The theme of nature acting strangely is one of the most important themes found in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Shakespeare often displays the character’s motives through nature acting abnormally. He tends to disguise prophecies using the unnatural. He also uses subliminal metaphors to describe events that are currently happening in the play. Shakespeare uses the unnatural to display the character’s motives, prophecy the fate of characters, and allude towards what is occurring in the play. In Act 1 scene 1 of the play the theme of the unnatural is displayed through the thunder and the witches. The lightning during Act 1 represents the evil motives that the witches possess (1.1.1-2). Another example occurs in Act 1 but, during scene 5 when Lady Macbeth
