Shakespeare uses weather in his tragedies to express the disruptions in nature that evil creates. In the early part of the play, the appearance of the witches is accompanied by thunder and lightening. Drama is added to the scene, almost as if the weather is another character in the scene designed to enhance our understanding of the seriousness of the situation. Later in the play animals act out of character another example that nature or the natural order has been disturbed.
In Shakespeare's world there are forces of good and evil. When the two are out of balance, such as when great evil is unleashed, by the witches, by the murders, by wars, he uses the images of disturbed nature to emphasize how evil unravels the very fabric of human existence. At some point positive events must cancel out the evil. Thereby restoring the balance of nature. In the end the circle of evil is closed by the deaths of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth and by Malcolm becoming the rightful and true king.
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