Macbeth: The Power and Influence of Supernatural Forces

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MACBETH. Speak, if you can. What are you? FIRST WITCH. All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis! SECOND WITCH. All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! THIRD WITCH. All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be King hereafter!... And to Banquo they say THIRD WITCH. Hail! FIRST WITCH. Lesser than Macbeth, and greater. SECOND WITCH. Not so happy, yet much happier. THIRD WITCH. Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none. So, all hail, Macbeth and Banquo! The witches talk in rhyming couplets both in the text and video, which recognizes them from every other character. This poetic gadget has made their lines among the play's generally important. Likewise, the Macbeth witches are said to have facial hair in the text version, making them hard to recognize as either gender. Last, they are constantly joined by storms and unforgiving climate. Overall, these qualities give them a supernatural cast. Detailed Analysis At the point when the "Weird sisters" disclose to Macbeth that he will move toward becoming king, they allude him to the going ahead of time, however don't determine when he will have his spot on the position of authority. In this manner, their expectation damages time To start with the witches were not wearing garments that would recommend them of being witches, second, Shakespeare conveyed in his text that the three witches were "Weird”, and the two men could barely recognize their gender. In any case, in this video we can tell that they are women who happen to be nurses by profession. Additionally, amid that time(era) the main individuals who filled in as medical attendants were women. In this manner, it wasn't difficult to recognize that they were of the fairer sex. Once more, they didn't appear to be dangerous at all until the point when the third witch pigged out the dead man's heart out. I saw that the everyone in the hallway vanished once their shrewd side came forth and began droning those

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