Witches Quotes

Question 1

Fair is foul and ___

Answer 1

Fair is foul and foul is fair
Act 1 Scene 1

Fricative alliteration shows how they love to cause chaos

Supernatural, Shakespeare wanted to emphasize that Witches should never be trusted, Relates to James I’s book Daemonologie on the danger of Witches and how they reversed the natural order of things

Question 2

All hail Macbeth, ___

Answer 2

All hail Macbeth, thou shalt be king…!
Act 1, Scene 3

Exclamative Sentence, helps illustrate how the Witches are already planting seeds of ambition into Macbeth’s mind

Ambition, Divine Right of Kings, the supernatural deliberately misguides and misleads to cause chaos in this order

Question 3

Thou shalt get Kings, ___

Answer 3

Thou shalt get Kings, thou be none
Act 1 Scene 3

Alliteration, helps show they love causing problems and tension, even between 2 comrades

Ambition, leads Macbeth to become ambitious, shows how the Witches as “Agents of darkness” will take good things and cause them to crumble for the sake of it

Question 4

Something wicked ___

Answer 4

Something wicked this way comes
Act 4 Scene 1
Alliteration helps shows how they’ve corrupted him
Adjective “Wicked” shows the extent of Macbeth’s said corruption
Shows how one must never trust the supernatural
Broken the great chain of being, and so is more aligned with devilish forces such as the Witches

Question 5

Double, double ___

Answer 5

Double, double toil and trouble
Act 4 Scene 1
Nursery rhyme like rhythm shows how they take delight in causing chaos
Perpetuates the Jacobean audience’s ideas that the supernatural are there to cause trouble

Trochaic tetrameter is used in all the witches’ spells to create a spell like rhythm