Something Wicked This Way Comes (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ray Bradbury
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Supernatural, Midwest, 1920’s, 1930’s, Good and evil, Small-town life, Youth, Circuses or carnivals, Boys, Aging, Illinois, Tattoos
- Locales: Green Town, IL
“By the pricking of my thumbs,! something wicked this way comes.” In William Shakespeare's Macbeth (c. 1605), the witches speak these lines as Macbeth approaches for his second meeting with them. He has come because he has found his ill-gotten power empty and insecure. The witches speak out of sympathy for the evil they have cultivated in him. When Charles Holloway quotes these lines in Something Wicked This Way Comes, he is also speaking of the sympathy of the evil that lurks always in the hearts of the good for the greater evil in the hearts of those who have given...
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