As I read up on Macbeth (and I'll be honest, Sparknotes to help decipher some of this language I still don't fully understand) the biggest thing I feel is an impending sense of doom throughout the entire play. Since you're given the plot in the beginning, it feels less like you're watching this happen in real time, instead it feels like you are watching an event play back while these witches narrate it. The way they know what will happen and talk about it is very eerie and surreal. It's almost like cliches in horror movies - you know as soon as she looks into that mirror, or turns around that corner, something will happen. And knowing the director, (or playwright), also helps get a familiar but distant sense of what will happen. Overall, the feeling of this higher power / impending doom feeling really adds to the narrative of the story. I would enjoy it more if it was more accessible though.
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