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Unnatural happenings in Macbeth
The sun is obscured, owls kill falcons, and Duncans horses eat each other. ... Shakespeare uses symbolic language that describes the natural order of the food chain destroyed; it is also made descriptive and bold showing the unnatural happenings.
In Act 2, scene 2, Lady Macbeth waits anxiously for Macbeth to return from killing Duncan, the King of Scotland. When Macbeth enters the scene, Lady Macbeth says that she ¡§heard the owl scream and the crickets cry¡¨. This line echoes back to the previous line made by Lady Macbeth in the same scene -- "It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman, which gives the sternst good-night." The step that Macbeth is leaping over goes against the rules of nature, and when this happens, animals and weather erupt. ... Excited that now he has Macbeth under his wing because he just committed the heinous act of killing someone. ... 5-7)
In Act 2 Scene 4 Ross and an Old Man talk exchange accounts of the disturbed night and the recent unnatural happenings that mirror Duncans murder.
Approximate Word count = 776
Approximate Pages = 3.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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