This paper discusses the commonalities in 3 different Shakespeare plays. Macbeth" is a largely supernatural story. The prophecies of the witches, the hallucinations of both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth before and after the murders stand out powerfully in the play to bring out what the human mind is capable of conceiving and what the human will is capable of choosing. Lady Macbeth speaks the latter lines while she sleepwalks, and even then, she refuses rationalizes that they have nothing to fear because no one else knows about the murder they committed. She also blames the king for having "so much blood in him" that it spills into her hands. But it is at this point that Lady Macbeth loses her mind. If in "Macbeth," the supernatural is used by Shakespeare to predict, to warn and to torture the conscience of the guilty, he uses it in "Hamlet" as an ally that seeks revenge. In "King Lear," the supernatural is utilized by Shakespeare to picture the magnitude of the king's indignation, the depth of his sorrow and the extent of his depression in a way that the reader can imagine or personally experience.
