Shakespeare, whom playwrights greatly respect for his conventional writing technique, transforms Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles into a play. The acts of the play Macbeth show the historical facts provided by Holinshed's Chronicles, but with Shakespeare's addition of legends and dramatic imagery, Macbeth is now a dynamic play. In Macbeth Shakespeare uses imagery to reveal the true nature of the characters. An important fictional topic that Shakespeare constantly uses is darkness. It uses darkness as a symbol to represent the evil vices in the characters and the literal darkness of the night. Each character in the play Macbeth displays darkness in a distinct way. The main character, Macbeth, portrays Shakespeare's darkness beautifully. They introduce darkness into the work. The witches, who usually gather in a dark, secret hideout, utter spells and mix potions. The first witch sings, "Days and nights have thirty-one / Poison smothered while sleeping" which is the first ingredient of the potion, a poisonous frog (4.1.7-8). After that, the third witch sings along with the next ingredient, "hemlock root dug in the darkness", which is an ingredient that is mined from the "darkness". (4.1.25). After the witches add the ingredients, they sing the song “Black Spirits” together. At this moment Macbeth enters and cries, “and now, secret witches, black and midnight” (4.1.48). Macbeth calls the witches witches because they are black and evil. The witches even show Macbeth his future when they sing: “Show his eyes and grieve his heart./Come like shadows; therefore depart” (4.1.110-111). They describe Macbeth's false image of the future as a shadow that is usually dark and in which the characters are in action, especially at midnight. The meetings of the three witches, the murder of King Duncan, the murder of Banquo, and then the battle between Malcolm and Macbeth, which ends Macbeth's life, all occur at midnight. In a conversation between the three witches the first witch says “She will sleep neither night nor day” referring to Macbeth (1.3.19). He would do this by convincing Macbeth to kill his host, King Duncan. Lady Macbeth says: “Come, thick night,/And wrap yourself in hell's darkest smoke,/Lest my sharp knife see the wound it makes,/Nor heaven spy through the blanket of darkness/To cry “Here , here." !” (1.5.50-54) the night he intends to kill Duncan with Macbeth. He asks for a dark blanket of smoke to cover the sky so he cannot see their darkness as they kill Duncan. Another example of nocturnal darkness is when Macbeth says, “Fleance, his son, who keeps him company,/ Whose absence is no less material to me/ Than his father's, must embrace the fate/ Of that dark hour. Decide yourselves apart./ I will come to you soon” (3.1.140-144). Macbeth intends to kill a second person, Fleance, Banquo's son. He plans to do this in the “dark hour,” which is night again. Sleeping at night is a great struggle for characters who have had doses of darkness. In the beginning is Macbeth