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Influencing Visions During Shakespeare’s time people were curious about superstitious things, also some of their decisions and opinions were based on different superstitions that they believed in, that is why Shakespeare included witches in the play MacBeth. Also Shakespeare wanted to show how people can be foolishly influenced and tricked into things by superstitions. In the play MacBeth Shakespeare describes how one of his main characters is influenced by witches, which represent superstition in the play. In Act 4 of the play witches show MacBeth the three visions that influenced his decisions in the end of the play, which were: Bloody Child, Armed Head and Crowned Child. When Macbeth went to meet the witches for the second time, they showed him three visions to predict his future. One of the visions was a Bloody Child which appeared with a thunder, “Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn / the power of man, for none of women born / Shall harm MacBeth” (Mac 4.1.90-93). That vision told MacBeth that no man that was born out of woman can kill him. Witches tricked MacBeth into feeling secure. Witches chose security because they considered it to be the biggest human’s enemy. “And you all know, security / Is morta