Witch Scenes In Macbeth Essay

The renowned play writer William Shakespeare lived in the late 16th and early 17th century. Shakespeare wrote a credited 37 plays and 154 sonnets during his life time. Shakespeare wrote plays that incorporated comedies, history, character tragedies and romance. One of Shakespeare’s prominent tragic plays Macbeth has much speculation over four witch scenes and two songs that are thought to be plagiarized. The four witch scenes in Macbeth should be legal and ethically performed within the play. First, all four witch scenes are vital to form the tragic character flaw of the play and the role of the witches preform the inciting event that leads to the character Macbeth's destruction. The three weird sisters or three fates manipulate Macbeth onto his path of downhill destruction by prophesying “All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis! All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!” (1.3.50). After being told their omens, Macbeth later shortly realizes that their second omen of him becoming thane of Cawdor has come

During the time, Shakespeare wrote Macbeth there was no such rules about copy right infringement laws. According to Damnable Practices by Sarah William's “Ballads were sold outside London's theaters”. It is known that writers would often trade and use scenes from other writers plays and works. Macbeth and The Witch by Thomas Middleton is an example of possible plagiarism among the witch scenes and the two-incorporated song's “come away”, “cauldron bubble”. Many scholars can’t decide if Middleton copy righted from Shakespeare or Shakespeare later adopted the scenes and songs from Middleton’s play. Overall, there is no definitive proof that if or if not the witch scenes and songs are original but it is well evident that the witch scenes must be incorporated into the play for