Shakespeare portrays the Elizabethan and Jacobean time period when he depicts the rigid social hierarchy. Essentially people during this time period believed in the divine right of kings. The divine right of kings is a political and religious belief that kings get their authority from god and is no earthly authority. Jacobeans certainly believed the universe was ordered and planned out by god, from which it follows that rebellion and ambition is the worst of crimes. Shakespeare demonstrates a defiance of gods will in Act two Scene three when Macduff goes to the king’s bedchamber to awake him only to find the king has been murdered. Macduff announces to Lennox that Duncan has been murdered, “most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope; the Lord’s
