Setting: Witches! This means that we will see them interact with Macbeth! This will set the real problems in motion.
Character: Banquo; Macbeths best friend. He's just under or slightly equal to Macbeth in title.
Vocabulary: usurp- to steal the throne and claim it without direct blood lineage.
Paradox- Something that is contradictory in the same sentence; the juxtaposition of contradictory statements or facts.
Notes: In this scene, the witches are said to be butch and it's mentioned they have BEARDS OF POWER. Are the witches manipulating Macbeth or they are they actually controlling him? The witches say things from the past, present and future. Macbeth acts frightened by this; a possibility for this would be due to their mentioning of Macbeths secret dream (to be king) or because he was thinking about usurp.
Banquo questions his soberness when he and Macbeth see the witches "poof". Now everybody believes he will be king. Can the devil speak truth? Satan manipulates; his job is to test you.
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