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Macbeth
Witchcraft
Throughout the ages people all over the world, people believed in witches and witchcraft.
The people of Shakespeare's day were no different.
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In Christian countries they were thought to be agents of Satan, that they are going about their business at night. They were believed to gather near graves to conduct their evil rites and make poisons.
What the three weird sisters perform in Macbeth, witches were supposed to be capable of doing.
It was believed that they could see into the future and that they were able to sink ship, create storms, hail, thunder and lightening. They could dry up the springs and turn night into day.
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That Macbeth is easily captured by their power and by their prophecies.
That they never lied to him, but made him deceive himself.
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Macbeth
Macbeth is the telling of a story of a brave Scottish general who receives a prophecy from a trio of sinister witches that he will become King of Scotland.
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He begins his reign as he is racked with guilt and fear soon becomes a tyrannical ruler. Because of this, he was forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion.
Arrogance, madness, and death by Macbeth and Lady Macbeth was because of the bloodbath.
Macbeth was most likely at the early reign of James I in 1606. Who had been James VI of Scotland before taking to the English throne in 1603.
James was a patron of Shakespeare's acting company, and all of the plays he had written under James' reign, Macbeth most clearly reflects the playwright's close relationship with the sovereign.
Shakespeare paid homage to his king's Scottish lineage, because Macbeth is a figure from Scottish history
The witches' prophecy that Banquo will found a line of kings is a clear nod to James' families claim to have descended from the historical Banquo
The Great Chain of being
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That the Great Chain of being includes everything from God and the angels at the top, to humans, animals, plants, rocks and minerals at the bottom.
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You were a noble, or a farmer, or a beggar because that was the place God had ordained for you.
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Patriarchal Society
Elizabethan society was patriarchal, meaning that men were considered to be the leaders and women their inferiors.
That women were regarded as "the weaker sex", not just in terms of physical strength, but emotionally too.
That they were believed to always need someone to look after them.
If they were married, their husband was expected to look after them, but if they were single a male relative was expected to look after them.
Even though there was an unmarried women on the English throne, the roles of women in society were very limited.
There were very clear expectations for men and women. The men were the breadwinners and the women were the housewives and mothers.
On average, women would just birth to a child every two years. But a lot of babies and children died sickness.
Childbearing was considered a great honour to women, as children were seen as blessings from God.
Women were not allowed to enter professions, but they were allowed to write works of literature, providing the subject was suitable for women
A man was seen as the head of the marriage. That the husband was able to command his wife to do anything he pleased.