Images in the play Macbeth appear in just about every scene. There are also terrifying hallucinations that occur. The characters in the play sometimes have trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality. Whenever there is a fantastical, skewed image, it is a result of guilt or foreboding evil. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are the characters to which these chimerical sights appear. The two main characters are the center of controversial devilry happenings.
             Hallucinations can be caused by a number of things. Drugs, Schizophrenia, mania, kidney failure, fatigue, or grief are among the many. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth suffer from both grief and fatigue, although there is no proof against them suffering from any other ailments, they also suffer from guilt. Whenever there is a question of the authenticity of an image, the two are affected by guilt or grief.
             The first unreal image is that of the bearded witches. Macbeth and Banquo meet the three weird sisters after they cursed an old sailor. Translated from Old English, the word weird means fate. The weird sisters' prophecies are supposed to tell the fate of Macbeth; however, neither Macbeth nor Banquo know whether the witches are real. "You should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so" (I.iii.45-47). The witches soon vanish into thin air, but only after telling Macbeth that he will one day be thane of Cawdor and king and then Banquo's sons will be kings. Their appearance and their sudden evanescence lead the readers to believe that there are no witches, that the witches are just a symbol for an evil future. As soon as the witches leave, though, Ross comes to Macbeth and verifies a prophecy. "...call thee thane of Cawdor; in which addition, hail, most worthy thane! For it is thine" (I.iii.105-107). Because the first hallucination was seemingly true, the rest, throughout the play, seem real to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
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