between the fate of kings and the fate of their people--the fate of kings is tied to the order of the universe, and dissension and tension in one are reflected in the other. Macbeth is a usurper, a regicide, and thus a man who has challenged the natural order of the universe and who has therefore sealed his own fate. The usurpation of the throne leads to a more dangerous and uncertain environment in the land, and nature concurs by expressing through storms and other travails visited upon the people that a great political wrong is also a great moral and religious wrong.
Maynard Mack discusses the theme of regicide, finding that in several plays the action of the regicide becomes increasingly symbolic as an act of drama:
Progressively, national politics, social consequences, personal experience, psychic tension, religious dimensions, mythic structures, and metaphysical implications are examined until, in Macbeth, where all of these are present, the killings of Duncan and Macbeth contain almost the full meaning of action in a tragic world (Mack
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