"Macbeth"

"The night has been unruly: where we lay, our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say, lamentings heard i' the air; strange screams of death, and prophesying with accents terrible of dire combustion and confused events new hatch'd to the woeful time: the obscure bird Clamour'd the livelong night: some say, the earth was feverous and did shake." (II.iii.54-62) Death is a person, haunting those who are waking and those who are …

…specter of the spiritual realm, going to the world to seek those who need salvation, to bring them to repentance. Macbeth is not a play of the physical realm, but a play of the spiritual realm in the physical world. "I go, and it is done; the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell." (II.i.62-64) <Tab/>