Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Supernatural Macbeth
- Act 4 sn 1
- Lang devices
- Sensory description
- "That have eaten he
nine farrow; grease
that sweaten"
- Shows how the witches
are evil and that they
are tricking Macbeth.
- Stage
directions
- "Thunder. First
Apparition: an
armed head"
- Suggests they have
control over the weather
which makes them
against the natural order.
- Content
- The witches are
given Macbeth a
prophecy that will
lead to his downfall.
- Context
- Jacobean audience
believed witches were
linked to the devil and
divine right of kings.
- Structure
- Rhyming couplets
- Show there power and
also make their tone
different to the
audience so fear is felt.
- Play
- Content
- The witches are evil since they mess
with natural order. They have to
correct this and in turn manipulate
Macbeth to restore natural order.
- link to deaht
- Shows that the witches are evil
- They mention
shipwrecking a sailor.
- Banquo's ghost
- Potentially manipulates
Macbeth in having to seek
the witches out who betray
him.
- Irony and karma.