William Shakespeare had a unique way of carrying his story. Instead of making what happens next in a story blatant and obvious, 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 after whom the story is named is visited by three examples of these symbols, foreshadowing the rest of the play, as well as providing a sort of flashback to what has been Bed. allow the reader to see a previous event in a new light as the story progresses. In Scene I of Act IV, Macbeth meets the three witches the reader has met earlier in the story. They inform Macbeth and Banquo of their prophecies in the first act, and are now using their fortune-deciding abilities to push away any doubt in Macbeth's mind, causing him to become overconfident, leading to his hamartia which is foreshadowed in the talks between Hecate. and witches. Macbeth meets the witches who add very strange ingredients to their cauldron when Macbeth enters and ...