Three witches

• "Fair is foul and foul is fair"


  The incantation of reversal in the entirety of the great chain of being.

  The reference repeated in macbeths words, the unnatural is welcomed in the first few minutes of the play, something so uncanny and inhumane is foreshadowed, blasphemy of witchcraft on audience. Inversion of values. Foreshadowing of gates of hell.
• "All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!"


  The witches use their witts to bend macbeths hamartia of vaulting ambition into their on mind game. They begin to enjoy macbeths flirtation of usurption, and by winning him with the "honest trifle" in the title thane of cawdor. This proclaimation sets macbeth into action as he presides over a terror reign further on, perhaps exactly to their plans as they fool him over and over again. His attempt to control fate is exactly what sets him on the decline of sanity.
• "though shalt get kings though thou be none"

  the witches mischeif transcends into a killing game, their shear amusement of a plan unfolding, driving them to test Macbeth to the very limits of his sanity. They set up a circumstance of which they turn his noble friend, and "brother" the thane of fife, into a threat of his fruitless crown later on. They pray upon his insecurity of guilt and meaning, as they previously did with his ambition, the sense of an unnatural understanding of his psyche is unsettling. SO unnatural. yet another triumph at their foretelling, as banquo is later assassinated.
• For none of woman born shall harm macbeth!

  the more potent apparition of the bloody child enters, in a triplet pronouncing macbeths name which is met by the perhaps humorous "had i three ears id hear thee" may conclude macbeth is drawing attention to the repetition of a play obsessed with threes, a risky danger of 'breaking the illusion' perhaps at his risky remark, creating the panicked edge of the scene. "be bloody bold and resolute" yet another triplet, solidifying macbeths ego as he is to laugh at human power, for the unnatural promise of invincibility as it seems to macbeth. Could this
• PT 2

  to magnanimous macduffs previous heedings? To undermine his danger in preceeding invincibility? Perhaps a test of the witches, as we see his paranoia still overcomes and decides to double down on the fate of Macbeth to not live. to put his "pale hearted fear" at bay.