In the Elizabethan Era, the Great Chain of Being is extremely important in the way people are governed. God is the highest point of the chain but people are ruled by Kings who are viewed as the most important human figures from God. In these times people believe that an upset in the Chain of Being will send everything on earth and in the heavens into turmoil. This is conveyed through many pieces of literature through pathetic fallacy. Shakespeare is highly regarded for using pathetic fallacy within his tragic plays like Macbeth. Pathetic fallacy is used often within this play to imitate and emphasize the evil, death, and chaos that surrounds the characters.
Right from the start of the play the wickedness of the witch’s characters begins to …show more content…
A disrupt within the atmosphere does not only last for a minute. Until the upset is resolved with good, nature with continue to push back. Before everyone becomes aware of Duncan’s death Lennox tells Macbeth,
“The night has been unruly. Where we lay,/Our chimneys were blown down and, as they say,/Lamentings heard i' th' air, strange screams of death,/And prophesying with accents terrible/Of dire combustion and confused events/New hatched to the woeful time. The obscure bird/Clamored the livelong night. Some say the Earth/Was feverous and did shake.”
This is proof that the atmosphere of the earth is a connection to human activities. Nature presents humans with a warning of trouble about more chaos to come. However many characters at this point in the play disregard what is happening in the air around them. Yet at the same time this is essential. In the article Virtue, Natural Law, and Supernatural Solicitation it discusses how the high amount of ignorance from the characters is what later drives them to full recognition. While some wonder as to why these characters ignore their strong beliefs of nature and the chain (Hibbs) the continuous chaos from nature lets the characters open their eyes and discover how they truly feel which is ultimately against
Right from the start of the play the wickedness of the witch’s characters begins to …show more content…
A disrupt within the atmosphere does not only last for a minute. Until the upset is resolved with good, nature with continue to push back. Before everyone becomes aware of Duncan’s death Lennox tells Macbeth,
“The night has been unruly. Where we lay,/Our chimneys were blown down and, as they say,/Lamentings heard i' th' air, strange screams of death,/And prophesying with accents terrible/Of dire combustion and confused events/New hatched to the woeful time. The obscure bird/Clamored the livelong night. Some say the Earth/Was feverous and did shake.”
This is proof that the atmosphere of the earth is a connection to human activities. Nature presents humans with a warning of trouble about more chaos to come. However many characters at this point in the play disregard what is happening in the air around them. Yet at the same time this is essential. In the article Virtue, Natural Law, and Supernatural Solicitation it discusses how the high amount of ignorance from the characters is what later drives them to full recognition. While some wonder as to why these characters ignore their strong beliefs of nature and the chain (Hibbs) the continuous chaos from nature lets the characters open their eyes and discover how they truly feel which is ultimately against