English - Macbeth quotes on natural order

‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’

Demonstrates moral and natural order from the beginning of the play

‘Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope the lord’s anointed temple’

Depicts Duncan’s murder as a sin against god’s chosen king

‘A falcon, towering in her pride of place, was by a mousing owl hawk’d at and kill’d’

Ironic as a predator does not usually get killed by its own prey, it is usually the opposite; it is a metaphor for Macbeth and King Duncan where Macbeth a ‘prey’ kills King Duncan, the ‘predator’

‘And Duncan’s horses…turn’d wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out, contending ‘gainst obedience’

Duncan’s tame horses run wild sowing how domesticated nature is rebelling against the murder; a way of conveying that killing the rightful king has thrown the world out of order