... Fear, Panic, Terror -- how are they born? Where do they go -- passing away? [ 3 Gypsies ]
Throughout the play, the witches—referred to as the “weird sisters” by many of the characters—lurk like dark thoughts and unconscious temptations to evil. In part, the mischief they cause stems from their supernatural powers, but mainly it is the result of their understanding of the weaknesses of their specific interlocutors—they play upon Macbeth’s ambition like puppeteers.
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 IV.i.10–11), which separates them from the other characters, who mostly speak in blank verse. The witches’ words seem almost comical, like malevolent nursery rhymes. Despite the absurdity of their “eye of newt and toe of frog” recipes, however, they are clearly the most dangerous characters in the play, being both tremendously powerful and utterly wicked (IV.i.14). [ spark notes ]
... [W] The three Moirae were:
* Clotho (pronounced in English IPA: /ˈkloʊθoʊ]/, Greek Κλωθώ IPA: [klɔːˈtʰɔː] – "spinner") spun the thread of life from her distaff onto her spindle. Her Roman equivalent was Nona, (the 'Ninth'), who was originally a goddess called upon in the ninth month of pregnancy.
* Lachesis (/ˈlækəsɪs/, Greek Λάχεσις [ˈlɑkʰesis] – "allotter" or drawer of lots) measured the thread of life allotted to each person with her measuring rod. Her Roman equivalent was Decima (the 'Tenth').
* Atropos (/ˈætrəpɒs/, Greek Ἄτροπος [ˈɑtropos] – "inexorable" or "inevitable", literally "unturning",[4] sometimes called Aisa) was the cutter of the thread of life. She chose the manner and timing of each person's death. When she cut the thread with "her abhorrèd shears", someone on Earth died. Her Roman equivalent was Morta ('Death').
Old Woman, beggar -- Sofia [ song Irish ] Her story -- nun and virgin [Mary_Magdalene W]
What does she sing? Children songs.
Girl-Soul (Eve) -- what does she say?
Cesare's monologues? Poems?
... First time they miss each other [Cesare and Girl-soul], second -- Caligari prevents them from touch each other, third -- Cesare kidnaps the Girl (body).
LOVE theme(s) -- script.vtheatre.net/themes/love
... who? Woyzeck for Caligari:
1. People
2. Spirits
two worlds : puppets and spirits -- they dance together!
3 Gypsies and their hand puppets
Costumes without Bodies
Cesare's Double -- dummy
