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Supernatural
Throughout ‘Macbeth’, the supernatural causes murder, and…
Supernatural
Throughout ‘Macbeth’, the supernatural causes murder, and chaos within the country, and ultimately leads to King Macbeth’s death.
Body One - The supernatural impact on Macbeth through the witches’ predictions in act one provides him with the confidence to murder in cold blood.
Evidence 1: First Encounter with the Witches ‘All hail, Macbeth! … Thane of Glamis! /… Thane of Cawdor! / … King thereafter!’
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Evidence 3: ‘Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep’ (after the murder of Duncan)
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Body Two - The supernatural impact on Macbeth causes chaos in Scotland, due to the unrightfull King ruling the country, disrupting the chain of being.
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Evidence 2: ‘It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash/Is added to her wounds’
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Body Three - Macbeth gains reassurance and trust in the witches after their apparitions, resulting in his death as they betrayed him.
Evidence1: "Strength of their illusion/shall draw him on to his confusion"
"damned all those that trust"
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Apparitions:
1 - "Beware Macduff"
2 - "...none of woman born shall harm Macbeth"
3 - "Macbeth shall never vanquished be, until/Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill/Shall come against him"
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By combining the presence of witches with similar themes in Macbeth, Shakespeare uses witchcraft to signal that Scotland is in a vulnerable and unsettled state due to the disrupted chain of being. What made witches dangerous was their overweening ambition, likewise, seen in Macbeth as he falls prey to the same tendency.