Macbeth, who is a character from the book Macbeth by William Shakespeare, is has a noble life as a warrior, whose life was dramatically changed because of three weird sisters, also known as the witches. “So wither’d and so wild in their attire/ That look not like th’ inhabitants o’ the earth/And yet are on’t/ Live you? /or are you aught/ That man may question/ You seem to understand me/ By each at once her choppy finger laying/Upon her skinny lips: you should be women/And yet your beards forbid me to interpret/That you are so/” (1.3.39-47) This illustrates how they are unusual to all worldly people and they were on track to make Macbeth into a unworldly person by telling him the prophecies. They foretold Macbeth on how he will receive kingship, but the thing he doesn’t understand was that he could have waited. So instead of patiently waiting until something happens to the king he abruptly killed him at his own home to acquire kingship. Through the book he has to undergo many pains and hardships because of this such as the illusions.

This affected the killings and murders of many people because of the prophecies that the witches told. During the war, as Macbeth and Banquo were walking down the road, the three weird sisters surprise, confront, and then inform the prophecies to them. The witches advise that:

All hail, Macbeth! that shalt be king hereafter!

(1.3.50)

Lesser than Macbeth, and greater.

not so happy, yet much happier.

(1.3.63-65)

Banquo and Macbeth leave home happy thinking how if this is true then Macbeth will be king and Banquo’s children will take kingship after him. This is where the witches should have shut their mouths and not told them about the prophecies because they changed Scotland because it affected the kingship and how people lived their during the ruling of Macbeth. The first killing, was the killing of King Duncan because of how the witches played with Macbeth and with the help of Lady Macbeth’s greed, Macbeth was forced upon to murder the king. If the prophecies were not told Macbeth would have still been a loyal warrior to King Duncan, but instead he got the idea because he and his wife wanted to be king and queen of Scotland. He already starts going crazy with him seeing the bloody dagger leading him to Duncan’s room. These are the sort of things he starts to see when he goes crazy, which will be spoken about throughout the paper. This is the first, most important and most influential thing that Macbeth has done in the play. After the killing Duncan he has guilt for what he did and starts going crazy again by saying “Whence is that knocking/ How is’t with me, when every noise appalls me/ What hands are here? Hah! They pluck out mine eyes/ Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this

blood/ Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather/ The multitudinous seas incarnadine/ Making the green one red/”(2.2.54-60)

Subsequent he receives kingship he is suspicious that Banquo is suspicious that Macbeth has killed the king so he sends out two murderers and tells them not to talk to each other, just incase they revolt against the plan. Then at the end he sends one more as an accomplice. When he sent them out he wanted them to kill not only Banquo, but also his only son Fleance so he can keep his kingship away, because the prophecy states that Banquo’s offspring will be king. The lone approach for Macbeth to prevent the prophecy not to come true is by killing both Banquo and his son, Fleance. The three murderers kill Banquo, but Fleance somehow escaped from them. This is the foremost and most significant thing that Macbeth has failed at in the play. The next and last horrible killing Macbeth went through was the killing of Macduff’s wife and children. This shows how he was just scared of Macduff and of what he was supposed to be afraid of. These are why the witches are to be blamed for the fall of Scotland, by using Macbeth as an accomplice; With Macbeth not even knowing it.

The next thing that the witches did that created the fall of Scotland was how the witches created Macbeth to go crazy and see things that aren’t even there. Macbeth imagines that he sees a bloody dagger pointing toward Duncan’s chamber. When he sees the dagger he says, “” Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?” (2.1.33) He also sees Banquo’s ghost at the dinner that the murderers killed him, which many people attended. This is where he looks for a seat, but in his mind he can’t find one. The people there point at a chair that Banquo’s ghost is sitting on, but no one

else can see it besides Macbeth so he tells them how someone is already sitting there and when he looks he is surprised to find Banquo’s ghost there. The ghost walks toward him with gashes and wounds all over his face, which the murderers gave him, until Lady Macbeth saves him by telling that he is not feeling well.

The last thing that the witches contributed greatly to the fall of Scotland was by showing Macbeth the apparitions. The apparitions gave Macbeth ideas, which actually confuse him. The first apparition is an armed head, summoned to warn Macbeth that Macduff is coming back to Scotland and that he should beware of him. The second apparition is a bloody child and it tells Macbeth that no man born of a woman can do him harm to him. This apparition gives him great courage as he says, “”Then live Macduff/ What need I fear of thee?” (4.1.78-80). The third apparition is that of a child wearing a crown and holding a tree by saying Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill. He then says to the third apparition’s prophecy will never be true because “Who can impress the forest/ Bid the tree unfix his earth-bound roots?”(4.1.91-3) All these apparitions give him ideas, plans, and thoughts of what he is going to do for the future just like the prophecies did, and the prophecies just ruined his life.

The fault of the killings, horrible lives lived by the people of Scotland and the reasons that Macbeth was confused was all created by the witches and they should be at full blame for what they did.