The Evil of Witches and Lady MacbethIn Shakespeare's play Macbeth, the main character, Macbeth has many motivations and influences that lead him to commit evil actions. Lady Macbeth is the main one. She pressures Macbeth to kill King Duncan. There are also the three witches who give Macbeth prophecies that manipulate him and cause disaster at the end of the play. Macbeth's character changes throughout the play. At the beginning of the play, Macbeth is a kind and loyal hero, and by the end, he becomes an evil tyrant. One day Macbeth comes home to his wife (Lady Macbeth) and tells her all about the prophecies and how he was crowned. Thane of Cawdor by the King of Scotland, King Duncan. For the reader, this was a big mistake; he told his wife. With sudden amusement, Lady Macbeth hatches a plan to have her husband execute the king, but thinks her husband is kind enough to pull it off. “It’s too full of the milk of human kindness.” Lady Macbeth creates a plan: "And we shall not fail. When Duncan sleeps...When in a swine's sleep.../Their tempered natures lie as in a death, which cannot you and I execute an unguarded Duncan. » Macbeth was shocked and surprised by Lady Macbeth's proposal and refused to follow her orders Then Lady Macbeth makes her grand return saying: “What beast was not then When you dared to do it, then you were a? man; and to be more than you were, you would be all the more the man…” What Lady Macbeth said, made Macbeth snap and so he used his plan to attack Duncan The prophecy that Macbeth found. rather seductive was that he would be the future king "Hail, Macbeth!, who will be king from now on, Macbeth does not believe the witches' words thinking they are lying, but slowly begins to come to his senses, when the witches!" things the witches say come true. Macbeth then believes that he should let fate take its course by waiting and letting what was said happen, and if it doesn't, it will. "If chance wants me to be king, why can chance crown me without my agitation.