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Theme Of Supernatural Creatures In Macbeth

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Shakespeare 's play Macbeth uses supernatural creatures in several ways, it starts off with a trio of witches and then moves to a military camp where we first meet Macbeth and learn that he is one of the two generals in this army and that they have two separate invading armies, one from Ireland and one from Norway; after General Macbeth and his army get done battling both of the invading armies they come across the trio of witches as they cross a moor. The three witches foresee Macbeth becoming a thane of Cawdor and eventually King of Scotland. The witches also share that Macbeth 's companion Banquo will beget a line of Kings but will never be King himself. The witches go away and and some of the kings Dutchmen come up to Macbeth and Banquo …show more content…

She wants him to be King so bad she encourages him to murder Duncan in order to get Kingship. Macbeth finally agrees with his wife, and they planned on getting the Duncans two chamberlains drunk so when they wake up in the morning they won’t remember anything and this way Macbeth and his wife could blame the murder on them, and they would be defenceless; Macbeth ends up stabbing Duncan in his sleep, even though he has had some change of heart and has seen a number of supernatural entities, things such as visions of bloody daggers; after the Duncan 's body is found, Macbeth then kills the chamberlains because of their “crime” and the Duncan’s sons flee away in fear of whoever killed their father would then come after them, and Macbeth takes …show more content…

The night after Banquo is killed, his ghost visits Macbeth, Macbeth becomes vary fearful and frightened. He seeks out the witches in their cavern where they show Macbeth what he’s become and what will happen to him. They show him the Duncan 's sons and where they went, and how one of his sons and his wife Lady Macduff is expecting kids. So Macbeth orders them all to be killed; the witches have essentially turned Macbeth into a monster. Prince Malcolm, the Duncans surviving son took off to England where he successfully raised an army. Macduff joins him and they and the army go to Scotland to challenge Macbeth 's forces. All while this is happening Lady Macbeth starts sleepwalking and while she sleep walks she says things such as she believes she has blood on her hands. As soon as the army from England arrives in Scotland, Macbeth receives news that his wife killed herself, almost as though the witches had showed her a prophecy of her own and she couldn 't handle seeing the feature and what she would do and become so instead of going on with life and potentially killing someone and having blood on her hands, she killed herself. Macbeth is sick with grief over the loss of his wife but he continues to ready his army to defend his place as King in Scotland. But nevertheless Macbeth takes on the opposing forces all while believing, yet still vary fearful, that the trio of witches prophecies had granted him invincibility. However Macbeth’s army ends up losing to the army from

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