MACBETH
[Aside] Two truths are told,
As happy prologues to the swelling act
Of the imperial theme.—I thank you, gentlemen.
Aside
Cannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill,
Why hath it given me earnest of success,
Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor:
If good, why do I yield to that suggestion
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
Against the use of nature? Present fears
Are less than horrible imaginings:
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man that function
Is smother’d in surmise, and nothing is
But what is not.
Macbeth,William Shakespeare, Act1.Scene3 (127-42)
Macbeth dwells on what he has just heard from he three weird sisters of his future higher statuses. He also confused on whether to take these predictions as truth or to ignore them which shows that he knows he might have to dot things that he would consider are against his nature. Here we see the tellings of the supernatural are beginning to change Macbeth’s nature for the worst which will later lead him to multiple murderous acts and in becoming a tyrant king.
