Natural and Supernatural

• In Shakespeare’s time the powers of evil and the supernatural were thought to be absolutely real
• King James 1st believed heavily in the supernatural
• The witches prediction cause Macbeth to carry out evil deeds
• Witches appearance with the thunderstorm sets the tone of what is to happen
• Nature

  Birnam wood was moving and almost like it had come alive

  Thunderstorms at the start of the play and during Duncan’s Murder