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- Supernatural - "weird sisters", cause mischief from there supernatural powers, potions, beards
- Power - shown by rhyme, understand the weakness of targets (play on M's ambitions like puppeteers), most powerful characters?
- Spiritual
- Appearance - different, mythical, intangible, unnatural, unconventional image of women (not submissive, pretty, motherly, caring)
- Not patriarchal - witches are women and have power
- Natural - setting at the beach, tide controlled by nature/moon etc.
- Speech - rhyming couplets "Double, double, toil and trouble" , seperates them from the other characters who speak in blank verse almost comical like malevolent nursery rhymes
- Unreasoning, instinctive evil
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- To tell Macbeth of the prophecies
- We are left to ask whether the witches are independent agents of toying with humans lives, or agents of fate, whose prophecies are only reports of the inevitable.
- Supernatural, outside the limits of human comprehension
- Who's to blame?
- The witches meet in foul weather - they speak of thunder, lightning, fog and filthy air. This introduces Macbeth as a dark, dangerous play, in which the theme of evil is central.
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- Form and structure - are the opening scene of the play, shows the importance and role in the play
- shows that some dependence of the story line has to be involving them
- foreshadow events from the very beginning - "When the battle's lost and won"
- "fair is foul, and foul is fair" - binary opposites.
- Prophecies - all come true
- "for a charm of powerful trouble"
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- "you imperfect speakers"
- "strange intelligence"
- "supernatural soliciting"
- "you secret, black, and midnight hags!"
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