Insight to Macbeth

• Great chain of being- to begin with God, next closest was king(ruler), down to servants and social classes, then to animals.
• Any attempt to break great chain of being leads to universal chaos.
• People were really searching for things to make sense. They didn't know who to listen to with power. Did people listen to supernatural God or Christian God?
• Witches and witchcraft is used a lot in Macbeth.
• Fair is foul and foul is fair.(chiasmus,paradox,juxtaposition)
• When Shakespeare wrote Macbeth the king had wrote demonology which was related to witchcraft. Right before Macbeth was published witchcraft became a federal offense or crime. 
• Macbeth is such a dark and supernatural play that people won't actually call the play Macbeth because it is bad luck.
• King James himself symbolized the Union of Scotland in England.
• Shakespeare might have had to gain his approval because of the witchcraft and everything the king had done.
• Macbeth finds himself committing the greatest sin ever imaginable so he can't live with himself. 
• "Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day."