Act 1, scene 1 and 2

• The witches open the play
• the atmosphere is:

  • Supernatural
  • atmospheric
  • chaos
  • eerie
  • Duncan make Macbeth thane of Cawdor
  • Macbeth receive the witches prophecies in act 1 scene 3
• ‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’
• Macbeth is described by the captain before he meet him on stage: ‘brave Macbeth’; ‘valour’s minion’