act 4 part I

I would have to say the most predominant of the themes in this act is strangeness. Macbeth desperate for answers asks for more predictions and for some sense of security with his actions. He asks what will happen to him. In their predictions they give him a sense of security but it is an unjust feeling. They tell him that no man born of a woman can hurt him and that he will not fall until the woods march on his castle. These are worded in such a way that he assumes the trees will physically move. He also assumes that since every man is born of a woman, no one at all can hurt him. These predictions are made on purpose to fool him. The witches want to see him fall and they know the best way to do it is to keep him off guard.