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In the play, the supernatural, which takes the form of the witches, is both a motive force (the prophecy sets things in motion) and also a commentary. Macbeth, the character, starts by being ambivalent to the witches and their prophecy, but he relies on their prophecies more and more as the play goes on, because he has nothing else to hold on to.

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