DBT #389 Haunting of the Blog - Throwback Thursday Macbeth's Witches
Macbeth captures evil with this trio of witches, here let's have Wikipedia tell you: The Three Witches represent evil, darkness, chaos, and conflict , while their role is as agents and witnesses. They appear to have a warped sense of morality, deeming seemingly terrible acts to be moral, kind or right, such as helping one another to ruin the journey of a sailor. Their presence communicates treason and impending doom. During Shakespeare's day, witches were seen as worse than rebels, "the most notorious traitor and rebel that can be". [ 16 ] They were not only political traitors, but spiritual traitors as well. Much of the confusion that springs from them comes from their ability to straddle the play's borders between reality and the supernatural. They are so deeply entrenched in both worlds that it is unclear whether they control fate, or whether they are merely its agents. They defy logic, not being subject to the rules of the real world. [ 16 ] The witches...
