n as wholly evil throughout. They were the worst and most evil things on the planet and the witches in Macbeth saw no exception to these views.
             The witches, through three prophecies, helped put evil and the ideas of murder into Macbeth. "All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis. All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor. All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter." (Act 1 Scene 3 lines 46-48.) These prophecies are what gave Macbeth the incentive to write the letter to his wife and eventually kill Duncan. If the witches had never had spoken these words then it is possible that thought would never of even crossed either Macbeth's or Lady Macbeth's mind.
             Macbeth was at first confused and bewildered by the intense and far-fetched statements. The witch's prophecies would have had no achievements had it not been for the fact that the witches proved their genuineness. They called him by name however they had not met ever before. They also reassured their authenticity with the first two prophecies. "...hail to thee, Thane of Glamis." The first one proved to Macbeth that the witch's who he had never met before knew about him and possibly had supernatural powers. "...hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor" convinced Macbeth that the witch's could see into the future since he only found out about him being the Thane of Cawdor after the witches had left. The final verification came in the form of the Witches exit where they vanish into air.
             The witches may have planted the seeds in Macbeth's brain, but it was his own ambition that helped these seeds to grow into thoughts of murder. Macbeth was the first character to think of murder. This is indicated in his first soliloquy by phrases such as "why do I yield
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