MACBETH: HERE WE COME ("INTRODUCTION")

• Great chain of being:
• Elizabethan world order and great chain of being is a big part of the plots of the literary works.
• At the time, people were really searching for something that made sense.
• Shakespeare had to please his audience: a very fine line for his work.
• Fair is foul and foul is fair.
• The devil was very real for the people at the time.
• Characters of witches viewed as entrapments; witches were assumed yo have fairly real powers.
• Was loosely based on factual, real life event.
• "Come what come may,
  Time and the hour runs through the roughest day."