Foolery And Trickery In Macbeth

Blasphemy! Foolery and trickery. The witches do not care for the people they hurt with their schemes. The witches are the ones who are to blame for the tragic fall of Macbeth! In the play Macbeth by Shakespeare, three mysterious witches tell Macbeth and Banquo their prophecies. At first, Macbeth settled on not doing anything about this and was going to simply let events come about on their own, but after being convinced by Lady Macbeth that they needed to do something to ensure their rise to the throne Macbeth began to spiral down a treacherous path. He is to blame for the death of King Duncan, and later the deaths of Banquo and Macduff's wife and son. All of this was due to the fact that the witches had told Macbeth and Banquo their prophecies

Would you do whatever it takes to make that future a reality? Everything that happened throughout the book stemmed from the witches' prophecies. If the witches had not told Macbeth and Banquo what glories their futures held, Macbeth would not have told Lady Macbeth, and then none of the murders would have taken place. In Act 1 scene 3 Macbeth says “Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more. By sinel’s death I know I am the Thane of Glamis. But how of Cawdor?’’ After the Witches tell Macbeth and Banquo their prophecies, Macbeth starts yearning for more information. The witches somehow already knew Macbeth would be in the field. They seem to have plotted this scheme in advance knowing Macbeth would react. In Act 1 Scene 3 Banquo says “ But ‘tis strange. And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s in deepest consequence” Here, Banquo starts to catch on to the fact that the witches may be trying to trick them into darkness by telling them this information, something Macbeth had yet to realize, which ended up in his

Hecate, the head witch, confronts the three witches for telling Macbeth about his fate and plots another scheme to trick him once more. When Macbeth and the witches cross paths, the witches show him three apparitions that each tell him something different. The first apparition tells him that he should beware of Macduff (“Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff. Beware the Thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough.”) The second apparition tells him that no man born from a woman would ever harm him ( “Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of women born Shall harm Macbeth.”) And the third apparition tells him that he will not be beaten until Great Birnam Wood goes to fight him at Dunsinane Hill. (“ Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are. Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill Shall come against him.”) The witches insinuate that Macbeth would stay in power and would not fall from the throne because he assumed it was only possible to be of women born, tricking him into believing that he was