Blaming the Witches for all the Action.

The people with the most interference would be the Witches. They are the most responsible for the course of action in Macbeth by William Shakespeare. The Witches

Told Macbeth, he was to be king, Banquo would father a line of kings, and conjured an apparition who told him no one born of a woman could harm him.

The Witches told Macbeth, he would be Thane of Cawdor. “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor” (1, 2, 49). The Witches told, also, told him would be king. “All hail, Macbeth, that shall be king hereafter” (1, 2, 50). This made Macbeth wonder. Soon after, he became Thane of Cawdor. He, then, knew that the possibilities of becoming king were fair. He informed Lady Macbeth and she took charge. “O, never shall sun that morrow see! Your face, my thane, is as a book where men may read strange matters. To beguile the time, look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue: look like th’innocent flower, but serpent under’t. He that’s coming must be provided for: and you shall put this night’s great business into my dispatch; which shall to all our nights and days to come give solely sovereign sway and Masterdom” (1,5,58-68). Macbeth killed the king and his guards. The Witches caused this by saying he would be king but their word spoke the truth.

The Witches, also, led on that Banquo would father a line of kings. “Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none” (1, 2, 67). When Macbeth became king, he remembered what the Witches told Banquo. He knew if this were true, Banquo’s fortune could also be true. He decided to kill Banquo. “That every minute of his being thrusts against my near’st of life: and though I could with barefaced power sweep him from my sight and bid my will a vouch it, yet I must not, for certain friends that are both his and mine, whose loves I may not drop, but wail his fall who I myself struck down: and thence it is that I to your assistance do make love, masking the business from the common eye for sundry weighty reasons” (3, 1, 116-126). He, soon, had Banquo murdered and tried to kill Fleance but he fled the scene.

The Witches conjured apparitions to tell Macbeth that no one born to woman shall harm him. “Be bloody, bold, and resolute! Laugh to scorn the pow’r of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth” (4, 1 79-81). Macbeth became cocky over a short period of time. He quit trying. “All mortal consequences have pronounced me thus: “Fear not, Macbeth: no man that’s born of woman shall e’er have power upon thee” Then, fly, false thanes, and mingle with the English epicures. The mind I sway by and the heart I bear shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear” (5, 3, 5-10). MacDuff led the soldiers up the hill, revealing that his mother had a cesarean section done. “MacDuff was from his mother’s womb untimely ripped” (5, 8, 15-16). They had a sword fight leading to the death of Macbeth and the crowning of Malcolm. “Hail, King of Scotland” (5, 8, 59).

The Witches led Macbeth to believe that he would be king , Banquo would father kings, and he wouldn’t be harmed by any man born to woman. The Witches are the main cause of Macbeth’s attitude towards what they told him.