbeth, presents how Macbeth’s actions are influenced by the witches, Lady Macbeth, and even his own ambitions. The play starts out with The Three Witches chanting the prophecy of Macbeth, which intrigued him. However, the witches tend to be deceitful, harmful creatures that often twist words which get misinterpreted. One of the phrases that caught Macbeth’s attention was when the Witches chanted: “... Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! / .. that shalt be king hereafter!” The quote previously mentioned interests Macbeth because both Thane of Cawdor and the King were alive and well, for all he knew. Later, when he meets up with Duncan, the king, he finds out that the

After seeing the eight kings looking like Banquo, Lennox comes in and tells Macduff has gone to England. Furious that another person betrayed him, he sent off Murderers to kill Macduff’s family (driven by witches- seeing the eight kings scared him and did not want to face another threat [Macduff]). In the witches prophecies, they tell Macbeth and Banquo that Banquo’s sons will live to be kings. Feeling threatened, Macbeth hires murderers to kill Banquo and his son, Fleance in Act Ⅲ. Fortunately, Fleance is able to escape from the murderers, but not Banquo. Besides the witches, Lady Macbeth also influences Macbeth’s actions. She humiliates him to a point where she has no option but to kill