Knowledge checks

Question 1

How do the witches speak

Answer 1

trochaic tetrameter in scene 1 act 1

Question 2

trochaic tetrameter

Answer 2

Trochaic meaning Stress occurs on the first syllable on each pair
and
tetrameter meaning there are 7 syllables

Question 3

What suggests the witches have no power in Act 1 scene 1 (include quote)

Answer 3

Quote “When the hurlyburly’s done,
when the battles lost and won”

This is trochaic tetrameter being used which gives a childish rhythm and does not feel like a super natural incantation.

Imagery is used for the familiars are animals. Children stories are full of animals.

Perhaps the belief in the supernatural is a childish belief. Shakespeare could not explicitly say this due to James the First being passionately believing in witches ect. But shakespare could be ambiguous.

Question 4

when characters have a trochaic stress on the first syllables of the two indicates what

Answer 4

It signals to the audience that this character is probably doing something wicked

Question 5

“Fair is foul and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air”

Answer 5

There are fricatives, the repetition of the “F sound”. When a we say the fricative “F” we bare our teeth this is an evolutionary mechanism in order to be threatening .