the witches

• good worddd

  oxymoronic
• goooood word


  duplitious
• liarrrr

  deceitful
• anti trinity 


  agent of the devil
• Act 1: "thunder and lightening" 


  the atmosphere is ominous and volatile. foreshadow the downfall of macbeths
• Act 1: "when shall we three meet again?"


  establishes a sense of mystery and secrecy but we are in the middle of the action
• act 1: "beards"


  the masculinity is synonymous with power thus Lady Macbeth tries two become evil
• Act 1: "instruments of darkness"


  evil musicality and that it almost like enhancing and tries to draw Macbeth in
• Act 1: "foul is fair and fair is foul"


  this could foreshadow the overarching theme of appearance v reality
• Act 1:"so foul and fair a day i have not seen"


  Macbeth is seen as malleable and susceptible to their malevolent scheme because he is literally repeating what they are saying even before they meet the witches. "not seen" implies the lost of vision
• Act 3:"a pit Acheron"


  the Acheron was a river in hell which show that the witches embody evil and darkness. they are linked to hell and the thrive in this depraved environment
• Act 4:"eye of newt" "fire burn and cauldron bubble" "hell-broth boil and bubble"


  this reflect the norm of the witches that the audience would fear which reinforce their evil nature
• Act 3: "an armed head"


  emblematic of the violence of the battle and foreshadow Macbeth decapitation
• Act 4: "a bloody child"


  represent MacDuff who was born of caesarean
• "tell me" "call em"


  the imperative show that he is driven by hunger and power. he falsely believes that he is more powerful than the people who gave him his power
• "eternal curse"


  ironic because he believe that he can supersede the supernatural when they are much more powerful that him
• "none of woman born shall harm Macbeth"

  the vague because this phrase isn't literally whereas Macbeth takes them literally