Examples Of Villains In Macbeth

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What do you consider a typical villain to be? The most famous villains are usually shown to be truly evil, and do whatever it takes to get what they want without feeling any remorse. Some of the most iconic villains show these traits such as The Joker, Jason, and Loki. The play of Macbeth is no exception in having a true villain. In the play Macbeth written by William Shakespeare the main character Macbeth is a noble and respectful Thane with his dominant wife Lady Macbeth, until he meets the characters known as The Witches. The Witches are known as the agents of darkness, the fate sisters, and the wyrd sisters. They are given all of these names, because they are strange, they are pure evil, and they tell people their fates. The Witches give …show more content…
For example The Witches speak of what they have done to a sailor, because of what the sailor’s wife had done, “But in a thither sail I’ll give thee a wind Thou ‘rt kind I’ll give thee another and I another … I’ll drain him as dry as hay.” (I.3.7-10, 17). This illustrates how evil The Witches are, because they sarcastically talk about how generous they are in killing the sailor. They kill the sailor by setting him sail without ever being able to come back. They state, ‘Thou ‘rt kind’ showing how jokingly they take leaving a man stranded in the middle of nowhere. Also the fact that they are leaving an innocent man out to die out of anger shows how evil they are. Not only that, but The Witches killed the man just for his wife insulting the head witch this shows how dangerous The Witches are, and how unpredictable they can be. The difference between the evil actions behind The Witches, Macbeth, and Lady Macbeth show how much more evil The Witches are. As The Witches do evil things for their own amusement, while Macbeth and Lady Macbeth do it for some gain in the play. This is a prime example, because The Witches are easily angered by the sailor’s wife and killed him, because they felt like it. Would Macbeth or Lady Macbeth have killed the sailor for their own amusement? The Witches also set the entire play into motion as they plan on and succeed in making Macbeth want to become king, leading him into killing innocent people. They tell him of his prophecies and tell him of his coming of Thane making him believe that him becoming king would also be a great thing, since there was no catch when he became Thane. When catch is stated that means having to kill the current king which he did not have to do when he was becoming Thane. This also shows how evil The Witches are, because they set the course for so many

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