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Witches Macbeth's Tempt Make Prophecies Future Murder Portrayed

Text Three Witches make prophecies about Macbeth's future and tempt him to murder. The Witches have been portrayed in very different ways on stage: as supernatural harbingers of chaos; as instruments of evil to tempt Macbeth to destruction; as figures of destiny or fate and as figments of Macbeth's overwrought imagination.

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