Macbeth

Macbeth In MacBeth, William Shakespeare sets the mood of the entire play with extraordinary occurrences in the natural world. They signify the dark, cold and demented manner of MacBeth’s killing spree. From the thunder and lightning that accompany the three witches’ appearances to the terrible storms that follow the murders of King Duncan and Banquo. The supernatural occurrences reflect a break in the Chain of Being, the corruption in the moral and political orders that are considered unimaginable. Therefore, the supernatural occurrences in the natural world order are most severe and unsettling when that Chain of Being is broken. The three witches are an unnatural phenomenon and are directly related to the supernatural occurrences, this reflects their link to an unsettled and chaotic natural world. The sense of violence and foreboding that is evoked by the unnatural imagines create an aura of darkness, deception, and horror seen throughout MacBeth. The darkness creates the image of horror with the deaths’ of King Duncan and Banquo at night or in darkness, and the second meeting with the three witches in a dark place shows the horror yet to come. The unnatural scenes in MacBeth are central macbeth, witches, macbeth’s, banquo, three, unnatural, duncan, darkness, scene, natural, dark, thunder, killing, world, thane, scotland, says, play, occurrences, lightning, horror, future, first, come, though, supernatural, storm, order, murder, light, king, fall, country, chaos, chain