Witches quotes

• "Sleep shall neither night nor day"


  Links to macbeths and lady macbeths lack of sleep

  Witches prevented sleeping
• "Fair is foul and foul is fair"


  First indication that things may not always be as they appear

  Good is evil and evil is good

  Oxymoron
• "All hail macbeth"


  Confirms that macbeth will become king for the audience

  Anaphora

  Lines become more meaningful and memorable in readers mind
• "When shall we three meet again"


  Witches will definitely meet

  Audience knows witches will meet again
• "Double, double toil and trouble "


  Alliteration

  Focuses attention on their tricky speech which leads to some wrong choices from macbeth

  Symbol for chaos and destruction the witches bring

  Macbeths failure to interpret words led to his fall
• "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes"


  Second witch senses approach of something evil

  Macbeth arrives shortly after

  Underscores macbeths transformation into a figure of malevolence