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Act 1 Scene 1
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Macbeth
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Kujani Wanniarachchi
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Act 1 Scene 1
Witches vow to meet Macbeth after the battle and they call their familiar spirits
Planing to meet Macbeth
Stage direction
'Thunder and lightning'
ominous dreary atmosphere
Pathetic fallacy
'A desolate place'
Alone, away from humanity, outside normality
'through the fog and filthy air'
Idea of threes
solo lines
One after the other
Chant like
Not in blank verse
Trochaic tetrameter
Rhyming couplets
'trouble/double'
due to the sense of rhythm and rhyme- hypnotising effect
Speak in unison
Opposites- antithesis
'Fair is foul, and foul is fair'
alliteration
confusing, illusive nature of the witches
difference between appearance and reality
paradoxical lines
contradictory or inconsistent ideas that are spoken as facts
'When the battle's lost, and won.'
equivocation - use of misleading/ ambiguous language intended to deceive others
Idea of the supernatural
Mentioning Macbeth - looking into the future
Reference to their familiars- demon advisors
'Graymalkin'
grey cat
'Paddock'
toad
Reflects Elizabethan beliefs about witches
Stigma around witchcraft
ominous sign
verbs
'hover'
ghastly- reflects audiences' beliefs
Reflects the supernatural hold on the earth
flying
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