Analysing the FeminineMacbeth is a play in which the female characters have a great deal of influence in terms of the direction the male characters will end up. Male characters like Macbeth develop a desperate ambition that leads him on a path full of consequences based on prophecies and influences imposed by women. This desperate ambition has a major influence on the path of the show. Female characters like the three witches and Lady Macbeth play off of characters like Macbeth, who is probably the most important character in the play. By meeting him, telling him seductive prophecies and manipulating him, to make Macbeth overcome his obstacles; While Macbeth does not know that later in his life these prophecies will come true but full of consequences. These three agents of destiny whose prophecies contain the inevitable and this cruel and very ambitious Lady Macbeth use feminine methods such as manipulation to gain power; which shows that in comedy women can be much scarier and more ambitious than male characters due to the paths available to them due to gender. The three witches also known as "the three strange sisters" are three witches with dark thoughts and unconscious temptations to evil. Although the witches are servants of Hecate, these three appear to be very independent and very powerful; in fact the three witches are the most dangerous characters in the play, both being very powerful and evil. Through the play in which these three speak in rhyme, their most famous and most repeated phrase is "Double, double, toil and trouble, / The fire burns and the cauldron boils", which is said in most of the scenes where they .... .. half of the paper ...... demonstrated that they can be as ambitious and violent as men through their actions and intentions. Nunez #7Works Cited Page 1) Allcock, Bradley . "The Roles of Masculinity and Femininity in Macbeth." 12.2009.Web. 12.2009.2) Asp, Carolyn. "BMCC Library: Remote Access." BMCC Library: Remote Access. Np, 1981. Web.11Dec.2013.3) Daniel, Albright. "BMCC Library: Remote Access." BMCC Library: Remote Access. Np, March 17, 2005. Web. December 11. 2013. .