They tell me only: "sleep, sleep, sleep." The wind rippled the maple leaves like little warm love thrills. The katydids began their slumber song: they are at it yet. My whole being was abandoned to the soothing and penetrating charm of the night. Some stole up like little mice to peep at me. Sister, where thou A sailors wife had chestnuts in her lap, And mounchd, and mounchd, and. Human shapes flitted by like intangible things. Act I - Scene III Where hast thou been, sister Killing swine. The Weird Sisters are stirring the pot, both. The night is solemn and it means mystery. An enigma wrapped in a mystery By Act 1, Scene 3, things are getting stranger (if that's possible) and more confusing. And the outlines of trees and foliage nearby blended in one black mass and the night came stealing out from them, too, and from the east and west, until the only light was in the sky, filtering through the maple leaves and a star looking down through every cranny. The primary function of this scene is to reveal the prophecy which will become the catalyst for Macbeths ambition and all his future actions in the play. It came creeping, creeping stealthily out of the valley, The night came slowly, softly, as I lay out there under the maple tree. In the royal palace at Forres, Banquo paces and thinks about the coronation of Macbeth and the prophecies of the weird sisters. The image of Macbeth fearlessly killing and wounding foreshadows his later encounters with blood and death, and with fear.
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