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By William Shakespeare. (from Macbeth) Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the caldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and howlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble,
Detailed explanatory notes for the speeches of the Weird Sisters (Three Witches) in Macbeth.
‘Double, Double Toil and Trouble’ is a sensational song sung by the three witches in the play, ‘Macbeth’ by William Shakespeare. It foretells Macbeth’s state of mind before he enters into the plot. At first reading, this song arouses a sense of fear and disturbance in the mind.
'Double double toil and trouble/Fire burn and cauldron bubble' is a rhyming couplet from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, chanted by the supernatural three witches.
29 Οκτ 2008 · The Three Witches Spell from Shakespeare’s Macbeth is great to read or listen to for Halloween. Some of the lines in this speech are offensive to our twenty-first century ears, and I hesitated to print it here, on a site with significant family traffic.
The witches’ beards, bizarre potions, and rhymed speech make them seem slightly ridiculous, like caricatures of the supernatural. Shakespeare has them speak in rhyming couplets throughout (their most famous line is probably “Double, double, toil and trouble, / Fire burn and cauldron bubble” in 4.1.10–11), which separates them from the ...
The Rule of Three is a pagan belief – it states that whatever energy witches put into the world will be returned to them three times. In Macbeth, the witches seem to be in a group of three, and speak in threes, to strengthen their power.
