crime continues to affect Macbeth’s state of mind. He imagines he sees Banquo’s ghost and is “unmann’d” in front of his guests. Lady Macbeth is still in control of her faculties and Macbeth is amazed that she can be so fearless even in the face of apparitions recently murdered, “You make me strange/Even to the disposition I owe,/When now I think you can behold such/And keep the natural rub of your cheeks,/When mine are blanch’d with fear” (1059). Macbeth becomes concerned over the ghost demanding “blood for blood” and continues to become obsessed over the deeds he has done.
When Macbeth once again encounters the three witches, they show him three portents or apparitions: an armed head, a bloodied child, and a child crowned with a tree in his hand. These portents are important because Macbeth will be vanquished by a man who disguises his soldiers as a forest as he moves on Dunsinane and Macbeth. However, Macbeth’s interpretations of these portents is imp
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