Shakespeare's Macbeth-The Great Chain Of Being

In William Shakespeare's Macbeth, there is a definite focus on power and who may hold that power. The protagonist and namesake of Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, is the one who seeks more power and does what he can to keep that power once he finally attains it. Macbeth’s struggle however, opens to a much bigger idea that was accepted during the Elizabethan Era - The Great Chain of Being. Shakespeare uses this play and this idea of social order that the Great Chain of Being is to give meaning to Macbeth, that one shouldn’t be too ambitious, what is should not be changed, or else chaos ensues. During the Elizabethan Era, The Great Chain of Being was the social law that was accepted by the Elizabethans. It was a strict social order that was believed