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... actions making him paranoid and obscure. 2. Macbeths hallucination of the floating dagger is the establishment that he was willing to do anything to become the king. The murder was provoked from the “heat-oppressed brain” which was Macbeths feverish thinking of murdering the king. At the time Macbeth wasn’t completely insane and realized that he was just nervous of committing the crime. At that moment lady Macbeths signal came and the murder was committed. 3. The three prophecies the “ weird sisters” gave to Macbeth in Act IV were predicted beyond human understanding. The first prediction was a floating head warning Macbeth of Mcduff. The second prophecy was a bloody child stating none born of a woman’s womb could harm Macbeth. The third prophecy was a child wearing a crown holding a tree stating he shouldn’t fear anything until Burnam Wood moves to Dunsinane Hill. The result is that the floating head warns him of Mcduff who eventually takes his head in battle. The second prophecy also holds true in that Mcduff was “ripped” from his mother’s womb. The third prophecy also came true when the soldiers invading Macbeth’s fortress used the b...