Regardless of your stance on supernatural events in our world, you must recognize the supernatural forces at play in Shakespeare's Macbeth. In our society, we occasionally hear ghost stories or urban legends, which suggest an entanglement between our world and a more supernatural one. However, when you look into the world of Macbeth, you are thrown into a world of witches, ghosts, and prophecies, all of which have a very real influence on their world. These supernatural forces pull the strings, manipulating the natural world to their liking or advantage. This is seen in the witch's manipulation of Macbeth, which drives the main plot of the play. Macbeth is manipulated by supernatural forces to perform acts that went against his nature and that of the world, withering his humanity and making him just as unnatural as his manipulators. Humanity is made up of what is natural to all humans: love, emotions, relationships and ambition. The supernatural forces in the work cause these characteristics (his humanity) to diminish. Specifically, his capacity for love is erased, as seen with his relationship with Lady Macbeth, and his natural ambition is replaced with an unnatural sense of predestined entitlement, which guides him in his crimson-stained rise to power. In Act 4, Scene 1, Macbeth approaches the witches and asks them for help. In doing so he gives up his ability to make decisions for himself. With faith in the witches having been solidified within him by the accuracy of their previous prophecies, he did not think twice about the witches' suggestion to kill Duncan. Since Macbeth attributes all his successes thus far to the witches, he would blindly follow every suggestion given by t...... middle of paper ......ion While carrying out the murder this process has not yet been completed, and this is the cause of his guilt after committing the crime. A Macbeth, who has never been manipulated, would never have crossed his mind to kill Duncan, much less have he had the ability to carry out the act. The witches' manipulation of Macbeth causes his humanity to diminish, replacing his ability to love. , with the capacity to hate and his ambition with right. Macbeth had been manipulated by supernatural forces to perform acts that went against his nature and that of the world, causing his humanity to wither and making him just as unnatural as his handlers. Without this intervention the balance of the natural world would never have been distorted, and Macbeth's rise and fall from glory would never have occurred, leaving us without one of the greatest texts of all time..