Macbeth, or Menopause, Matriarchy, and Reproductive Horror

Macbeth opens with three witches scheming together. Sometimes speaking discrete lines, sometimes sharing lines, and sometimes speaking in unison, they form a kind of dark, witchy trinity. Like the Holy Trinity, in which each Person of God can act either on its own or in perfect concert with the other two, these witches have a strange and unintuitive nat…