Examples Of Unnatural In Macbeth

All things in the world have a natural order to them. That natural order may be different from person to person. This brings about the unnatural—things that may seem odd to the outside viewer. Someone’s perspective can be shifted by the unnatural, or you never experience it. Things like milk before cereal seem unnatural for some, while others may see it as normal. In the end, some things are always unnatural to everyone. For example, owls eating hawks or floating daggers. The unnatural can have unforeseen consequences for the political and natural worlds. Macbeth is a play written by Shakespeare that has a soldier find an unnatural person before them, which causes them to fall into a rabbit hole and change what they may find to be natural and

Thus, things start becoming more and more Unnatural throughout Act 4. Shakespeare starts to have the Unnatural come to haunt Macbeth. In the text, it states, "when the brains were out, the man would die... but now they rise again"(lines 80-81). Shakespeare creates an unnatural theme for Macbeth with him seeing the ghost of Banquo, and so he fears for the worst that his enemies may rise back out to attack him. Even if that sounds crazy, he is believing it. Shakespeare starts to use Macbeth for the Unnatural with his statements. Macbeth states, "Stones have been known to move and trees to speak;"(line 125). Shakespeare using Macbeth to say things unnaturally is starting to show his mind and how all the natural things are being limited, and the unnatural is starting to become natural to Macbeth. Shakespeare has Macbeth go out to meet the witches, and so he talks to their boss, Fate. After Macbeth tries to get more answers, the first witch states, "He will not be commanded: here’s another, more potent than the first"(lines 75-76). Shakespeare is starting to show how Macbeth’s whole worldview is being altered by all the unnatural things going on during his reign and after the battle. The audience sees how being close to and in contact with something different than your nature causes you to start to see that strangeness as the new nature. With Macbeth confidently trying to command fate, it shows that he sees himself as more powerful and different than before. Shakespeare is starting to show how the natural world and the unnatural world collide with each other once too much of one is brought into the equation with