Running Journal: Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 1)
Thunder and lightning; enter three Witches:
In the play as a whole, people are tossed about by forces that they cannot control, and so it is in the opening scene. The witches, blown by the storms of nature and war, swirl in, then out. As soon as we see them, they are on their way out again, and the first one is asking:
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