Three Prophecies In Macbeth

In William Shakespeare’s Greek tragedy, Macbeth, it starts with three witches giving a brave Scottish general three prophecies. Those prophecies will come true, and it will determine the fate of Macbeth. The first two prophecies were that Macbeth will be Thane of Glamis and Thane of Cawdor, and the last prophecy was that Macbeth will become the future king. However, the last prophecy soon leads Macbeth in committing sins due to his ambition for power. Considering that he definitely wants to become the future king, he tries to come up with ways to make it come true, but not taking action yet. His thoughts and the influences he gets from Lady Macbeth makes him kill Duncan. After the murder of Duncan, he regrets what he has done, and his guilt

The motif of blood in the second apparition with the bloody child is a major external force that leads to Macbeth’s tragic downfall: “Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth” (4.1.90-92). Basically, this apparition tells Macbeth to be violent, bold, and strong-willed. It also tells him to laugh at the power of other men since no one who is born from a woman will harm him. Here, blood means to be cruel and cold-blood, which foreshadows the bad mood that will go on over the next few scenes of Act IV by having Macbeth act cruel. It reassures Macbeth’s confidence with false sense of security, even if the first apparition scares Macbeth by telling him to beware Macduff and by making him want to kill Macduff. On the other hand, the second apparition tells him not to worry because men who were born from a woman will not harm him, so he becomes overconfident. However, he does not realize that Macduff was not born naturally from a woman and thus, this gives Macbeth a false concept and a false sense of security. The presence of blood in the second apparition takes part of Macbeth’s downward spiral into insanity and his chaotic