The Witches

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The symbols of evil in Jacobean society

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Witches at the start

Stage Directions: ‘thunder and lightning’

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Witches at the start

‘Fair is foul and Foul is Fair’

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First Prophesies

‘All Hail Macbeth’… ‘Thane of Glamis’ ‘Thane of Cawdor’ ‘King hereafter’

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By Act 3 they say of Macbeth

‘by the pricking of my thumb, something wicked this way comes’

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Second Set of prophesies in Act 4

  1. ‘Armed Head…Beware Macduff’ 

  2. ‘a bloody child…none of woman born shall harm Macbeth’

  3. ‘crowned child with a tree in his hand…Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to High Dunsinane Hill shall come against him’

  4. ‘A show of eight kings…Banquo following’

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Understand the corruptive nature of man

‘Security is mortal’s chiefest enemy’