... the beginning, and soon these good fortunes will come to a tragic end. The audience is then introduced to a group of witches. Three witches who appear as wicked and repulsive. They seem to signify all that is wrong and corrupt. Macbeth's over-confident attitude is the first characteristic the witches detect, and they take advantage of this trait to make his life as miserable as ... they possibly can. He encounters the witches in Act1, scene1, and from this point he is now a step closer to realising what his future holds ... in his future, and this gives her scope to an even grander pos...

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... they believed that witches could raise evil spirits by concocting a brew from disgusting ingredients. This is shown in the first scene of Act 4 where the witches are making a "hell-broth" to conjure up apparitions for Macbeth. They include repulsive ingredients such as, "Liver of blaspheming Jew," "Nose of Turk," and "Tongue of ... lot of things that went wrong on witches. By presenting the witches as evil, King James may have thought that more people would believe what he said about witches and start to think the same way about them, as he did. The witches have an important role in the ...

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• Grade Level: High School