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In Macbeth there are witches, back in the times of Shakespeare there was a great fear for the unexplainable and it was common to associate it with witches. There used to be a great influence from the king and the church back then. The church controlled the people with fear, fear of spending eternity in hell. This is why people gave so much to the church and the king was associated with god also to promote this same principle of respect and to keep anybody from rebelling. Witches were against god and promoted evil according to the king this is why also traitors and traitors and enemies were associated with wizards and evil.
Macbeth is told he will be king by evil “that shalt be king hereafter!” (pg.17). Can a man trust something strange, which is always persecuted. He was to question himself in my opinion because he had been told all his life that the sources or evil only deserve death. The witches have no option but to live in exile and never be accepted to the society forcing them to hide from it, this could be future for Macbeth if he kills Malcolm since it is not assured for him to be king.
As though this book is complicated we must place ourselves in the historical context. We must understand how the system worked in order for him to become king and why thing in this book are done in a certain way.