The combination of the influence of the witches and the influence of Lady Macbeth on Macbeth are what precipitate the tragedy. The witches’ initial prophecies, where they address Macbeth with titles he doesn’t have, influence Macbeth. The apparitions in the play also have an influence on Macbeth because of their ambiguous allure. When Lady Macbeth questions Macbeth’s masculinity she influences him to kill Duncan. Even though Macbeth has doubts, Lady Macbeth convinces him to kill Duncan by calming his fears. Lady Macbeth wants to see her husband succeed and become king; she will stop at nothing to make that possible. The witches’ and Lady Macbeth manipulate and evoke Macbeth to act the way he does in the play because he is susceptible to their influence.
The witches’ deceptive predictions give Macbeth and Lady Macbeth a false sense of what is possible. The witches do not only deceive Macbeth but their predictions tempt him to commit the murder of Duncan. “From the moment that their eyes first met with Macbeth’s, he is spell-bound. That meeting sways his destiny” (Lambs 184). The Weird Sisters are the ones who give Macbeth the impulse to commit the treasonous act. “They are the supernatural beings who encourage Macbeth in his e
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She is making her love for him dependent on whether or not he carries out this murder. Then the third witch says to Macbeth, “All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!” (I, iii, 51).
The apparitions also have an influence on Macbeth. Macbeth believes strongly in the apparitions, “whose predictions seem to promise safety, but actually foretell his destruction” (Boyce 715). ‘Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil” (II, ii, 50-53). Detroit: Gale Research Incorporated, 1992. The third Apparition, a child crowned, with a tree in his hand, has news for Macbeth.
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