Prophesies

The Three Weird Sisters are what we are known as. It is in our nature to be destructive and that is what satisfies our needs. The destruction that satisfied us the most was when we got the opportunity to change Macbeth’s fate, since it had a big impact on others as well. It was fairly simple to hook Macbeth into letting us control his fate and the rest of the destruction followed. All we had to tell him was “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Glamis!” “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!” “All hail, Macbeth! That shalt be king hereafter!” After he heard this and started believing in everything we said, it was him who made it all come true. In order to become the king, he managed to kill Duncan with some support from the great Lady Macbeth, since she also dreamt of becoming the Queen, it made our job easier. After Duncan died, his two sons (Malcolm and Donalbain) fled away, which ultimately changed the whole Elizabethan world order making Macbeth the king. In order to keep his place as king, he was so paranoid that he was willing to do almost anything, which led to the death of Macbeth's fellow general Banquo, Lady Macduff and her children and Eventually Lady Macbeth. Poor Macbeth, probably died wishing that he never met us in the first place. Overall, Destruction of so many lives by one was very satisfying.
Completed By: Omair Abdul Mateen

Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth! Fool, Fool, Fool!

Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth. What a foolish King! What a fool, indeed. He wasted no time in making his prophesies come true. He killed King Duncan and took his crown and title for himself. His heinous hunger for power and control even drove him to have his friend Banquo murdered! How foolish. Aye, how foolish. Being the fair and foul witches that we are we decided to help the troubled Macbeth. We predicted that he would come to our cavern and seek our assistance; Aye, and he did. We showed him three apparitions. Each one offered him warning and advice.

(See act 4, scene 1)

The first told him to beware Macduff. The second warned that none of woman born shall harm him. The third advised that he was safe until Birnam Wood moves to Dunsinane Hill. Being the fool he is, he did not think wisely. He deemed the apparitions false and impossible. A being not of woman born is possible, tis not? And Birnam Wood to Dunsinane Hill is not all that unfeasible. The fool did not accept or think over the warnings he was given. Instead, he only brought up his confidence more. Overconfidence will only cause failure, Tis not true? We then vanished, leaving him with enough caution and warning. If the so-claimed wise king cannot figure out things for himself who are we to fathom them for him? ‘Tis not our fault. All hail, Macbeth! All hail, foolish fool!

(By: Noshin Ahmed)

We witches are not to blame

We know that we may be witches and all but just because we interfered with a few people’s lives doesn’t mean that we are the ones to blame. We only told Macbeth and Banquo what we saw in their futures, and we also thought they had the right to know. We did not tell Macbeth to take into consideration what we told him. He also came to us afterwards seeking more prophecies, and we obeyed his wishes. Some people may say that we were the reason that so many people were killed by the doing of Macbeth, but we did not tell him to kill the Duncan. His wife Lady Macbeth was the one who kept on telling him to go through killing the King. She also pressured him into killing Duncan by questioning his manliness. Once again we would like to state that we were not responsible for the deaths of all the people killed my Macbeth, and we are also not responsible for Macbeth’s actions. He was a grown up and he was able to make his own decision, and he knew right from wrong, so he knew what he was getting into. We feel as though we were wrongly convicted of messing with Macbeth’s mind but we really didn’t. He started hallucinating and then he slowly mentally started to lose it until the day he died. We know that most people see witches as evil but we do believe that we have not done anything wrong to Macbeth or anyone else connected to Macbeth.




(Jessica Doodahnand)