The Witches

• “Fair is foul and foul is fair hover through the fog and filthy air” (1,1)


  good is bad and bad is good , confusion and chaos from the start - the rhyming suggests the witches were casting a spell
• “All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter” (1,3) 


  Macbeth WILL become king
• “Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none” (1,3)


  Banquo’s sons will become king
• “By the pricking of my thumbs something wicked this way comes” (4,1)


  Rhyming couplet - emphasises Macbeths wickedness
• “None of woman born shall harm Macbeth” (4,1)

  Tricking Macbeth into thinking he is invincible
• “Macbeth shall never be vanquished until Great Birnham wood to High Dunsinane Hill shall come against him” (4,1)


  Also tricking Macbeth into thinking he is invincible