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Macbeth
‘The Immoral Witches”
People from all over the world hundreds of years ago believed in witches and witchcraft and believed that they were the devil and deserve to be dead. It was believed that witches were associated with the dark and death. Among the Christian countries these witches were believed by the people as agents of the Satan, and at night performing their duties of opening graves, creating storms, hail, rain, thunder, lightening, sinking ships, dry up waterholes, change day into night and night into day. At the graves where they supposedly gathered they would dig up bodies using the body parts, and the young unbaptised children were favoured for potions and poisons.
(William Shakespear, Macbeth, Complete Edition, Page 9)
In some countries and societies the witches had people raising eyebrows. Back then, if you admitted or were believed to be a witch you would be killed either by being burnt at the stake or by being drowned.
In 1950 it was believed that John Fian could open locks by witchcraft in which he performed on King James ship in which he was travelling. James was a strong believer about witchcraft believing that burning them at the stake and drowning them was the wrong way to go about killing them. He had such a strong opinion on the theme that he published a book.
(William Shakespear, Macbeth, Complete Edition, Page 9)
Many centuries ago witches were believed to be able to act in the same way as the three weird sisters did in Macbeth. Witches were also able to see into the future and creating havoc in the communities and society, and were believed to be able to make themselves invisible to all humans making the witch-hunts acceptable like the Salem Witch Trials. You could even win prizes if you caught a witch.
The three weird sisters that played the witches had a large power and existence motive over Macbeth and his family and friends. It is unknown whether the innocent actions by Macbeth are responsible for his death. According to some people Lady Macbeth was considered a witch within Shakespear’s life. Lady Macbeth tries having more power over the head of her family and her husband after finding the letter, with more people believing she is a witch, or at least has witch abilities. The witch in Lady Macbeth forces her husband to kill Duncan bringing the evil out in her. She is not pronounced, as a witch like most other women would be because she is Macbeth’s wife.
LADY MACBETH
The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements. Come, you Spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full
Of direst cruelty.
(William Shakespear, Macbeth, Complete Edition, Page 17)
Macbeth remains as a hero, but the viewers’ beliefs of whether the witches have power and possession over Macbeth is uncertain. In today’s eyes, Macbeth and the witches are not seen as something to be afraid of. Today we can just laugh it off and not be humiliated or terrified as we all know these “witches” do not exist or if they do, they cannot harm us. In Macbeth the witches had such an impact on the life of Shakespear because if one person believed in witches they all did. Nowadays, each person has his or her own point of view, opinion, expression and interpretation of what to believe in and it is purely your choice.
Macbeth is a Scottish man who does not like conflict or evilness or commits evil crimes. He admires and adores power of encouragement especially when he kills Duncan. He continually feels good about himself because Lady Macbeth is egging him on to bring out his inner devil. After Duncan’s death he feels disbelief, guilt, paranoia and honour. All of his feelings have mixed to bring the worst of evilness out in him. Towards the end of the play the witches and Lady Macbeth have driven Macbeth crazy and into a frantic state.
Lady Macbeth however is so confident in herself that she increases the level of her goals and fulfilling them as well as having a greater self-determination of her corrupt acts.
The distractions between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth have entered the play through the blood on Macbeth’s hands after the death of Duncan and ambition has arouse helping the pair to take out more immoral evil deeds. Once the pair have completed one evil deed they cannot stop. This enthusiasm between them has become more violent and powerful for the thrown and this leads to killing Banquo, Fleance and Macduff to be sure that Macbeth has full access to the thrown and King of Cawdor.
MACBETH
Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more.
By Sinel’s death I know I am Thane of Glamis;
But how of Cawdor?
(William Shakespear, Macbeth, Complete Edition, Page 15)
Once Macbeth is King he brings nothing but trouble to Scotland. This is recognised through bad weather and abnormal behaviour and once again the witch being put into place through his character. Macbeth develops a habit of murdering any person who is capable of beating him, over powering him or becoming a threat of any kind. At this point Macbeth must over rule Malcolm so that Scotland will again have a King.
Hallucinations are a current exposure to the play recognising the witch abilities between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth. At the scene where Duncan is being killed Macbeth sees a dagger flying through the air and is heading towards the King Duncan’s room. This is surely a sign of an evil deed.
Later in the play, Lady Macbeth sleep walks and has visions of her hands being stained red with blood. She cannot control her hallucinations and both the Macbeth’s can read the images as the irregular signs of the witch abilities they both carry.
MACBETH
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch
Thee -
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still!
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight?
Prophecy is the plot in the Shakespearian play Macbeth - the witches’ prophecy that Macbeth will become King. Throughout the play the three weird sisters make a numerous amount of wisdom and prophecies towards Macbeth including Banquo’s sons will be kings, Macduff, and that no man born a woman can harm Macbeth.
The murders that Macbeth is involved with are followed by abnormal occurrences the thunder, lightening, hail, rain and the storm that occurs on the night of Duncan’s death.
(William Shakespear, Macbeth, Complete Edition, Page 9)
B I B L I O G R A P H Y
http://www.engl.uvic.ca?Faculty/MBHomePage/ISShakespear/Resources/Witches/Witches.html
http://www.akashanpathways.com/macbeth.htm
William Shakespear, Macbeth, Complete Edition 1984.
Macbeth
‘The Immoral Witches”
People from all over the world hundreds of years ago believed in witches and witchcraft and believed that they were the devil and deserve to be dead. It was believed that witches were associated with the dark and death. Among the Christian countries these witches were believed by the people as agents of the Satan, and at night performing their duties of opening graves, creating storms, hail, rain, thunder, lightening, sinking ships, dry up waterholes, change day into night and night into day. At the graves where they supposedly gathered they would dig up bodies using the body parts, and the young unbaptised children were favoured for potions and poisons.
(William Shakespear, Macbeth, Complete Edition, Page 9)
In some countries and societies the witches had people raising eyebrows. Back then, if you admitted or were believed to be a witch you would be killed either by being burnt at the stake or by being drowned.
In 1950 it was believed that John Fian could open locks by witchcraft in which he performed on King James ship in which he was travelling. James was a strong believer about witchcraft believing that burning them at the stake and drowning them was the wrong way to go about killing them. He had such a strong opinion on the theme that he published a book.
(William Shakespear, Macbeth, Complete Edition, Page 9)
Many centuries ago witches were believed to be able to act in the same way as the three weird sisters did in Macbeth. Witches were also able to see into the future and creating havoc in the communities and society, and were believed to be able to make themselves invisible to all humans making the witch-hunts acceptable like the Salem Witch Trials. You could even win prizes if you caught a witch.
The three weird sisters that played the witches had a large power and existence motive over Macbeth and his family and friends. It is unknown whether the innocent actions by Macbeth are responsible for his death. According to some people Lady Macbeth was considered a witch within Shakespear’s life. Lady Macbeth tries having more power over the head of her family and her husband after finding the letter, with more people believing she is a witch, or at least has witch abilities. The witch in Lady Macbeth forces her husband to kill Duncan bringing the evil out in her. She is not pronounced, as a witch like most other women would be because she is Macbeth’s wife.
LADY MACBETH
The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements. Come, you Spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full
Of direst cruelty.
(William Shakespear, Macbeth, Complete Edition, Page 17)
Macbeth remains as a hero, but the viewers’ beliefs of whether the witches have power and possession over Macbeth is uncertain. In today’s eyes, Macbeth and the witches are not seen as something to be afraid of. Today we can just laugh it off and not be humiliated or terrified as we all know these “witches” do not exist or if they do, they cannot harm us. In Macbeth the witches had such an impact on the life of Shakespear because if one person believed in witches they all did. Nowadays, each person has his or her own point of view, opinion, expression and interpretation of what to believe in and it is purely your choice.
Macbeth is a Scottish man who does not like conflict or evilness or commits evil crimes. He admires and adores power of encouragement especially when he kills Duncan. He continually feels good about himself because Lady Macbeth is egging him on to bring out his inner devil. After Duncan’s death he feels disbelief, guilt, paranoia and honour. All of his feelings have mixed to bring the worst of evilness out in him. Towards the end of the play the witches and Lady Macbeth have driven Macbeth crazy and into a frantic state.
Lady Macbeth however is so confident in herself that she increases the level of her goals and fulfilling them as well as having a greater self-determination of her corrupt acts.
The distractions between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth have entered the play through the blood on Macbeth’s hands after the death of Duncan and ambition has arouse helping the pair to take out more immoral evil deeds. Once the pair have completed one evil deed they cannot stop. This enthusiasm between them has become more violent and powerful for the thrown and this leads to killing Banquo, Fleance and Macduff to be sure that Macbeth has full access to the thrown and King of Cawdor.
MACBETH
Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more.
By Sinel’s death I know I am Thane of Glamis;
But how of Cawdor?
(William Shakespear, Macbeth, Complete Edition, Page 15)
Once Macbeth is King he brings nothing but trouble to Scotland. This is recognised through bad weather and abnormal behaviour and once again the witch being put into place through his character. Macbeth develops a habit of murdering any person who is capable of beating him, over powering him or becoming a threat of any kind. At this point Macbeth must over rule Malcolm so that Scotland will again have a King.
Hallucinations are a current exposure to the play recognising the witch abilities between Lady Macbeth and Macbeth. At the scene where Duncan is being killed Macbeth sees a dagger flying through the air and is heading towards the King Duncan’s room. This is surely a sign of an evil deed.
Later in the play, Lady Macbeth sleep walks and has visions of her hands being stained red with blood. She cannot control her hallucinations and both the Macbeth’s can read the images as the irregular signs of the witch abilities they both carry.
MACBETH
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch
Thee -
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still!
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight?
Prophecy is the plot in the Shakespearian play Macbeth - the witches’ prophecy that Macbeth will become King. Throughout the play the three weird sisters make a numerous amount of wisdom and prophecies towards Macbeth including Banquo’s sons will be kings, Macduff, and that no man born a woman can harm Macbeth.
The murders that Macbeth is involved with are followed by abnormal occurrences the thunder, lightening, hail, rain and the storm that occurs on the night of Duncan’s death.
(William Shakespear, Macbeth, Complete Edition, Page 9)
B I B L I O G R A P H Y
http://www.engl.uvic.ca?Faculty/MBHomePage/ISShakespear/Resources/Witches/Witches.html
http://www.akashanpathways.com/macbeth.htm
William Shakespear, Macbeth, Complete Edition 1984.