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How does Shakespeare present the witches in an interesting and dramatic way?
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'How does Shakespeare present the witches in an interesting and dramatic way?' Unlike today, back in the 15/16th century witches were regarded very seriously, as the inciters of plagues, evil and misfortune, unlike now, where the witches appear like a joke rather than a serious matter. Witches were supposed to possess all sorts of weird powers to be able to tell the future and control humans. At that time witches and evil were seen as being a synonymous, as witches were meant to be in direct contact with the devil himself. Clear evidence of this appears when the three Witches come together in Act I, scene 3; where they discuss what one of them had done to a certain woman, who refused to give some chestnuts to her to eat: A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap, And munch'd, and munch'd, and munch'd: 'Give Me,' quoth I... And thrice again, to...
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