Foreshadowing


 * All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!
 * Macbeth will become King from this point forward.
 * When Macbeth is given the title that a traitor once had, it gives a hint that Macbeth too will betray someone.
 * Lennox mentions cries of birds which is believed to foreshadow someone's death. Consequently, MacDuff informed Lennox and Macbeth that King Duncan had died.
 * "It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood."
 * Macbeth predicts that his bad actions will lead to more violence; he fears that something will happen to him.
 * Macbeth feels that he has already committed so many murders and violent crimes that it would be easier for him to continue to do so, rather than go back to being a moral person and doing things the way he used to.
 * In Act 4, Scene 1, when Macbeth sees the apparitions of himself, Banquo, and Banquo's sons as king, it is foreshadowed that after Banquo and Macbeth get their throne, Banquo's children, not Macbeth's will be heirs to the throne.
 * The death of the Thane of Cawdor foreshadowed Macbeth's beheading; both of their treasonous acts lead to their beheading.
 * In //Macbeth//, paradoxes often foreshadowed an occurrence that was not right, or unnatural, parallel to the nature of a paradox itself.
 * Towards the end, Macduff seems to become the hero that Macbeth was at the beginning of the play. Thus, Macbeth's murder of the traitor at the beginning foreshadowed Macduff's murder of the traitor (Macbeth).
 * At the very end of the book, Macduff brings in the head of Macbeth, the man who betrayed Scotland. Macduff shows the head to Malcolm, the King of Scotland. This scene is very similar to the beginning of the play when Macbeth brought in the head of the Thane of Cawdor and showed it to King Duncan. This foreshadows that the same thing that happened to Macbeth could happen to Macduff.

Like in a lot of Shakespeare's works, the weather has a major effect on the events that are taking place. Whenever it is rainy and stormy, it is a sign that bad things are sure to happen in the story. This means that the reader knows when bad events are to come. The night Duncan is murdered, horses begin to eat each other, another sign of evil. When the witches are out talking to main characters or are involved in a major scene, the weather changes drastically and becomes gloomy.
 * The Weather:**

"It will be rain tonight." This quote was said by Banquo right before he was murdered, which proves that this bad weather foreshadowed his downfall.