William Shakespeare had a unique way of moving his story forward. Instead of making it blatant and obvious what happens next in a story, he would incorporate different symbols and new characters to send messages to both the reader and the characters in the story. In one of his most famous plays, "Macbeth", the main character for whom the story is named is visited by three instances of these symbols, foreshadowing the rest of the play, while providing something of a flash- back on what was read. allowing the reader to see a previous event in a new light as the story progresses. In Act IV Scene I, Macbeth encounters the three witches the reader was introduced to earlier in the story. They inform Macbeth and Banquo of their prophecies in the first act, and now, they use their fortune-determining skills to dispel any doubt in Macbeth's mind, making him overconfident, leading to his hamartia which is foreshadowed in the discussions between Hecate. and witches. Macbeth catches the witches adding some very strange ingredients to their cauldron when Macbeth enters and ...