the witches

• duplicitous - deceitful


  they intentionally go to decieve macbeth with their malevolent (evil) supernatural prophecies as he has an ego. he is easy to coerce because he has this yearning to be and stay king and they draw upon those ambitions.they intentionally go to decieve macbeth with their malevolent (evil) supernatural prophecies as he has an ego. he is easy to coerce because he has this yearning to be and stay king and they draw upon those ambitions.
• "all hail, macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!"



  The commas employed around macbeth's name isolate his name, reflecting on how they are isolating macbeth and prohibiting him from seeing their true heinous (wicked) intentions. the exclamative sentence is used to emphasise the status of 'king' to appeal to macbeths hubris (excessive pride) and by emphasising that they know they can draw him in which allows them to be more duplicitious.
• How are the witches presented in "Macbeth"?

  As the archetype of the supernatural with malevolent and entrancing powers.
• "double double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble."

  
  

  The entrancing, hynotic repetition and rhyming couplets shows that the witches are presented as the archetype of the supernatural with their malevolent and entrancing powers. it reinforces how theyre casting these intentionally decietful and hypnotic spells to further decieve macbeth because of his hubris. fire creates an image of irreversible damage; this foreshadows the irreversible damage that will be caused to macbeth, aka his downfall.