Setting: In Shakespeare, weather mirrors characters emotions and tone of scene (pathetic fallacy) The thunder and lightning mentioned in this scene represents deserted and gives a more eery and suspenseful feel.
Character: Witch 1,2 and 3: evil woman of power, very threatening. Witches were real in the 1600's. Ugliness and malformation= evil. What would they have looked like? Warts, crooked nose, straggly hair, claw like hands. Perhaps they were ATTRACTIVE witches? May have been seen as too powerful or dangerous beauty; being able to manipulate men through looks.
REMEMBER: The king was obsessed with witch craft, because they are linked to weather, nature and spells; they can control. They are also linked in a medical way; with potions that effect health and body.
Vocabulary: *Hurley Burley- a big commotion; mainly in combat.
*Familiars- animals used/held by witches and servants of the dark; often cats, toads, snakes, etc.
Additional notes: Back then, body from and physical attributions were linked with mental and emotional attributes. Some doctors did weird things to heal.. "Leeches".
Witches will be a huge factor throughout the entire play-they set the scene off the top and have powers.
The charm or spell that ends the scene may set the entire play in motion and affect everything else that happens- what does this spell actually do? There is an inversion spell that turns good to evil and.
viseversa.
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