Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
The Witches - Coggle Diagram
The Witches
How does Shakespeare present the witches?
all-knowing
" “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Glamis!...All hail, Macbeth, the future king!”
evil
"I’ll drain him dry as hay. Sleep shall neither night nor day"
“All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Glamis!...All hail, Macbeth, the future king!”
withered old and wild
That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' Earth'
By each at once her choppy finger laying upon her skinny lips"
supernatural
How might the audience react to them?
frightened because how they look
intrigued because they can foretell the future
shocked about how evil the witches are
What is their role in the play?
To slowly spoon-feed and foreshadow the audience information what will happen in the future
“All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Glamis!...All hail, Macbeth, the future king!”
e “Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.
So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!”
change Macbeth from a good man to a man filled with pure evil
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? **
The flaws of Macbeth
What evidence reveals their intentions?
Intentions of meddling with the future and fates
"Fair is foul, and foul is fai"r
Changing what seemed to be a good man to a heartless man
“All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Glamis!...All hail, Macbeth, the future king!”
