supernatural

• The audience would have immediately recognised the witches in 'Macbeth' as evil creatures with harmful intentions . Macbeths willingness to trust them would be seen as a clear weakness in his character
• Macbeth trusting the witches was a clear sign of weakness in his character linking to the fact that king James 1 wrote a book , daemonologie, which says that witches cannot be trusted
• the witches are the agents of chaos they deliberately mislead characters such as Macbeth which causes Macbeth to have guilt
• " is this a dagger i see before me ... come let me clutch thee " - the vision of the dagger appears when Macbeth makes up his mind to kill Duncan . This instinct is to grab it representing his desires for power . The dagger could be a vision to tempt Macbeth , a warning for him to reconsider his actions or a hallucination representing his guilt conscience - its left up to the audiunce to decide