Macbeth

In different periods of time, the lives of humans and nature were thought to have a connection, and this is emphasized in William Shakespeare’s play MacBeth. In this play, unnatural events in nature foreshadow bad or unnatural occurrences in the lives of humans. Through out the play, Shakespeare continuously proves this point. When Ross said "As sparrows eagles or the hare the lion" (I.ii.35), it proves this theory. Common knowledge says that sparrows …

…horses certainly do not eat each other. All of these unnatural events in nature led to some type of evil happening in the lives of humans. The people of Shakespeare’s time period believed that an unnatural event was a punishment for something they did, or told of things to come and this is very evident in Macbeth. The most obvious unnatural occurrences seemed to foreshadow all the unusual happening in the lives of humans.