Macbeth
What is the repeated couplet in the witches dialogue and What point or ideas does the couplet express?
Act 4 sc 1 lines 1-21
Act 4 sc 1 lines 1-21
The famous lines, "Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble" provide much of the power of this first scene. The couplet articulates the evil of the witches and really identifies them as the servants of darkness.