I think the witches are important to the play because they start the play of. They tell Macbeth and Banquo their furtues which sets the play into motion. I think this is important because otherwise if we hadn't heard the prediction and then Macbeth and Lady Macbeth killed the king anyway we wouldn;t feel any sort of sorrow for them at all, where as we can half and half sympathise with them for killing him and then the others. But it also raises the important question, which is " If the witches had never told Macbeth that he would be king, would he of killed the king????" it makes you question Macbeths motives, because Banquo hasn't forced his sons into the king chair he is waiting paitently for it too happen. It makes you question whether you think Macbeth should of left it and fallen into the king's chair by chance or by his own forceful nature.
When "Hecat" then shouts at the witches for telling Macbeth she says "hath been but for a wayward son, spitrful and wrathful, who, as others do, loves for his own ends, not for you" which makes you think that he probably would of done it anyway because he is a spiteful person who only wants to do things for his own self.
this is why i think the witches are important becasue they raise lots of questions for people to think about Macbeth.
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They do make you think whether or not the witches are just part of a future that is already written or if they are actually who sets off the events that happen after they meddle with Macbeth's future. Would the end result still be the same if they had not interfered? I think so, but it would have happened in a different way. I don't think there would be as many killings and destruction without the witches. At the time, they were a form of evil and I think this is why they are significant - to emphasise evil.
ReplyDeleteI agree, but i don't think we feel sympathy for Macbeth and Lady Macbeth just because the witches forced them in a sense into it, to me it makes them come across as weak, selfish and greedy, unlike Banquo, as you said who wasn't forceful in trying to get his sons into the king's chair. LADYBIRD! x
ReplyDeletei agree with what you have both said lol, i think because of that we can constantly change our minds on how we interpret the characters. i agree with your qeustion to, would alot of turmoil have still taken place?
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I love the comment about whether Macbeth would have killed Duncan if he had not met the 3 witches :) I'd like to think that there is a bigger force controlling all of their fates, binding them together and that it would have happened some way or another.
ReplyDeletei agree about questioning his motives, does it show that banquo is good and macbeth is corrupt, it is interesting that they both had predicitions and reacted so differently, which shows the contrast between both.
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It does indeed make you question his motives and whether they were simply down to human flaws (such as greed and ambition) or is there a bigger picture that is controlling everything, including the Witches?
ReplyDeletei agree with the fact that macbeth and banquo reacted so differently to their predicted fates. it does convey which of the two were the gooder man.
ReplyDeleteanne i apologise for my DISGUSTING spelling
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there we go.
Is he spiteful? Who is he trying to spite? Has the prediction merely sparked off Macbeth's potential to be evil? Why does he not stop to consider his actions, like Hamlet?
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