"MACBETH" The Weird Sisters
Submitted by on January 1, 2000
Category: Book Reports
Words: 570 | Pages: 3
Views: 544
Popularity Rank: 181
Report this Essay
JOIN OR LOGIN TO VIEW THE ENTIRE ESSAY. IT'S FREE!
"You should be women,/And yet your beards forbid me to interpret/That you are so."
(Act 1, scene 3, lines 47-49) The three weird sisters of the story "MACBETH" by William
Shakespeare are the turning point in Macbeth's world.The use unnatural, supernatura
and evil elements to convince Macbeth that he has to become king. The evil sisters,
which are not of his world, seem to turn it completely upside-down.
The witches have no problem speaking of death and killing, "Where hast thou been, sister?/
Killing swine."(act 1, scene 3, lines 1-2) They find enjoyment in death. Their evilness really
develops when they describe the punishment for the fat woman who wouldn't share her
chestnuts, "I'll drain him dry as hay./ Sleep shall neither night nor
day..."(act 1, scene 3, lines 19-20) Those lines are brutal...