2. Personal Details
Prepared by Payal Bambhaniya
Roll no. 18
Sem :- 1 ( M.A. )
Paper No. :- 101
Paper Name :- Literature of the Elizabethan and Restoration
period
Enrollment No. :- 4069206420220002
Batch :- 2022 – 2024
Submitted to :- Department of English, M.K.B.U.
3. About Author
• William Shakespeare was an English Poet, Dramatist
and Actor.
• He is known as a great dramatist.
• Notable works:-
1. Hamlet
2. King Lear
3. Julius Caesar
4. Macbeth
5. Romeo and Juliet
4. 4
SUPERNATURAL BELIEF AND POWER IN SHAKESPEARE’S TIME
❖ In shakespeare’s time most of the people
believed in witches, evil spirits and magic.
❖ Shakespeare used characters such as the
witches to bring dark magic and suspence.
❖ Shakespeare uses this appearance of the
witches to emphasise their wickedness.
5. Introduction of Macbeth
• Macbeth:- Novel
• Full Title:- The Tragedy of
Macbeth
• It is a story of a brave
Scottish general named
Macbeth receives a
prophecy From a trio of
witches that one day he will
become king of Scotland.
6. Witches in Macbeth
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1. The Witches appearance at the start of the
play in the middle of a thunderstorm.
2. The Witches contribute to Macbeth’s
downfall by influencing his ambitious nature
and offering him misleading prophecies.
3. By telling Macbeth that he will become the
future kind of Scotland, the Witches
stimulate his ambition.
4. Once Macbeth kills the king, he damns his
soul and transforms into a bloodthirsty
Tyrant.
7. The effects of the witches on character MACBETH.
❖ In the play of 'Macbeth' by William Shakespeare the witches have
an important effect on Macbeth, the characters, the plot, the theme
and the audience. They help construct the play and without them it
would have been a totally different story line. The three weird
sisters influence Macbeth in his acts, they effect characters lives,
orientate the plot, they are related to most of the themes and
appeal the audience's attention.
❖ The witches have a strong effect on Macbeth's character; they
highly influence him in his accomplishments and awake his
ambitions. They give Macbeth a false sense of security with their
apparitions of truths. Instead they prove to be harmful for Macbeth
who takes too much comfort and confidence in his interpretation of
the truths. They are the ones who plant the actual idea of killing
Duncan into Macbeth's mind.(Shakespeare)
