![]() ![]() So witherd, and so wild in their attire? (1.3).Įven when unattended by any human witnesses, when supporting the dialogue merely among themselves, Shakespeare has placed in the mouths of these agents imagery and diction of a cast so peculiar and mysterious as to render them objects of alarm and fear, emotions incompatible with any tendency towards the ludicrous. What are these, exclaims the astonished Banquo,. ![]() In the very first appearance, indeed, of the Weird Sisters to Macbeth and Banquo on the blasted heath, we discern beings of a more awful and spiritualized character than belonged to the vulgar herd of witches. The following analysis of Shakespeare's Weird Sisters is an excerpt from the book, Shakespeare and his Times, by Nathan Drake: They appear first in Act 1, Scene 1, and they make their prophecy known to Macbeth and Banquo in 1.3. ![]() Shakespeare's Three Witches, or the Three Weird Sisters, are characters in Macbeth, answering to the fates of mythology. Shakespeare's Weird Sisters and the Language of Hell The Weird Sisters in Shakespeare's Macbeth ![]()
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