Cards (4)

  • "Is this a dagger I see before me?" Act 1

    > Witches intervention
  • " Tis said they eat each other" Act 2

    > Reflects the Civil War in Scotland both in the beginning and end|
    > Unatural for horses to eat each other as killing a king was seen as against nature (after Macbeth killed Duncan)
  • "Armed Head" / "Bloody Child" / "Child Crowned, with a tree in his hand" Act 4

    > 3 apparitions conjured up by the witches to tell Macbeth's future
    > Armed head represents dead soldiers in Civil war
    > Bloody child represents Macduff as a baby as ripped out mom's belly
    > Crowned child represents Banquo's Children
  • "The table is full" Act 3

    > The witches conjuring the ghost of Banquo
    > Might be due to the paranoia