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What role do the witches play in influencing Macbeth's decision to murder the king?
The three witches in Macbeth can be viewed as evil for various different reasons. But first of all you must consider the time the play was set and what the religious morals the people had. If you do not know the answer, it's that the audience Shakespeare wrote this play for were extremely religious.
The witches in the play Macbeth are constantly referred to as animals and there is a scene where one of the three witches changes her form and takes on that of a rat. Well this could be seen as an act of evil because if you know the fable Adam and Eve, Satan/the devil changes his form into becoming a snake which tempts Eve into eating the apple from the forbidden tree. Well the witches changing form can be depicted from that bible story - and anything associated with the devil can be deemed as evil. Another part in the play is when one of the witches refers to another as "Paddock" which in old English was the name given to toads. If you Google toads and their symbolism in Elizabethan times, they were pure evil and there were many tales linked to Toads.
And at the beginning of the play they star with "fair is foul and foul is fair" (I think, I'm not sure!) well this is chanting and one only chants when praying to dark magic and most of the play is set in darkness which also sets the mood for the play which has a pathetic fallacy effect as the mood reflects that of the weather.
To conclude, yes the witches in Macbeth are evil.
- Hope that helped. I'm doing Macbeth essays in year 12, AS English Literature myself and those are just points I gave, but you can expand further - cause they are pretty vague. :) x
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