In a carven the three witches mix together strange ingredients. Hecate arrives and they begin to dance and sing.One witch cries out “Something wicked this way comes” : Macbeth enters. He commands the witches to answer his questions.
The witches conjure up three apparitions. First, a floating head appears and tells Macbeth to beware Macduff.
Next, a bloody child appears. The child says that “no man of woman born / Shall harm Macbeth”
Finally, a child wearing a crown and holding a tree appears. It says that Macbeth will not be defeated until Great Birnam Wood marches to Dunsinane Hill. Macbeth is pleased: since forests don’t march, he must be invincible!
Macbeth wants to know one more thing: will Banquo’s heirs have the throne? The witches perform a final conjuring. Eight kings appear walking in a line, the eighth holding a mirror, and all of them followed by Banquo’s ghost. Macbeth, furious at this sign that Banquo’s heirs will get the throne, demands answers. But Hecatemocks him and the witches vanish.
Lennox enters. He brings word thatMacduff has fled to England. In an aside, Macbeth scolds himself for failing to kill Macduff when he wanted to earlier. He vows in the future to act on every impulse, and decides to attack Macduff’s castle and kill anyone connected to him: servants, wife, and children.
Analysis:
Macbeth has become so evil that now even the witches can sense it , There is a resemblance between Macbeth and the witches now. All are wicked, all are unnatural. The head symbolizes either Macduff’s rebellion or Macbeth’s fate. By ordering everyone within Macduff's castle to be murdered are a symbol Macbeth's final step to madness : he is no longer targeting just his political enemies, but also their innocent families. Macbeth is now truly a monster.
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