Supernatural In Macbeth
The Supernatural in Macbeth Throughout Shakespeare’s play “Macbeth” there exists confusion to what is real and what’s supernatural, and mostly it is Macbeth who is confronted with these confusions because of the crime that he committed. Some of these supernatural effects include the witches, Banquo’s ghost, and even the voices that Macbeth keeps hearing in his head, or otherwise we can call it his “conscious voice” that keeps reminding, and blaming him of the king’s murder. These supernatural effects motivate Macbeth’s action towards the play, turning the whole play into a tragedy. The main and most important supernatural effect that the whole play revolves around is the appearance of the witches, or the “weird sister”. ... Macbeth and Banquo meet them, and they knew that they were witches at that time because Banquo said “That not look like the inhabitants of the earth” (Act I, Scene 3, Line 41). It is odd that Banquo and Macbeth went and talked to them because at that time people who are seen with witches can be easily convicted of dealing with witchcraft. The witches told both Macbeth and Banquo unbelievable prophecies “All hail, Macbeth that shalt be king here after” (Act 1, scene3, and line50). That prophecy made Macbeth think a lot about it. ... We can see how Macbeth was really believing what the witches said because he sent his wife a letter, telling her about the unbelievable news “While I stood rapt in wonder of it, came missives, from the king, who all-hailed me ‘Thane of Cawdor’, by which title, I before these weird sister saluted me, and referred to me to the coming on of time, with,’hail, king that shalt be! ... In Act II, before Macbeth killed Duncan, he is really hesitated about the murder that he is going to commit.