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'Discuss Shakespeare's presentation of the witches in 'Macbeth'. "Withered women with beards, secret, black, and midnight hags, filthy hags and juggling fiends..." But why did Shakespeare present the witches in such an unflattering way? Shakespeare was born in Stratford upon Avon, he married Anne Hathaway and had children, went to London and found work acting and writing plays and at the end of his life he returned to Stratford. His mother was Mary Arden, born of Robert Arden; a wealthy yeoman farmer. Shakespeare wrote the play, "Macbeth" based loosely on eleventh-century Scotland. He wrote this play to please and entertain the King and he made it relevant to their lives by bringing 'realism' with the characters of the witches. He selected, altered and added to the story to achieve the greatest dramatic outcome. He invented Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking and suicide, Banquo's ghost (and therefore the banquet scene), and most of the cauldron...

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