Weather & Nature
MacBeth by William Shakespeare
Act I, Scene I, Page 1
"When shall we meet again. In thunder, lightning, or in rain"
- The witches will meet in dark, evil, & plagued times
- Thunder, lightning, & rain are all dangerous
- Foreshawdow something bad will happen
Act II, Scene III, page 25
"Our chimneys were blown down ... strange screams of death"
- After Duncan died, lots of bad things started happening, like chimneys blowing over
- As if nature is trying to tell everybody that Duncan was murdered
- Nature doesn't approve of Duncan's death
Act V, Scene IV, Page 75
"Let every soldier hew him down a bough ... we shadow the numbers to our host"
- Malcolm & Macduff disquise army
- Hold tree branches in front of them
- MacBeth doesn't know how many troops there are
- Witches prophecy - the forest is marching
Shakespeare's message about weather/nature
- I believe that Shakespeare's message about weather/nature is very effective
- He used it to foreshadow events that were going to happen
- He told you that the witches will come back in a plagued time
- Chimneys blowing over said something bad happened
- Soldiers hiding behind the tree brances showed the prophocy came true
- Weather and nature had a huge impact on the outcome of thr play