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,CHARACTERS
Minor characters
• English Doctor
• Scottish Doctor
• Sergeant
• Porter
• An Old man
• Lord
• Three murderers
• Gentlewoman – LM’s attendant
• Hecate – Goddess of Witchcraft
• Banquo’s ghost
• Three Apparitions
, ACT 1, SCENE 1
• As you read this opening scene imagine yourself being an Elizabeth
person who believes completely in the existence and evil power o
witches.
• Three witches have gathered during a storm.
• They arrange to meet with Macbeth when a battle, now in progres
over. A connection is made between the witches and Macbeth.
• They know that the battle will be over before sunset – shows thei
ability to see into the future.
• The important themes of the reversal of values / order versus diso
appearance versus reality / equivocation are introduced in this sce
, 4 The bad weather and witches create
threatening atmosphere of forebod
evil.
Desolate/deserted/infertile Witches are real and frightening; acc
open countryside – wild to tradition they preferred stormy w
Scottish landscape. and had the ability to create it.
An open place, Thunder and lightning.
The number three has
evil, magical and Enter Three Witches.
mystical associations. Witches are a symbol
The witches form an They equivocate, i.e. t
unholy trinity. ambiguous language o
The Witches call themselves the
half-truths in order to
Weird Sisters. The old English
word ‘weird’ means ‘fate’ or
destiny.
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