![]() ![]() Another ingredient in the potion is ‘witches’ mummy, maw and gulf’ which is the stomach and throat of a mummified witch. This also shows that the witches are in touch with mystical creatures that people of this time may have been scared of, making seem even more frightening. This shows that the witches are able to get ingredients that no normal human could. This potion uses many unusual ingredients, including ‘scale of dragon’. We see this when they cast a spell on the sailor and also when they make a potion at the beginning of the play. ![]() The witches were also made scary by making them cast spells on people and make potions. This description would have scared them even further. This would have made the audience think of them as demon like creatures as they were ‘not of the earth’. “Look not like th’inhabitants o’th’earth.” Make-up could be worn to make them ugly and give them warts and blemishes on the face to make them seem unclean and unhealthy. This could be achieved by wearing dark, worn out clothes and having dirty matted hair. One way was by giving the witches scary looking costumes. ![]() Shakespeare managed to make the witches seem evil by using a variety of techniques. This makes it much more difficult for a director to make them as frightening as Shakespeare intended them to be. Nowadays however, people do not believe in witches and are not as superstitious. He wrote a book on demonology, which talked about witches powers and origins.ĭue to this, it would have been very easy to make the witches seem frightening to an audience of that time. He felt that if he was God’s representative on earth, then Satan must also have one. This meant that he thought he derived his authority from God and so could not be held responsible for his actions by any authorities on earth. This fear was fuelled by the King at the time, James I, who believed strongly in the Divine right of Kings. In Shakespeare’s day, the thought of the witches scared people as they thought that they had witches living among them, casting spells on them and trying to do them harm. Consider the role of the witches and suggest how they can be made as successful for a modern audience as they would have been for a contemporary audience. The witches present modern directors with great difficulties. ![]()
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