Sorcery In Macbeth

Lastly the Scottish witches the antagonists from the play are portrayed as evil witches who are slaves to the devil. Throughout the play, the witches are referred to as the “weird sisters” by many of the characters lurk like dark thoughts and unconscious temptations to evil. In part, the mischief they cause stems from their supernatural powers, but mainly it is the result of their understanding of the weaknesses of their specific interlocutors they play upon Macbeth’s ambition like puppeteers.(Sparknotes) In addition People believe witches are”Woman who has sold her soul to a devil who thereafter attends her as her “Master” who carries her about in the air and incites her to evil designs. every witch has her imp or familiar spirits “ wandering …show more content…
”(IV,i,L80). Regarding this quote Macbeth ask the witches to reveal the rest of the prophecy and then the witches to answer him they use the apparitions to tell macbeth that no one should harm him no matter what. In addition another example the witches are using Necromancy and Sorcery is when they are doing a potion “ Fillet of a fenny snake,In the cauldron boil and bake. Eye of newt and toe of frog,Wool of bat and tongue of dog,Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,Lizard’s leg and owlet’s wing,For a charm of powerful trouble,Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.”(IV,i,L15). the witches are preparing to cast a spell. These particulate examples are can also connect to the theme of appearance and reality because, the appearance is that the witches are able to travel through air without their devils in movies and in plays however the reality is that these witches “Cannot hover through through the air except as their devils carry them. They cannot vanish in the air, but the devil who carry them can thicken and obscure so the air that is next about them by contracting…”(Sorcery In Macbeth page