Misinterpreted In Macbeth, Shakespeare uses characters who exhibit supernatural powers. These witches add mystery and uncertainty to the lives of other characters. The witches also determine how the play evolves by using their spells, charms, and prophecies to meddle in Macbeth's life. In the Shakespearean era, figures of the supernatural and the mystical were feared or awed, but modern society views these forces in a different light. At the very beginning, Act 1/ Scene 1, the witches …
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…agents of fate, whose prophecies are only reports of the inevitable. However, a modern audience has characterized them as narrator who just help the play progress and do not hold such an important role. Their characters have become more comical over time than deep and powerful. Regardless of these changes, Macbeth still hold the position of a great play and its story is not lost on the slight shift of interpretation of a modern society.