Macbeth Act One Entrapment

"Fair is foul and foul is far"/"Such foul and fair a day I have not seen"/"My noble partner...seems rapt withal"
1. Does Macbeth becomes entrapped the supernatural power of the witches?
  1. "This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill, why hath it gave me the earnest of success, commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor If good, why do I yield in that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs against the use of nature?"
"...with his former title greet Macbeth"/"But treasons...have overthrown him"
1. Does Macbeth become entrapped in the role/fate of the Thane of Cawdor?
"Do you not hope that your children shall be kings, when those who gave the Thane of Cawdor to me promis'd no less to them?
1. Does Macbeth become entrapped by his own "vaulting ambition"?
"The Prince of Cumberland, that is a step I must fall down or else o'erleap, for in my way it lies. Stars, hard your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires"/"I burned in desire to question them further "
1. Do Macbeth's corrupt desires entrap him?
"Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here"
1. Is Lady Macbeth entrapped by her gender so she is forced to turn to the supernatural/act unfeminine masculine?
2. "What beast was it then, that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, you are a man. And to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man"
"We teach but bloody instructions, which being taught, return to plague th'inventor"/"He's here in double trust?"
1. Is Macbeth entrapped within his own conscience/morality which conflicts with his desire for power?

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