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WITCHCRAFT (BASIC ANALYSIS (Symbolic of evil, Macbeth refers to the…
WITCHCRAFT
BASIC ANALYSIS
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Witches represent instinctive evil something outside the limits of human comprehension - perhaps the reason Lady Macbeth pleads "Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here" - imperative
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ACT 1 SCENE 1
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Shakespeare places more emphasis on them as prominent characters as they speak in rhyming couplets opposed to other character who speak in blank verse
Stage directions also link the Witches to a more eerie world "Thunder and lightning. Enter three WITCHES"
"I come, Graymalkin" - they have powers of transformation and metamorphosis
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair" - juxtaposition of natural order
BASICALLY
At the time the play was written, people and even the King - James 1, believed in the supernatural and the existence of the witches
The witches are the first characters we were meet in the play and act as a catalyst for the main events - the murder of King Duncan
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CONTEXT
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To the Jacobean audience, witches had to make a pact with the devil, as a consequence rejecting any belief in God