Macbeth Coursework, What is the dramatic impact and importance of the Witches in Macbeth?

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Ollie Sweeney

Macbeth Coursework, What is the dramatic impact and importance of the Witches in Macbeth?

The witches in Macbeth have a large dramatic impact and play a key role in Macbeth, so they are also important. This play was written roughly 400 years ago and so the majority of the population then would have been very superstitious. This means that there would have been a much larger impact on the audience. The witches are also important, as with out them Macbeth would not have had the idea to kill Duncan.

The witches have a big dramatic impact in Macbeth, as I previously mentioned, in the time of the play being written the audience would have been more superstitious and a lot more scared of the witches as they were seen as the devils tools. They create a large dramatic impact as they open the whole play, so they would be the first things the audience would see and would show them that the play is concerned with evil. The witches also talk in riddle "When the hurly burly is done, when the battle is lost or won" combine this with their appearance (shocks Banquo