Macbeth Response Act Two The events immediately following Duncan's murder struck me as unnatural and out of place. The most obvious sign of unnatural occurrences is the fact that the Macbeths cannot seam to wash their hands clean. In nature this would have been a simple task, but yet they cannot clean their hands (or minds) of evidence of their evil deeds. Secondly the actions of people around them also is out of the ordinary, …
showed first 75 words of 209 total

showed last 75 words of 209 total
…play, I feel it added to the notion that there was something pernicious going on in the castle because of the reference to hell, and the drunken state of the porter. In scene four the conversation between Ross and an old man reinforces the unnatural feeling. I thought the part about Duncan's horses tuning wild and running away was a great way to let the reader sense that nature knows what is really going on.