In the Scottish tragedy Macbeth by William Shakespeare chaos and disorder are a driving factor in the plot of the play. It is caused by the three Witches who trick Macbeth into believing the illusion of their predictions. Macbeth, armed with a dangerous ambition, goes and creates more disorder throughout the play. A motif that can be traced through the play that adds disorder is weather. In the very beginning of the play one can see the beginning of the motif of weather. The Great Chain of Being, which was a system that God put in place. This system had the king at the top, and then the Lords, and then the Knights, and so on, down to the peasants at the bottom. People had to stay in the places they were born in, because that’s what God had decided. When Macbeth killed the king, he disrupted The Great Chain of Being and this meant that God deserted them and chaos took over the world.