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MACBETH: WITCHES INFORMATION - Coggle Diagram
MACBETH: WITCHES INFORMATION
BACKGROUND
BELIEFS
everybody beliefs that supernatural occurs in daily life
there was a belief that magic could be used for good and bad
magic practitioners believed they could cure illness
"cunning men and women"
witches are using for bad/dark magic
to make a deal with the devil
to seek power and wealth
use their magic for harm
they were thought to: raise storms, destroy crops,poison food, maiming and killing people and animals
believed they could fly
part of christian belief
universal belief
people believed that thunder and lightning was the devil
linked with infanticide and cannibalism
RELEVANCE TO JACOBEAN PERIOD
1599
he published his book
best seller
across the entirety of europe all leaders were obsessed with witchcraft
GENERAL
witches symbolise things that were backwards and have been turned upside down
between 1450-1750/1560-1650 is the peak for witchcraft and mass executions and persecutions of witches
45,000 women executed for witchcraft
witches and misogyny go hand in hand
Macbeth is written mid way through this period