Along with the appearance of the voodoo doll, the witches are also present through their voices, fog, and darkness. They are not often seen, but they are heard speaking to Macbeth. After his frightening encounter with Banquo’s ghost, Macbeth runs out into the storm to find the witches. They do not appear visually to the audience, but represented “by an ear-piercing voice-over from the off-field, they seem to spring up only in his disturbed mind, as he wrestles, Lear-like, on what looks like a desolate heath or an unrealistic sound stage, with lightning striking furiously around him” (Hachuel 5). The witches appear only though their voices and the dreary landscape. They are also present at Macbeth’s death. After Macduff announces that he “was from his mother’s womb / untimely ripped,” the camera frames Macbeth and Macduff between the backs of the witches’ heads (5.10.15-16). If not for their voices, the audience would likely overlook the fact that the witches’ heads are seen. However, the voodoo doll is clearly beheaded as Macbeth himself is struck down by Macduff. The witches’ presence during this scene and the voodoo dolls beheading both suggest that the witches are responsible for Macbeth’s death as well as his
Along with the appearance of the voodoo doll, the witches are also present through their voices, fog, and darkness. They are not often seen, but they are heard speaking to Macbeth. After his frightening encounter with Banquo’s ghost, Macbeth runs out into the storm to find the witches. They do not appear visually to the audience, but represented “by an ear-piercing voice-over from the off-field, they seem to spring up only in his disturbed mind, as he wrestles, Lear-like, on what looks like a desolate heath or an unrealistic sound stage, with lightning striking furiously around him” (Hachuel 5). The witches appear only though their voices and the dreary landscape. They are also present at Macbeth’s death. After Macduff announces that he “was from his mother’s womb / untimely ripped,” the camera frames Macbeth and Macduff between the backs of the witches’ heads (5.10.15-16). If not for their voices, the audience would likely overlook the fact that the witches’ heads are seen. However, the voodoo doll is clearly beheaded as Macbeth himself is struck down by Macduff. The witches’ presence during this scene and the voodoo dolls beheading both suggest that the witches are responsible for Macbeth’s death as well as his