The role that witches or the witchcraft plays in Macbeth, would be evil and harmful. It has been stated in the text that “groups of wishes attempted to murder King James 1”. Also it says “witchcraft led to the torture and death of hundreds of innocent women and several men”. The role that witches play in Macbeth leads to really dangerous stuff.
Witches and Witchcraft is fascinating topics to people in Elizabethan Europe/England, because when you read it, it sounds interesting. The white witches were seen as healers, they healed people who where sick. Some witches were known good but some were known evil and the good witches were known fascinating to the people in Elizabethan Europe/England.
The witches portrayed at female despite not having a specific gender identified by Shakespeare or their behavior, because, I guess they where important but a lot of people did not care about him or something that they are not described as what gender that they are in. But as it stated in the text that “they were usually old,poor and unmarried”.
The role of three witches/weird sisters play in Macbeth is, a vital role . Without them the story would have never happened. They all have supernatural powers in which they use to feed the easy manipulated Macbeth with ambition. Familiar= something that is same as the other one. Coven=something that is around. Sabbath= to be selfish or being someone who doesn’t care. Devil’s Mark= something that is dark and evil as a mark. Pagan= something that you are scared of.
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