In Scene 4 all of the natural orders are reversed. The world has been turned inside out which is supposed to confuse and scare the audience/ readers. An example of this is
“And Duncan’s horses–a thing most strange and certain–
Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race,
Turn’d wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out,
Contending ‘gainst obedience, as they would make
War with mankind.” This is very strange considering that horses have a calm nature they are completely changing their temper and becoming cannibals even though they are herbivores. I think that this is to show that something has corrupted that natural order. That corruption, in my opinion, is the killing of the king. The king’s death corrupts the peace and natural order of all the land because he was murdered and didn’t die naturally because his life was cheated by Macbeth.
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