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Who Is To Blame Essay - Sample (KS)
Who Is To Blame Essay - Sample (KS)
Who Is To Blame Essay - Sample (KS)
Dealing with the first supernatural element in the play leads us to the
witches. They make their appearance in the very first scene where you
witness them prophesizing and declaring that there is going to be blood
shed, and one force will rise to be the victor. The witches’ roles in the
beginning are to grab attention, stimulate the audience, create an evil
atmosphere so the audience is scared, and to foreshadow what is going to
happen. The scenery is also in a thunderstorm yet again making the entire
scene compelling to the reader. We see them again when they encounter
Macbeth, except this time their roles are different. They not only spark
interest into the audience, but they toy with Macbeth. They insidiously speak
out loud all of Macbeth’s secret thoughts and prophesize him gaining the
throne. As a result of this, Macbeth’s ambitious and murderous temptations
are stronger than ever. From his actions and from the way that he was
morally weak enough to let witches manipulate him, we see the downfall of a
great man. The witches are therefore important to the play because they are
the ones who created a problem in the first place through Macbeth.