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What is the role of the Witches and to what extent are they responsible for Macbeth's tragic end.  

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What is the role of the Witches and to what extent are they responsible for Macbeth's tragic end. The witches play a small but important part in the play "Macbeth". They are seen as supernatural to the cast and by the audience. So as the witches are at the beginning of the play the audience is immediately drawn and interested. They immediately show the audience that they are supernatural when in the first scene they predict the weather, we should notice as the audience that they pick three types of weather that they should meet in as three types of weather for which there will be a lot of chaos, "In thunder, lightening, or in rain." These three types of weather immediately give the audience a feeling that the witches are a source of darkness and mystery. It tells the audience that the witches are evil "people". "Macbeth" was a play...

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