Question

At the start of Act I, scene iii, of Macbeth the witches reappear, talking about how they'll deal with a sailor whose wife has annoyed one of them. What do they plan to do to this sailor? And why do you think Shakespeare opens this scene with information that seems so unrelated to Macbeth and the matters at hand?

Answer 1

Macbeth is a Shakespearean tragedy.  Shakespeare opens scene III of Act II with the witches to show their petty and mischievous nature. They plan to take the sleep away from the sailor by changing the wind direction.

What happened in Act I, scene III of Macbeth?

Act I, scene iii of the play starts with the conversation between the three witches that like to interfere with the mortal world and try to control the wind so that the sailor won't be able to come to port.

The writer opens the scene with this irrelevant content to show the devilish and petty nature of the witches and how they mingle and interferes with the lives of human to create chaos.  

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