Witches

• ‘Fair is foul and foul is fair‘

  • Paradoxial couplets
  • Introduces the theme of duality
  • Repetition of fair and foul suggest the ideas are inchangeable
  • The audience can see wrong from right and right from wrong
  • Definite verb ‘is’ shows fail is more dominating than fair
  • Foreshadowing and hinting to audience, warning them that it is not as it seems
• ‘Thunder , lightning and rain’

  • rule of 3
  • Pathetic fallacy of an ominous tone