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Angiee
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These questions are about the Act 1 scene 1-7 I do not get any of this can someone please help mee. thank you
2. Why would Shakespeare later on include a scene where the first witch talks about a sailor's wife who refuses to share her chestnuts that she is eating so the witch is going to take it out on her sailor husband. "I will drain him dry as hay/ Sleep neither night nor day/Weary sev'nnights nine times nine/Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine." This doesn't have anything do to with Macbeth directly.
3. Macbeth and Banquo seem more intrigued by the witches than afraid of them: "Stay you imperfect speakers and tell me more!"/
...I know I am the Thane of Glamis/But how of Cawdor?/...Say from whence you owe this strange intelligence/or why upon this blasted heath you stop our way/With such prophetic greeting?/
Speak, I charge you." The witches then disappear before their very eyes. Why are they not terribly afraid of their encounter with the witches?
2. Why would Shakespeare later on include a scene where the first witch talks about a sailor's wife who refuses to share her chestnuts that she is eating so the witch is going to take it out on her sailor husband. "I will drain him dry as hay/ Sleep neither night nor day/Weary sev'nnights nine times nine/Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine." This doesn't have anything do to with Macbeth directly.
3. Macbeth and Banquo seem more intrigued by the witches than afraid of them: "Stay you imperfect speakers and tell me more!"/
...I know I am the Thane of Glamis/But how of Cawdor?/...Say from whence you owe this strange intelligence/or why upon this blasted heath you stop our way/With such prophetic greeting?/
Speak, I charge you." The witches then disappear before their very eyes. Why are they not terribly afraid of their encounter with the witches?