Download Encounters: The Witches in Macbeth

Kim Harrison
First Witch
When shall we three meet
again?
Second Witch
When the battle’s lost and
won.
Third Witch
That will be ere the set of
sun.
1.1
What he
[the thane of Cawdor]
hath lost, noble Macbeth
hath won.
1.2
1st:
2nd:
3rd:
Hail to thee, thane of Glamis!
Hail to thee, thane of Crawdor!
All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be
king hereafter!
1.3
If you can look into the seeds of
time
And say which grain will grow and
which will not,
Speak, then, to me, who neither
beg nor fear
Your favors nor your hate.
1.3
1st:
Lesser than Macbeth, and greater.
2nd:
Not so happy, yet much happier.
3rd:
Thou shalt get kings, though thou
be none.
1.3
Glamis, and thane of Cawdor!
The greatest is behind.
1.3
If chance will have me
king, why, chance may
crown me
without my stir
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1.3
But ’tis strange.
And oftentimes, to win us to our
harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us
truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to
betray ’s
In deepest consequence.
1.3
Macbeth realized that the king
had to die for him to gain the
crown, so he plotted and
carried out Duncan’s murder.
Afterwards, he was
crowned king.
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Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor,
Glamis, all,
As the weird women promised,
and I fear
Thou played’st most foully for ’t
3.1
Beware Macduff/Beware the thane
of Fife.
[N]one of woman born/Shall harm
Macbeth.
Macbeth shall never vanquished be
until/Great Birnam Wood to high
Dunsinane Hill/Shall come against
him
4.1
The attacking army carried boughs
to hide behind, making it seem like
the forest was moving.
Macduff did kill Macbeth in the end,
for “Macduff was from his mother's
womb/Untimely ripp'd,” and was
not born naturally.
 If
you, like Macbeth, were
presented with a prophecy
concerning your life, how
likely would you be to act
upon it?
 How
far would you go to
ensure this prophecy does/
does not happen?
 Do
you think the witches’
prophecies are the reason the
play turned out the way it did?
 What
does this show about the
power of knowledge?