Section 1 Summary Thunder and lightning crash about a wild Scottish moor. Three haggard old women, witches, materialize out of the storm. In eerie, chanting tones, they discuss where they will meet again--upon the heath, after the battle, to confront Macbeth. As quickly as they arrived, they disappear. At a military camp near Forres, King Duncan of Scotland asks a wounded sergeant for news about the battle between the Scots and the Norwegians. The sergeant, who …showed first 75 words of 6150 total…

…showed last 75 words of 6150 total…en a sympathetic hero, at least not since Scene iii, but now he has assumed such distorted proportions, such moral repulsiveness, as to make his death a powerful relief. Ambition and bloodlust must be checked by virtue for the sound and fury of human existence to resolve into order and form; only with Malcolm's defeat of Macbeth and assumption of the crown can Scotland, and the play itself, be restored from the chaos of Macbeth.