Three Witches

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Cards (29)

  • “Something wicked this way comes” [Three Witches]
  • “No man born of a woman can hurt him” [Three witches]
  • “Fair is foul and foul is fair” [Three Witches]
  • “The mistress of your charms“ [Hecate] - The source of your powers
  • “Though his bark cannot be lost, yet it shall be tempest” [Three Witches]
  • “When shall we three meet again” [Three Witches]
  • 3 Apparitions:
    •‘armed head’
    •‘bloody child’
    •‘a child crowned with a tree in his hand’
  • Cunning - “When shall we three meet again“
  • Scheming - “Double, double toil and trouble fire burn and cauldron bubble”
  • Bitter - ”I’ll drain him dry as hay”
  • Describes as masculine - “You should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so”
  • “beware of the thane of fife”- one of the theee apparitions the witches give to macbeth
  • “none born of a woman shall harm macbeth”- one of the 3 apparetjons
  • “macbeth shall never vanquished be until great Birnam wood to high dunsinane hill shall come against him”- one of the 3 apparitions
  • the witches are sinister and ambiguous
  • the witches have mysterious origins
  • “double double, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble”, repetition is hypnotic, archetype of the supernatural in 1606
  • the witches are associated with nature and elements, thunder, fog, ligjtning- reinforcing their worldly nature
  • “thou his bark cannot be lost, yet it shall be tempest”- macbeth can’t be lost but he shall face a chaotic journey
  • the witches chants and prophecies foreshadow events of the play creating a sense of inevitablility
  • ”weird sisters”
  • the witches are united, ’the weird sisters, hand in hand’
  • the witches are enigmatic
  • the witches manipulate macbeth to exploit his ambition, showing how external influences can lead to one’s downfall
  • “fair is foul and foul is fair” , use of chiasmus introduces reoccurring theme of the supernatural, reverse parallelism
  • the witches symbolise fate and darker aspects of human nature
  • ‘fair is foul and fair is foul’ is said at the beginning of the play and it sets the tone of supernatural
  • the witches have the ability to see into the future and manipulate events
  • the witches have an unsettling appearance