Use of the Supernatural in MacbethIn Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Macbeth, Shakespeare uses an underlying motif of the supernatural to control the characters and add a new dimension to the play.Shakespeare uses a large motif of light versus darkness throughout the piece to present moral choices and religious ideas. As the play opens, thunder rumbles and witches appear on stage. Thunder symbolizes darkness and gives the audience the first impression that the play will not be ordinary. Witches who only appear in the dark, elements of the supernatural, are one of Shakespeare's classic ways of grabbing the audience's attention and setting the mood of the play. Another motif present in Macbeth is appearance versus reality. In this motif, Shakespeare uses concepts that allude to the character's delusion or that a supernatural force has taken over and controls what is real and what is not. We see an example of this when Macbeth sees the dagger in front of him. The dagger could simply be a hallucination or vision sent over Wi-Fi....