Macbeth, a tragedy written by William Shakespeare in the 17th century, expresses clearly the strong pull that desire for power can have over a man. As the new King of England, James the 1st, believed in witchcraft; Shakespeare used this idea to emphasize the dangers of putting faith in them and also the consequences of the crime of treason. He demonstrates three main forces that create the eponym’s hamartia. Through the abundance use of literary devices and imagery, it embellishes the themes of supernatural accompanied with evil, deceptive appearances, power and ambition. Shakespeare’s text outlines how these three components can cause the corruption of a human being, which he highlights through the characters in Macbeth. As the play begins, Macbeth looks at the weather and says, ‘So foul and fair a day I have not seen’, which is an oxymoron and pathetic fallacy, as it refers to the gloomy weather that has come over, giving the setting a dark and eerie tone. Through the imagery ‘So wither’d and so wild in their attire skinny lips’ and the simile ‘look not like th’inhabitants o’th’earth’ describes the witches’ appearances as they develop a sign of the supernatural and evil. Macbeth started to believe the three witches’ prophecies as they taunted him repetitively ‘All hail Macbeth, hail to thee’. He was initially a modest character, grateful of his position in life. However, once the witches planted the seeds in Macbeths mind they started to flourish and, given his hamartia, the idea wholly consumed him. Furthermore, through Macbeth’s demand for power, Lady Macbeth’s also lust for supremacy. “That no compunctious visitings of nature shake my fell purpose,” Lady Macbeth reveals her ambition and nothing will stop her. Ambition sparks her evil, vile nature; using a disdainful tone of disgust in a soliloquy showing disapproval of Macbeth possessing through the metaphor “th’milk of human kindness�