Macbeth Witch Control

The witches in Macbeth are supernatural sisters that enjoy breaking down and messing with people; the target that they have chosen in Macbeth is Macbeth. Throughout the play they confuse him into killing the king which also leads to Macbeth being killed, which is the witches goal because they enjoy torturing and watching these characters crash and burn. Constantly the witches are meeting Macbeth at crucial times giving him information that he always assumes true and wise after their first encounter; allowing the witches easy access into Macbeth's mind and actions. Although the witches seem to have not much of a purpose they were able to control the entire plot of the play through Macbeth. Being able to deceive such a powerful man the witches

Macbeth’s wife surrenders herself to the belief of her husband becoming King which corrupts her mindset. When Ross delivers the news of the death of the Thane of Cawdor to King Duncan he orders Ross to refer to Macbeth as his “former title” (I,ii,65), and tell him of his new title “Thane of Cawdor”(I,ii,63). As Ross travels to Macbeth to deliver the news the witches possibly hear of this new title and intercept Macbeth before Ross arrives. The first witch greets him saying “All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis”(I,iii, 46), the witches introduction tells Macbeth that these supernatural women know who he is, then the second witch refers to him as “Thane of Cawdor”(I,iii,47) provides him the information of his new title which he is about to receive from Ross, and the third witch calls him “King hereafter” (I,iii,48) which unknowingly will be his future title making him trust and believe that the witches can predict or see the future. The witches desire to gain his trust, so that later in the play he will become dependent on their devious information as a

The second apparition was of him being indestructible to anyone “women born”(IV, i, 79) allowing him to believe that he could do whatever he liked as King and he would die from natural causes. Before the witches tell Macbeth lies of unspeakable power and immortality to anyone they first warn him (the first apparition) “beware Macduff, beware the Thane of Fife”(IV, i, 70-71) who ends up being the one to kill Macbeth as revenge for King Duncan. Considerably the most truthful and helpful piece of knowledge that the witches actually tell Macbeth it could be argued that at this point they had a desire to help Macbeth in order to maintain their rule over the Macbeth and in turn the kingdom, but the witches need for destruction means that this warning was for the purpose of mentally torturing Macbeth by being able to see his death before it happened. The third apparition continues to promise “Macbeth shall never vanquished” (IV, i, 91) further cementing his trust and belief in the witches word, continuing the lies that the witches feed him, in order to gain his trust to spiral him to mental instability later on in the