Shakespeare has presented the witches as strange but powerful characters in the play. The stage direction "Thunder and lightning". The three witches bring chaos wherever they go. It can be argued that the witches have triggered a little seed of ambition in Macbeth, a little mind of his. This can go into further detail by when the witches come in, "Thunder and lightning", the stage imagery and pathetic fallacy link the chaos and evil to the weather, this also shows how they have not just one but two destructive and chaos weather's and the witches play an important role as the character's essence plays a role in the atmosphere and portrays this idea of fate or free will when i they say "king hereafter" this were they plant an seed of ambiton of the mind of macbeth this part of fate or free will macbeth makes the seed or should i say the plant of ambiton bigger by watering full of devoutness that eventually leads to his downfall for and the plant dying is his downfall fate.mysterious.destructive that let him believe it was all god plan but thet played macbeth by his own game it fall into trap to fulfill the Prophecy. In the Jecosbeans, people would be horrified by the unnatural evil of witches, whom they believed to be servants of Satan; however, the people from the 20th century would have different thoughts about the witches that they have tempted Macbeth into thinking this was his Destiny and to become king, but an impatient man has to disturb the natural balance of order.