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Granny Weatherwax, the lead witch in a coven that does not believe in having a leader, disapproves of a great many things and has strong opinions about everything. The three main characters of the witches, though they may have started with MacBeth’s Weird Sisters, steal the show with their unique personalities and idiosyncrasies.

Word play jokes prevail throughout the narrative. The guilty king thinks the trees of the forest are moving against him, and he compulsively washes his hands until they are raw and exposed. There are too many references to Shakespeare’s plays not to notice. They firmly believe that magic has no place in the ruling of nations, yet their hands are forced and they find themselves caught up in a murder mystery, assaulted with propaganda, and given the dubious task of finding a new king for the unhappy kingdom. In stark contrast to the Weird Sisters of MacBeth, Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and Magrat do not put political intrigue in motion with enigmatic predictions, but rather they are pulled along into affairs of state against their will. Meanwhile, the three witches, who firmly believe that magic should never meddle in politics, find themselves embroiled in affairs of state despite their best efforts. Not that the book purports in any way to retell Shakespeare’s classic, but rather its plot mirrors that of a murderous king and queen who inherited the throne by a bloody act, and consequently even the land itself begins to rise up against them. If Shakespeare is turning in his grave, it’s surely from convulsions of laughter. In Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters, readers visit the Discworld once again, this time for a remaking of MacBeth from the witches’ point of view. As the cauldron bubbled an eldritch voice shrieked: ‘When shall we three meet again?’įinally another voice said, in far more ordinary tones: ‘Well, I can do next Tuesday’. In the middle of this elemental storm a fire gleamed among the dripping furze bushes like the madness in a weasel’s eye.

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