Macbeth, Lesson One Thought Question Five, Concerning Witches

The First Witch was talking about how a women's, perhaps herself, sailor husband had left to go on a sea voyage and how she was going to curse him with all sorts of dreadful things. The events the Witch describes are much alike to the later events in the play, and Macbeth much like the man described by the Witch. Macbeth was cursed to "...waste away in agony." and never to "...catch a wink of sleep, either at night or during the day." One can almost pity Macbeth's situation, for he was a good man, done in by the tricks of the devil and by his own ambition.