Indeed, from the beginning, the witches" speeches all rhyme unlike other characters": "The weird sisters, hand in hand,/ Posters of the sea and land,/ Thus do go about, about:/ Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine,/ And thrice again, to make up nine" (I.iii.32-36). ... She wishes to have utter control over Macbeth, to have him do what she would like to thus lead to her ascension: "That I may pour my spirits in thine ear" (I.v.24). ... When he is still hesitant to act, she simply attacks him where it hurts, his courage and manhood: "Art thou afeard/ To be the same in thine own act and valour,/ A...

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He behaves compulsively, as if he is controlled by evil spirits rather than by his own conscious mind. ... An example of this in act 1 scene 3 when the witches mysteriously chant; "The weird sisters hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land, Thus do go, about, about, Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, And thrice again to make up nine." ... James at first doubted this story, but agreed that the winds had been strangely contrary to his own ship, and he was finally convinced. ...

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Besides who would ever suspect them as being the murderers. " Art thou afeared to be the same ion thine own Act and valour as thou art in desire? ... And live a coward in thine own esteem, letting I dare not Wait, wait upon I would, like the poor cat I the adage."... It is Macbeth and Macbeth only who is responsible for his own ambitions. ... "Will it not be received, / When we have mark"d with blood those sleepy two / Of his own chamber, and used their very daggers, / That they have done't?" ... Spurred on by is own ambition Macbeth is responsible for his destructive fate. ...

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