WITCHES TRAITS

WITCHES TRAITS

1. Appearance

   • "So withered and wild in their attire" - dirty messy clothes
   • "Look not like the inhabitants of the earth"
   • "Chappy finger lay upon her skinny lip
   • "You should be women but your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so"
     • They should be women but they look like men
     • Theme: reality and appearances

2. Power

   • "I'll give thee a wind" - control the weather
   • "Here I have a pilots thumb"
   • "Are ye fantastical?"
   • "Wither are they vanished?" - supernatural powers

3. Effect on people

   • "He seems rapt withal" - amazed by the witches
   • "If chance will have me King why chance my crown with without my stir"
   • "I am settled. False face must hide what the false heart doth know"
   • Hear it not Duncan for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or hell

4. Evil

   • "Thunder and lightening, enter three witches" - stage directions
   • "Fair is foul and foul is fair"
   • "He shall live a man forbid weary se'nnights nine times nine"
   • "Killing swine"
   • "The instruments of darkness"