HECATE
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 call’d 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,
Macbeth,William Shakespeare, act 3. 5 (2-14)
Hecate is angry that the three weird sisters did not include her on their scheme with Macbeth. She is also upset that they meddled with business that was not important. I also question weather she is actually mad because she didn’t get to show her true power or their insolence. Here we see a slightly different type of power struggle that seems to also occur in the supernatural world too.
