Macbeth: The Three Witches

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use this technique to give the audience a sense
of what is to come or what exactly is going to happen to a character.
Foreshadowing can be easily detected or it cannot be noticed at all until
the end of the play or story. In Shakespeare's Macbeth, Shakespeare uses
the prophecies of the witches and thoughts of Macbeth himself to foreshadow
within the play. And Macbeth himself detects them somewhat as does the
audience.
In Macbeth, Shakespeare uses the three witches as main sources
foreshadowing. In the play they are conveyed as prophecies. The audience
experiences a little of these prophecies almost immediately in the opening
scene and act of the play. When they talk about meeting Macbeth they say
they will greet him, "when the battle's lost and won." (Shakespeare, pg.1)
And then they yell together, "fair is foul, and foul is fair."(Shakespeare,
pg.1) These two examples foreshadow that some sort of evil will be coming
and that there will also be a victory of sorts, but ...

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