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  • The floating dagger
  • Banquo's ghost
  • The Witches

Three good examples of the supernatural elements. They create the structure for the entire play and give suspense

The use of supernatural beings and events play a large role in Macbeth, it creates interest in the audience such as...

When King Duncan is murdered, the "Chain of Being" is broken.

Analysis: Dramatic Purpose

6. Advance the Plot: “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of/ Cawdor!/ All hail, Macbeth! That shalt be king hereafter.” (1.3.51-53) The witches aspired Macbeth to commit crimes for his vaulting ambition to come true.

1. Reveals Character: “Are ye fantastical, or that indeed.” (1.3.56) Banquo reveals that they see the three witches, but are believed to be the creatures of the imagination and don’t live on the earth and bring destruction.

Supernatural

Adjective

(of a manifestation or event) attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature:

‘a supernatural being’

2. Background Information: “There to meet with Macbeth.” (1.1.8) The Second and Third Witch indirectly give us an idea that they are planning to start another problem in Scotland. They are the catalyst of the story.

7. Suspense: “He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear/ His hopes’ bove wisdom, grace, and fear.” (3.5.30-31) The witches have given the story suspense because we don’t know what their outcome and benefits are for themselves.

Noun

Manifestations or events considered to be of supernatural origin, such as ghosts:

‘a frightening manifestation of the supernatural’

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8. Atmosphere: The witches symbolize the dark atmosphere throughout the story because they want to cause trouble for Macbeth.

3. Dramatic Contrast: “Whiles night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.” (3.2.58) Throughout the book, the witches and evil spirits were giving the atmosphere of chaos and deception.

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9. Relief: “Upon her skinny lips: you should be women,/ And yet your beards forbid me to interpret/ That you are so.” (1.3.46-48) Banquo makes a joke about the witches that because of the long beards they have, you cannot distinguish if they are women or men. This gives humour in a serious situation.

4. Parallelism: “My lord, his throat is cut; that I did for him.” (3.4.18) The supernatural and Macbeth both bring chaos and conflicts to their atmosphere for their satisfaction.

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5. Foreshadow: “The raven himself is hoarse/ That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan.” (1.5.41-42) The raven foreshadows the Duncan's death as it is an omen of the death.

10. Imagery: “Into the air; and what seem'd corporal melted/ As breath into the wind. Would they had stay'd!” (1.3.85) Macbeth describes how the witches disappeared in thin air.

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Significance

  • “Prithee, see there! Behold! Look! Lo! How say you? / Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too. / If charnel houses and our graves must send / Those that we bury back, our monuments / Shall be the maws of kites.” (3.4.72-76)

The Importance of the Supernatural

  • “Thither he / Will come to know his destiny. / Your vessels and your spells provide, / Your charms and everything beside.” (3.5.16-19)
  • The supernatural aspects were meant to confuse Macbeth

  • To bring out Macbeth's vaulting ambition

Background Info

Ultimately the witches and others manipulate Macbeth into believing he must kill King Duncan to get what he wants .

At the time, what King James feared most was that witches were planning to kill him

Shakespeare wrote Macbeth to honor King James, who was the patron for the play itself. King James was a fanatic in the study of demonology, and believed that witches were sprouting all over Scotland with intentions to overthrow him.

He thought of himself as an expert on witchcraft, and during his reign in Scotland (prior to being King of England) he started large scale witch hunts, and began the “Witch Trials”. During these trials, hundreds of women who were accused of “witchcraft and treason” were put to death by law.

Later on, he became King James Ⅰ and ruled over England, this is when Shakespeare wrote Macbeth.

(Several of the play's characters were derived from ancestors of James, such as Banquo)

  • “Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff. / Beware the thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough.” (4.1.73-74)

The first apparition that appears before Macbeth and the witches and warns them of Macduff.

  • “Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn / The power of man, for none of woman born / Shall harm Macbeth.” (4.1.81-84) The second apparition appears before Macbeth and the witches, which further convinces Macbeth that he is untouchable

  • “Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care / Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are. / Macbeth shall never vanquished be until / Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill / Shall come against him.” (4.1.94-98) The third apparition appears before Macbeth and the witches

The Supernatural

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