Something wicked this way comes (quote)
Something wicked this way comes ( German therefore Something evil comes ) is a quote from the first scene of the fourth act of the drama " Macbeth " by William Shakespeare .
context
The scene in question takes place in a cave. Three witches gather around a cauldron with simmering witches' potion. They are expecting a guest, King Macbeth of Scotland , who seeks advice from the witches. The "evil" in the quote is Macbeth himself, who at this point in the plot has already become a traitor and murderer.
Original : | German translation ( Frank Günther ): |
Second Witch |
Second witch |
(Excerpt from "Macbeth 4th act, 1st scene" by Shakespeare)
The quote is as popular saying common in the English language. You want to express that you have a premonition or fear something bad.
reception
The idiom is very popular in literature, film, and pop culture :
- The American writer Ray Bradbury used the phrase as the title of a novel published in 1962 (German-language title: The evil comes on quiet feet ), in which the inhabitants of a quiet American small town come under the ominous influence of a magical ringmaster.
- Based on the Bradbury novel, the Disney studios shot a film with the same title in 1983 (German title: The evil comes on quiet feet ). The script was written by Ray Bradbury himself and the director was Jack Clayton . Actors were u. a. Jason Robards , Pam Grier and Jonathan Pryce .
- Agatha Christie names a novel in her Beresford series, alluding to the quote: By the Pricking of My Thumbs (German title: Loud lovely old ladies ).
- Something Wicked This Way Comes is the title of an album by the power metal band Iced Earth that was released in 1998 .
- The original quote was used in the song Double trouble in the film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban . The quote is also used as a text board in the trailer.
- The quote was used in the song Book of Thel by Bruce Dickinson .
- In the derived form Something Wicked This Way Burns , the quote is the title of a fictional film about Mr. Burns , a character in the comic series " The Simpsons ".
- A South Park episode (season 8, episode 9) is called Something Wal-Mart This Way Comes in the original English , the German episode is based on the German title of Bradbury's novel: The evil comes on Wall-Mart's feet .
- The American thrash metal band Nuclear Assault called their 1993 album Something Wicked . The title song contains the text line: "Something wicked this way comes".
- On the album Welcome to the show by the British band Barclay James Harvest from 1990 you can find the song Lady Macbeth , which contains the lyrics: "By the pricking of my thumbs / Something wicked this way comes".
- Tupac Shakur recorded the track "Something wicked this way comes" in his music album " 2Pacalypse Now ". The same did the metal bands Wednesday 13 on "Calling All Corpses" and Lordi on " To Beast or Not to Beast ".
- The Herbaliser , a British band, released the album Something Wicked This Way Comes in 2002 .
- Woods of Birnam released the title Something Wicked This Way Comes on their album Searching for William in 2017 .
supporting documents
- ^ William Shakespeare: Macbeth . Bilingual edition. 10th edition. dtv , Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-423-12484-3 , p. 123 ff . (English: Macbeth . London / New York 1984. Translated by Frank Günther ).