The three witches in the play <em>Macbeth</em> are considered the embodiment of various abstract elements, such as evil, fate and temptation. Their most important role is to foreshadow the events that will occur in the play. Foreshadowing occurs when the author gives the readers a hint of what is going to happen later in the story. It is unclear whether the witches are indeed only messengers, or whether they have some ulterior motive for manipulating the characters in the story.
In the short story The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka he lines reveals that:
Gregor does not want to leave.
The speaker is narrating in the third person concentrating mainly on the feelings, thoughts, and actions of Gregor Samsa in an unchanging and flat tone.
