given the title, he replies ¡§why do you dress me in borrowed robes?¡ (I, iii, 108). The witches seem to have a clairvoyant sense: that they are aware of whatever is happening to people around them. They knew that Macbeth would gain the title of the Thane of Cawdor when they were never at the battlefield themselves. Also, the fact that Macbeth almost immediately receives the title of Cawdor makes him have confidence in the other predictions of the witches. Then the third witch says to Macbeth, ¡§All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!¡ (I, iii, 51). The Witches¡ attempts at misinformation succeed not only because they are favorably interpret Macbeth¡s future, but also because their revelations came true almost immediately. ¡§Macbeth surely means that knowledge of the witches exceeds what can be known by ordinary humans, for they have a privileged perception of the future, which the later do not¡ (Ghose 236). Many people in Macbeth¡s time religiously believed in superstitions. ¡§By virtue of their spiritual substance they are acquainted with the causes of things, and, thought the application of wisdom gained by long experience, are able to prognosticate the future events in relation to Macbeth¡ (Curry 240). Macbeth¡s problem is that he is views the predictions literally. Macbeth is only willing to hear what he wants to of the witches predictions, and he believes in the witches because their prophecies are so alluring. The witches influence Macbeth to want to kill Duncan. They are what Snider calls ¡§instruments of destiny, [who] give Macbeth his impulse¡ (213) because they give Macbeth the initial temptation to advance his position in life. It wasn¡t even Macbeth¡s idea, ¡§but the witches¡ that he should have the throne. They said it first¡ (McCarthy 281). If it weren¡t for the witches Macbeth would have been fine with his title, the Thane of Glamis. ¡§But the crown was not...