Hecate

__Hecate__
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Hecate is the ruler of the three witches. She first appears in Act 3, Scene 5 and she demands to know why she has been excluded from the previous witch meetings. Act 3, Scene 5 is very controversial, as it is almost universally believed that Shakespeare did not actually write it. Instead, it was created to give a featured role to the actor playing the role of Hecate. It may also have been inserted to appease the audience, which had an obsession with dark magic during that time period. Another explanation is that Hecate was a large, interesting part placed into the story to attract famous actresses of the time who would be interested in the impressive and grandiose role.

//Have I not reason, beldams as you are, Saucy and overbold? How did you dare To trade and traffic with Macbeth In riddles and affairs of death; And I, the mistress of your charms, The close contriver of all harms, Was never called to bear my part Or show the glory of our art? And, which is worse, all you have done Hath been but for a wayward son, Spiteful and wrathful, who, as others do, Loves for his own ends, not for you. But make amends now: get you gone And at the pit of Acheron Meet me i' th' morning. Thither he Will come to know his destiny. Your vessels and your spells provide, Your charms and everything beside. I am for th' air. This night I'll spend Unto a dismal and a fatal end. Great business must be wrought ere noon. Upon the corner of the moon There hangs a vap'rous drop profound; I'll catch it ere it come to ground: And that, distilled by magic sleights, Shall raise such artificial sprites As by the strength of their illusion Shall draw him on to his confusion. He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace, and fear: And you all know security Is mortals' chiefest enemy. [Music, and a song.] Hark! I am called. My little spirit, see, Sits in a foggy cloud and stays for me.//
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