Macbeth Timeline

Question 1

Act 1, Scene 3: Witches make prophecy

Answer 1

The day is foul due to the witches raising a storm, and fair because of Macbeth’s victories on the battlefield.

Macbeth does not know but his very first words in the play echo the words of the witches, “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” (1.1.11), and so the audience sees immediately the calamitous inseparability of Macbeth and the forces of darkness.