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"A desolate place" creating an ominous atmosphere Stage direction : Thunder and Lightning pathetic Sets tone for evil and failacy darkness ↑ "When the battle's lost and won" this is a paradoxical statement which would add to the audience's confusion and interest. - The witches are presented as ambiguous creatures ~ the contradicting statements and there to meddie with natural confusion implies the witches are order (GCOB) -it's like a riddle, audience might expect this of the Supernatural Supernatural = terrifying for a contemporary audience CONTEXT: in the 1600s.people were very superstitious during James I reign, witchcraçt was illegal james I loved the supernatural and wrote the book "Demonology" about it Shakespeare wrote the play to appeal to the Ring ACT 1 Scene 1 opening with witchcraft would be an attention grabber during Jacobean era, many unfortunate events were Diamed on witchcraft Great Chain of Being God set out a natural order, if disrupted chaos ensues "There to meet with Macbeth" first introduced to him through the witches they have established Macbeth as their target related to supernatural = cursed? Macbeth is the eponymous hero so unusual that he has been made a target witches can see the future they know he is wear / has Strong ambition and know this be his namartia (fatal flawl will ↳y foreshadows his down fall eponymous nero 71 book is named after nim the witches speak in trochaic tetrameter - this is a chant-like rhythm This could suggest casting a spell which would unerve a contempory audience rhyming couplets-separate them from other...
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Alternative transcript:
characters "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" ~murry 7 paradoxical-beware things which appear too good to be true ~ all three speak in unison power of supernatural "fog and filthy air 4 plaque, infestation, atmosphere pollution-witches fog- unclear-things not as they seem bring darkness (deceitful) The witches delight in bad things nappening "in thunder, Lightning or in rain?" pathetic fallacy ~Immediately sets tone for the rest of the play - dark, violent, eerie, mysterious don't know what is happening or why
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"A desolate place" creating an ominous atmosphere Stage direction : Thunder and Lightning pathetic Sets tone for evil and failacy darkness ↑ "When the battle's lost and won" this is a paradoxical statement which would add to the audience's confusion and interest. - The witches are presented as ambiguous creatures ~ the contradicting statements and there to meddie with natural confusion implies the witches are order (GCOB) -it's like a riddle, audience might expect this of the Supernatural Supernatural = terrifying for a contemporary audience CONTEXT: in the 1600s.people were very superstitious during James I reign, witchcraçt was illegal james I loved the supernatural and wrote the book "Demonology" about it Shakespeare wrote the play to appeal to the Ring ACT 1 Scene 1 opening with witchcraft would be an attention grabber during Jacobean era, many unfortunate events were Diamed on witchcraft Great Chain of Being God set out a natural order, if disrupted chaos ensues "There to meet with Macbeth" first introduced to him through the witches they have established Macbeth as their target related to supernatural = cursed? Macbeth is the eponymous hero so unusual that he has been made a target witches can see the future they know he is wear / has Strong ambition and know this be his namartia (fatal flawl will ↳y foreshadows his down fall eponymous nero 71 book is named after nim the witches speak in trochaic tetrameter - this is a chant-like rhythm This could suggest casting a spell which would unerve a contempory audience rhyming couplets-separate them from other...
"A desolate place" creating an ominous atmosphere Stage direction : Thunder and Lightning pathetic Sets tone for evil and failacy darkness ↑ "When the battle's lost and won" this is a paradoxical statement which would add to the audience's confusion and interest. - The witches are presented as ambiguous creatures ~ the contradicting statements and there to meddie with natural confusion implies the witches are order (GCOB) -it's like a riddle, audience might expect this of the Supernatural Supernatural = terrifying for a contemporary audience CONTEXT: in the 1600s.people were very superstitious during James I reign, witchcraçt was illegal james I loved the supernatural and wrote the book "Demonology" about it Shakespeare wrote the play to appeal to the Ring ACT 1 Scene 1 opening with witchcraft would be an attention grabber during Jacobean era, many unfortunate events were Diamed on witchcraft Great Chain of Being God set out a natural order, if disrupted chaos ensues "There to meet with Macbeth" first introduced to him through the witches they have established Macbeth as their target related to supernatural = cursed? Macbeth is the eponymous hero so unusual that he has been made a target witches can see the future they know he is wear / has Strong ambition and know this be his namartia (fatal flawl will ↳y foreshadows his down fall eponymous nero 71 book is named after nim the witches speak in trochaic tetrameter - this is a chant-like rhythm This could suggest casting a spell which would unerve a contempory audience rhyming couplets-separate them from other...
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characters "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" ~murry 7 paradoxical-beware things which appear too good to be true ~ all three speak in unison power of supernatural "fog and filthy air 4 plaque, infestation, atmosphere pollution-witches fog- unclear-things not as they seem bring darkness (deceitful) The witches delight in bad things nappening "in thunder, Lightning or in rain?" pathetic fallacy ~Immediately sets tone for the rest of the play - dark, violent, eerie, mysterious don't know what is happening or why