Act 1 Scene 3

In Scene 3, Mac Beth talks to the 3 witches and they began calling him the thane of Glaims to thane of Cawdor and finally to King thereafter.  At first Mac Beth doesn't believe what they said and asked them where they got the information from.  They didn't answer and and disappears in thin air.  Once he returns back to his home(I think its his home), some time later Ross and Angus arrives to deliever Mac Beth the message of him becoming the thane of Cawdor.  It was at that moment where Mac Beth starting to believe what the witches has said and was amazed by what has happen that he was stuck in thought for while before being interrupted by Ross.  They then depart from Mac Beth's home to go see the king.

Again, I didn't really have a reaction to this scene.  The only reaction I had was with the modern version of the play where I see the 3 witches in the beginning doing something with blood and a jacket.  That part made me cringe at this scene for some apparent reason and I can't explain why.

I don't have any questions for this scene.  I predict that with the information he received with the encounter with the witches will screwed up his fate on becoming king at some point in the story.  Once you know something's going to happen, Mac Beth will try to keep the prophecy true but it always end up changing it and result in an alternative ending where he might die or not be king.


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I chose this picture because the messenger came to deliver Mac Beth the news of him becoming thane of Cawdor.