The witches initiate their plan & the story unfolds...
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair Hover through the fog and filthy air."
"All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis!"
Macbeth & banquo are approached by the 3 sisters.. The witches give Macbeth a prophecy about whats going to happen.
"All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!"
"All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!"
Speak, if you can: what are you?
Macbeth is not pleased with the information he has gotten & wants more. but the witches disappear
"Good sir, why do you start; and seem to fear . Things that do sound so fair? I' the name of truth,Which outwardly ye show?Are ye fantastical, or that indeed . "
"Into thin air. Their bodieses melted like breath in the wind. Into the air; and what seem'd corporal melted. As breath into the wind. Would they had stay'd!
The king has been amazed by you Macbeth & has requested your presence, you are now thane of Cawdor.
Macbeth receives news that the king wants him to be Thane of Cawdor. Macbeth dwells on the thought of killing the king.
Just like those witches said, i'm now the Thane of Cawdor & next ill be king .. but then I have to kill the king
The man was the cawdor is being sentenced to death for treason
Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth to kill the king. He goes back to kill the guards and laters hires hitman to kill his best friend Banquo while his son escapes.
Macbeth arrives & asks the witches to tell him about the prophecies. The sisters do as he pleases and tell him three apparitions. The first being a head in armor saying "beware macduff". Second is a bloody child telling him no man born of a woman shall harm him. & the last apparition being a crowned child holding a tree telling him he's safe until birnam wood moves to Dunsinane Hill.