What does Macbeth look like?

Answer 1

In Macbeth they would be seen wearin old rags that were dirty and torn.In plays it differs but they would usually (and in macbeth) would be seen in old rags and anything to make them ugly, or purple dresses that looked torn.

According to the original script, they are withered and wild looking with skinny lips, and not quite human. They look like women, but they have beards.

Answer 2

Macbeth looks like whatever the actor playing him looks like. If the actor playing Macbeth in your production has brown eyes and hair, no glasses, looks like he has just been in the bush and not very cool, then that's what Macbeth looks like in your production.

Answer 3

Shakespeare didn't make any movies, as the technology wasn't invented until centuries after his death. There have been a lot of movies made about Macbeth in the 112-odd years people have been making Shakespeare movies, and the witches are portrayed in many different ways.

It is common to portray one witch as old, one young, and one middle-aged. But it isn't always so. In the 2006 Australian action movie version of the play they are portrayed as schoolgirls.

Answer 4

I don't remember the play really giving a description of the witches. It is not what they look like that is important but what they tell Macbeth of his future.

Answer 5

"So wither'd and wild in their attire that look not like th'inhabitants o' the earth and yet are on't . . . you should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so."

Answer 6

they actually have long nails????

Answer 7

They look a bit like Jam