the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.

• point

  The witches sense Macbeth’s approach, showing that he has become so evil he now belongs to the supernatural world.
• what does the superstitious body imagrey show

  The superstitious body imagery (“pricking of my thumbs”) reflects the witches’ mystical connection to fate and their environment.
• what adjective is used and why

  The adjective “wicked” marks a shocking role reversal: the man once seen as brave is now considered evil even by evil beings.
• what does there tone mirror

  The witches’ casual tone and rhyme mirror a nursery rhyme, which gives their evil an eerie, childlike quality, disturbing the audience.
• what does this moment imply?

  hat Macbeth is now fully corrupted — no longer manipulated by the supernatural but actively going along with it.
• whats the alternative interpretation

  Alternatively, it could suggest that Macbeth’s ambition has outgrown even the witches’ power, making him a new kind of evil.
• whst did jacobean audience believe in

  witches could predict or even control fate. That Macbeth has become part of their world would be horrifying 
• shakespears purpose

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  unchecked ambition can transform a man into a monstrous force beyond salvation.

  macbeth has become inhuman, and the audience now fears him as much as they once feared the witches.