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Assignment B-Macbeth

How important are the “Three weird sisters” to the play of “Macbeth”? Comment on their dramatic importance, their contribution to the plot and their connection to the development to themes in the play. How does Shakespeare interest and entertain his Elizabethan audience? Comment on his use of language and theatre in achieving this.

I believe that the “three weird sisters” play a very important role to “Macbeths” play. The witches are the first characters to appear on the stage. When the witches first appear on stage, but as we get further on into the play we start understanding what role they have been playing and it shows that they are an extremely bad influence on “Macbeth”. They chant in rhyme and rhyme, which is like a spell and the audience, shows suspense. “Fair is foul “. I think they have influenced Macbeth all through the play for his killings

 The first thing we hear about Macbeth is that he is a brave warrior (Act 1 scene 2). He dies bravely too, but he is also a cold calculating killer (Act 1 scene 2) .He murders Duncan because he wants to be king he also has Macduffs family and Banquo killed. This is mainly because of the witches at the very start of the play and their actions what they do to Macbeth, with their rhymes and chants. Some people think Macbeth must be evil because of all the terrible crimes he commits such as killing Duncan because he is very ambitious. I believe strongly that the witches persuaded and mixed with Macbeth for his actions. The witches are the main contribution to the plot because if it was never for them and there prophesies then none of it would ever have happened. It was after Macbeth met the witched an heard there prophesies that he turned to the 'dark' side.

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 When the witches first appear on the stage, there is a lot of tension from the Elizabethan audience, as they believed very strongly in supernatural. This may seem unusual for us but the power to the Elizabethan audience witchcraft was a very real thing. All over Europe thousands of woman were accused of witch craft and  tortured and burnt. The  “hideous women with beards” knew where Macbeth was as they could predict the future. They conjured up visions that warn Macbeth that everything they said would come true.


 The audience experience a little of these prophesies almost immediately in ...

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