![]() The witches are exiles from that violent order, inhabiting their own sisterly community on its shadowy borderlands, refusing all truck with its tribal bickerings and military honours. It is they who, by releasing ambitious thoughts in Macbeth, expose a reverence for hierarchical social order for what it is, as the pious self-deception of a society based on routine oppression and incessant warfare. ![]() The witches are the heroines of the piece, however little the play itself recognizes the fact, and however much the critics may have set out to defame them. ![]() "The most fertile force in the play" To any unprejudiced reader - which would seem to exclude Shakespeare himself, his contemporary audience, and almost all literary critics - it is surely clear that positive value in Macbeth lies with the three witches. ![]()
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