Macbeth

The wildness of Nature may seem to be uncontrolled but behind every action there is a   reason and sometimes a witch. The witches of Macbeth in the ominous order of three hold unnatural power to predict and affect the future. In this very same play the King Duncan, favored by nature itself, is killed by a man tiring to obtain the Scottish throne and in the process sending the natural order on its head. As the villainous protagonist rises from Thane of Glamis, to the Thane Cawdor, to King, there is a growing punishment for sending nature out of order. The fall of the protagonist is aided by his unnatural attempt to hold such a high body politic while having such a low body natural. As a play written in King James’s reign, “Macbeth”, was ensured to have followed the natural laws that guided Jacobean conventional thought. Those natural laws included the Divine Right of Kings, which proclaimed that the king was a divinely selected emissary of God.   Macbeth, the protagonist, is character that receives foreboding and beguiling prophecies from three Apparitions summoned by witches in an attempt to lure him into a state of dangerous confidence. In Shakespeare’s tragic play “Macbeth” the Prophecies given to Macbeth are an influential part of the story and their ironic nature further the presence of the theme nature out of order in the play.
An armed head enlightens the reader to both the future and a naturally just ending. In Act 4, the witches grace Macbeth with an apparition, in the form of an armed head. The First Apparition says "Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff. Beware the Thane of Fife. " (IV, i, 71-73). Through this prophecy Macbeth had learned information that he had agreed with and already known. He was already suspicions of the actions of Macduff because his absence at a dinner party. He is put on edge with this statement but in addition made more curious and open to manipulation. The witches’ main goal in the other prophecies is to delude Macbeth while...