witches

• fair is foul and foul is fair 


  -literally meaning good is bad and bad is good,repeated by macbeth later on which reflects the confusion chaos and disorder from the start of the play
• all hail macbeth that shalt be king hereafter 


  the witches prophecies for macbeth he will become thane of cawdor
• imperfect speakers 


  -macbeth does not understand them but wants them to continue
• that look not like the inhabitants of the earth and yet are on it

  -juxtaposition

  -highlights their sub human nature
• you should be women but your beards forbid me to believe so

  -the witches transcend normal humans biological limits