The Natural World and Evil in Macbeth
The Natural World and Evil in Macbeth When Macbeth ascended the Scottish throne, the monarchy was not the only thing that was severely affected by the evil of his reign. The natural world, the unnatural world, the political of the play, as well as the physical world were all negatively affected. When it came to nature in Macbeth, Shakespeare used a medieval belief of how nature and society formulate together (Raikespeare in Film), the concept of murder, corruption of the human soul, witchcraft and curses (Pilkington). Macbeth stands as a representation of the medieval belief of the ‘Great Chain of Being’ or scala naturae in Latin. This belief was introduced Neoplatonic corporatism, or the belief that society needs to be in formal divided parts that complement the function of the whole as a corpus or a body (Raikespeare in Film). (The Great Chain of Being, THEEMPIREOFFILMS) The natural order of this chain acted as a pyramid. At the very top there was God, next below were Angels ...