1. Cassie, John, Kaite, and Anne
Act 1, Scene 1
Cassie, John, Kaite, and Anne

2. Summary
Three witches gather in an ominous bog type place outside the city to talk about the prophecy of Macbeth.

3. Hidden Meanings
Repetition of three (witches, weather, speaking pattern). 3 represents evil/bad luck in this time period.
Witches don’t speak in iambic pentameter like the rest of the play. Iambic pentameter mirrors the rhythm of the human heart, which the witches don’t have.
Unless helping in small villages, witches were seen as the takers of children’s lives.
They use inversion which was bad luck. Inversion was kind of like mirror images and life and death.
All of these little things put fear into a very superstitious audience.

4. Important Lines
“Fair is foul and foul is fair” – This is inversion and represents evil. Also, Macbeth uses this in the opening of scene two using foul first. This foreshadows the evil which he sides with in the end.