Witches

• The Witches are the first exposure we get as an audience to the chaotic and inverted world of Macbeth. The opening of the play creates a paradox, the contradictory statements are reflective of appearance versus reality.
• ➔ One witch says, “When the battle’s lost, and won,” (1.1) which suggests there are two sides to every story. One side loses, but one side wins.

  ➔ One of the most famous lines is, “Fair is foul, and foul is fair,” (1.1), the use of the conjunction “and” shows both good and bad can exist at the same time. Even the weather is reflective of this, as Macbeth declares “So foul and fair a day I have not seen”.