As Victor Chan states in The plays of Shakespeare, A thematic guide “The acts of humankind resound through the heavens.”(259). In the play The tragedy of Macbeth written by William Shakespeare, the actions of the characters and even the animals make natural order seem unreal and nonexistent like when Duncan’s horses ate each other in act II, scene 4. Shakespeare uses the motif of Nature all throughout the play to convey the eerie atmosphere and negative actions of the people, especially Macbeth. In the play, natures order can be scrambled due to the actions of humans.
Shakespeare's use of nature throughout the play not only sets the mood but it also shows how human actions can discombobulate the natural order of life. The nature motif is brought up early in the play as the 3 witches first enter on a set of thunder and rain. The dark setting of the witches can be associated with the uprising Macbeth is planning against Duncan, as if the dark nature was to foreshadow Macbeth dark intentions to kill Duncan. Macbeth is the main character whose actions affect nature the most. The night Macbeth made the
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Also his wife led to his downfall, as Lady Macbeth convinced him to do such evil things and pushed him to do more as time when on. Like said in a Southern Utah University paper written by Elaine Pilkington “He is compelled by his own ambition and his wife’s ruthlessness.”(Pilkington). With not only the changes of Macbeth nature throughout the book, the physical nature in the real world in Scotland, where the play is taken place, is changing and not in a good way. The days are darker and the animals are acting strange all just because of one man's actions, the decision of killing someone. Macbeth is responsible for not only one person's death but multiple people and even a