Witches

• May have been seen as a single character
• Supernatural, mysterious and manipulative
• Plan ideas in Macbeth mind and let ambition do the rest
• Represents evil and the disruption of natural order
• Sense of unease and the unsettling atmosphere of the play
• There role is to insight Macbeth‘s ambition and drive him towards his fate
• They speak in rhyming couplets and chant like rhythms
• Physical appearance is not explicitly detailed. The audience being distinctly unearthly.