Macbeth
Works of literature that attract people usually contain some wild thinking. Henry David Thoreau, in his essay "Walking," makes this assessment of literature: "In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Dullness is but another name for tameness. It is the uncivilized free and wild thinking in Hamlet and The Iliad, in all scriptures and mythologies, not learned in schools, that delights us." In the play "Macbeth," Shakespeare uses "uncivilized free and wild thinking" in order to make the storyline interesting and entertaining.
The play starts out immediately with and example of this. Three witches are the first characters that appear on stage. They are conversing of when they will meet again to discuss some important information that will occur later in the story. At the end of this first scene, the three witches vanish into the wind.
Soon after, Macbeth and his wife are discussing how they can murder the current king so that Macbeth will become king. This is......
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