FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Macbeth
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Banquo
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Ross
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Witches
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Detailed explanation-1: -Third Witch: There to meet with Macbeth. Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air.
Detailed explanation-2: -In thunder, lightning, or in rain? / When the hurly-burly’s done, When the battle’s lost and won. / That will be ere the set of sun. / Where the place? Upon the heath. / There to meet with Macbeth.” “Fair is foul, and foul is fair: / Hover through the fog and filthy air.” “All hail, Macbeth!
Detailed explanation-3: -Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Detailed explanation-4: -’ The witches are saying that what is fair to man is foul to the witches, but what men may see as foul, the witches see as fair. Put simply, the witches are seen as evil, but they see themselves as good. This paradox also tells the audience that appearances can be deceiving, a main theme in the play.
Detailed explanation-5: -"Fair is foul, and foul is fair: / Hover through the fog and filthy air” (1.1. 11-12), chant the Weird Sisters as they go to wait for the battle to be over so they can deliver their seductive prophesies to Macbeth.