The three witches

The three witches

1. Vicious

   • They want to make everyone go into a fury

2. Conniving

   • Stirring up trouble by telling Macbeth and Banquo about future

3. Thin lips

   • Odd looking
     • Grotesque and frightening
       • Comic and ridiculous
   • Choppy fingers
     • When Macbeth and Banquo first meet the witches , a description by Banquo
       • Some are portrayed as young and beautiful
   • Beards
     • Masked and hideous

4. Three sister witches appear to talk about when they are going to create trouble

   • They always speak in riddles
     • Loyal to one another
     • Only understand each other
   • Mysterious

5. Whenever they appear the weather is awful

   • Thunder
   • Lightning
   • Storms

6. Hidden ambitions?

   • Want King Duncan to die?
   • Cunning
     • They use Macbeth to do their own "work"
   • Prophecies?
     • "Vision" into the future
     • Possibly for their own adgenda

7. Plan ahead

   • They planned to meet Macbeth and Banquo
     • They knew the meeting place
     • Farsighted

8. Supernatural phenomena

   • Related to the three fate in classical mythology
   • Future sight