Macbeth Supernatural

The supernatural is defined as manifestations that are beyond scientific understanding. If this is so, there are many supernatural elements in Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare. In Macbeth, the supernatural is a vital part of the structure of the framework. It provides a stimulant for action, an insight into the character, and augments the impact of many key scenes. His contemporaries believed in the supernatural very strongly and a majority of them were fearful of it, including King James I. Shakespeare displays the natural as good and the unnatural/supernatural as evil to set a dark mood. He included supernatural parts, unnatural events in nature, and unnatural elements in the real world. In Macbeth, the supernatural appears in various forms, including three witches, a floating dagger, ghosts, and prophetic apparitions. The three witches set an underlying tone of evil and darkness throughout
The witches predicted it as well, “Fair is foul, and foul is fair / Hover through the fog and filthy air.”(Shakespeare 1.1.12-13). In this quote they are basically saying that right is wrong and wrong is right; right is natural, wrong is unnatural. It explains the dark, stormy, and reckless night the witches conjured. It is representative of “the battle” between the king’s forces and the ones who oppose him. Another unnatural element is the dark sky covering the ‘travelling lamp.’ This serves as an allusion to the king’s murder. In Macbeth, light represents life, God, and good and dark is evil, bad, and death. In addition to the weather being disrupted, the natural order of animals was discombobulated as well. The falcon being killed by an owl was also unnatural as well as Duncan’s horses killing each other. These unnatural events all lead to the conclusion that the real world and the supernatural worlds are merging together to create one