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.
– William Shakespeare
Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 3. The Scottish nobleman Lennox remarks to Macbeth how stormy it was the night before, with chimneys blown down, cries of death, terrifying voices prophesying fire and chaos, and the earth shaking. These supernatural occurrences and havoc in nature show how the natural order has been upset by the murder of the lawful King Duncan during the night. The earth and weather are reacting to an unnatural crime. This is an example of pathetic fallacy. We also see foreshadowing of the discovery and announcement of Duncan’s murder.