macbeth supernatural

Who are the Weird Sisters?

Three witches who conjure spirits and make prophecies.

What is the first apparition?

A floating head warns Macbeth of Macduff.

What is the second apparition?

A bloody child tells Macbeth that no one born of a woman can harm him.

What is the third apparition?

A crowned child holding a tree tells Macbeth he is safe until Birnam Wood moves to Dunsinane Hill.

"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble."

The witches chant, encapsulating their malevolent intentions and the brewing of dark magic.

"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes."

The witches sense Macbeth's approach, acknowledging his descent into evil.

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair"

A paradox uttered by the witches, suggesting that appearances can be deceiving and moral boundaries are blurred.

"Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep"

Macbeth's guilt-ridden exclamation after killing Duncan, indicating the irreversible psychological damage he has inflicted upon himself.

"Out, damned spot! out, I say!"

Lady Macbeth's desperate attempt to cleanse imaginary bloodstains, symbolizing her overwhelming guilt and descent into madness.

"Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?"

Macbeth's hallucination before killing Duncan, representing his wavering resolve and the supernatural influence driving him to commit murder.

"Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe"

Macbeth laments that he has no heirs to inherit the throne, a consequence of his deal with the supernatural and his actions to secure power.