Examine the Role of the Supernatural in the Lord of the Flies, Macbeth and in the Rime of the Ancien
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Later on he sees the dead men rising, "I woke and we were sailing on, as in a gentle weather twas night calm night, the man was high the dead men stood together, all together on the deck, far a charnel-dungeon filler, all fixed on me their stony eyes, that in the moon did glitter, the pang, the curse, with which they died had never passed away: I could not draw my eyes from theirs, nor turn them up to pray. And now the spell was snapped: once more I viewed the ocean green and looked far forth yet little saw of what had else been seen." Finally the curse was broken after he was able to pray and sleep the boat can carry on. This is brought on by him killing an albatross which is seen as a superstitious element of luck.
Macbeth sees ghosts and hallucinates more than once; he sees the vision of Banquo's dead body and sees the visions when the witches predict the future the second time. It wasn't only Macbeth but also his wife Lady Macbeth who started sleep-walking as well as showing her guilt by trying to clean the blood ...
