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Hecate admiring the witches' potion in Shakespeare's Macbeth can be seen as her approval of their manipulation and deception. By praising their work, she is encouraging their mischievous and evil actions, highlighting her role as a supernatural force guiding their actions towards darkness and chaos.
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How does Hecate feel about Macbeth?
She is the one who, after finding out that 'her' witches (the witches that she taught to do things like casting spells etc) were talking and "spilling too many beans" to Macbeth about the future, she, as the head witch, shows Macbeth the Apparitions, and she is the one who is a little more evil than the witches, as they did not try to trick Macbeth as much as she did, (she said herself that "security/is mortals' chiefest enemy") only obeyed her orders or had some fun.
Why is Hecate upset In Macbeth?
No body Knows for sure. I do not think it was Shakespeare because he write in the Iambic pentameter and this Scene is written in the Iambic tetrameter. Many people think it was Thomas Middleton since the songs the witches sing were afterwards published under his name.
What does hecate think of the witches involvement with Macbeth?
No, Hecate has no interest in Macbeth particularly. She's ticked off that the other witches told him things without giving her a chance to get in on the fun. But she is much more interested in the happy frolicking that apparently is what witches do.
Why did the Greeks think Hecate was important?
Hecate is the goddess of witches, and her power over magic would make her very important. In some versions, she has rulership over the earth, sky, and sea. She is also associated with crossroads, entrance-ways, fire, light, the Moon, magic, knowledge of herbs and poisonous plants, and necromancy.
What would be the reaction of the Jacobean audience when faced with the witches in Macbeth?
Although the people of that era believed in witches, the witches in Macbeth were very probably not portrayed as frightening. The very silly scenes involving songs and the headwitch Hecate (which were likely not written by Shakespeare, but were written also in the Jacobean Era) make the witches sillier than the fairies in Midsummer Night's Dream, and although these scenes are never played nowadays, there is every reason to think that this was actually how the witches were played at first. This may have been the only way to get them onstage in a time when people would have been genuinely frightened of representations of real witches.
What does Emerson admire about children?
Emerson admires that children are not afraid to be themselves.
Did vikings believe in witches?
i think they might of believed in witchcraft but did they believe in witches
What does Juliet place beside her as she takes the sleeping potion?
i think it was a dagger in case the potion didn't work
Why do whitches and vampires hate each other?
vampires and witches hate each other for several reasons 1 vampires think that witches are Strong and they think witches stole the vampire name when they were going to be called witches and last they take witches for their power so they can have vvampire and which power
How do you get a potion on pixie hollow if not a member?
I think the "Potion" you are talking about is actually called a dye bottle, and there is no way to get it if you are not a member
Why people afraid of witches in the 16th and 17th centuries?
because witches were very scary then people didnt think witches were very nice
Why do you think critics are so sure that someone other than Shakespeare's wrote Hecate's speech?
There are a number of reasons. Hecate and the witches talk differently in the disputed scenes (Act 3 Scene 5 and parts of Act 4 Scene 1) from the way they do elsewhere (in 1,1 and 1,3). In Act 1 their speech is terse and mysterious. But Hecate talks like Titania from A Midsummer Night's Dream ("Upon the corner of the moon There hangs a vaporous drop profound; I'll catch it ere it come to ground" or "And now about the cauldron sing Like elves and fairies in a ring.") She is cutesy and silly, not threatening. There are references to two songs which the witches are to sing in the disputed scenes-- "Come away, come away", and "Black Spirits"--accompanied no doubt with a song-and-dance number. These songs are not by Shakespeare; they are from Thomas Middleton's play The Witch. And the speeches for Hecate sound like the characters in that play. Look it up if you like; the text still exists and is available online. And in addition, Hecate's plan revealed in her Act 3 Scene 5 speech is to control Macbeth by making him overconfident with an overconfidence potion, so he'll come a cropper. But such a development sucks all the interest out of the play: we are interested in what will happen to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth because of the guilt they feel over Duncan's murder. If Macbeth's behaviour is due to magical intervention none of that matters. So the reasons add up to this--this sounds like Middleton, not Shakespeare, and some of it is indisputably Middleton. It is inconsistent with the portrayal of the witches elsewhere and the structure of the play as a whole. And let's be honest: what director would want to have a song in the middle of the cauldron scene with the scintillating line "Titty, Tiffin, keep it stiff in."? The answer is, of course, none.
