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Essay On Shakespeare's Use Of Witches In Macbeth

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The play-wright explores Witches as outcast and interloper as Shakespeare uses simile to describe them as extraordinary. This is demonstrated in the extract “They not look like the inhabitants o’th earth”. The quote implies the witches as not part of this world, perhaps because of the way they look, all frightening and creepy. Firstly the description displays witches as not part of creator’s creation as Banquo describes them using plural noun ‘inhabitants’ to portray them as dweller and unearthly persons/animals. Secondly, this word is usually linked to wickedness and a sense of darkness, which could imply witches as truly agents of Satan and not part of earth but part of Hell/demon’s world. Furthermore, it also represent the idea of Banquo

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