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Superstition, How Shakespeare presents attitudes to kingship and the…
Superstition
witches
they appear in act 1 scene 3 and tell macbeth and banquo their prophecies this links to foreseeing the future and magic hence witchcraft
king james I wrote daemonologie about witches and claimed they attacked him so was happy the witches were portrayed in a horrible light
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hecate is the head witch who the other three witches disobey and it shows how the great chain of being is disturbed
they are alone on the moor in the opening scene surrounded by fog and there is a storm with thunder and lightning
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other themes
gender
witches were often people who didn't have husbands or were widows they were also people who knew homemade remedies they were targeted partly due to misogynistic reasons
the witches are targeted and isolated in the play due to their womanhood and the fact they don't fit the stereotypical ideas of what a woman is
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