“All hail, Macbeth, the future king!” (I.iii.51). In act I, Macbeth is told by witches that he would become king. There is no way to tell if he would have tried to become king or not if he didn’t meet the witches, but he still believed what they said. Macbeth not only believed what they said, but he asked Banquo several times about what the witches said. Macbeth is so gullible that believed that he would become king just by what a few witches said. He also believed he could never be defeated because they predicted he would only be brought down by someone who was not born of woman.
In the beginning of the play, Macbeth and Banquo enter after the witches dance in a circle and say a chant. When Banquo sees the witches he says that they look strange
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As soon as Macbeth asks them who they are, they immediately tell him that he will be thane of Cawdor and Glamis, and they say he will eventually become king. They never tell him their name or who they actually are. Banquo even says that Macbeth looks afraid of what they were predicting. Macbeth even continues to further his questioning on how he would become all these things. If he had ambitions to kill the king, he wouldn't have to ask the witches how all of this would happen. When he asks them how he will become king, they disappeared, so he should have realized that what they were saying was just a trick. Banquo even question if the witches were really there, but Macbeth still repeats what the witches said. This shows that even after seeing the witches and hearing Banquo say that they are strange, he still thinks that what they predicted was true. When Macbeth finds out he is thane of Cawdor, he asked Banquo if he believes the things that the witches told him would become true, and he replied, “The agents of evil often tell us part of the truth in order to lead us to our destruction.” (I.iii.124-125). Banquo is saying that the forces of evil tell us things we want to