Macbeth5

             Shakespeare's Macbeth involves betrayal, frauds, and false appearances between the characters. Nothing is what is seems to be. The characters' ambitions grow and evil controls their fate.
             As the story develops, the realities of the situations become pure illusions. Everything starts to become an illusion after Macbeth meets the three witches. Repeatedly, he begins to ponder on the idea of becoming king. Knowing that this could be true, he and Lady Macbeth plan a scheme to get rid of Duncan (the present king). At the banquet, Lady Macbeth appears to appreciate Duncan by complementing him with meaningless phrases. "All our service, In every point twice done and then done double,"1 This does not mean anything to Lady Macbeth. Her words are very different than those from her thoughts. She was the one who in the first place persuaded Macbeth in killing Duncan. After Duncan is killed, Lady Macbeth acts as if the news shocked her, "Help me hence, ho!"2
             In scene vii of Act 1, the audience listens to Macbeth talking to himself. In this soliloquy he has doubts in killing Duncan, he believes Duncan has been a good king and that it is safer for him not to get into any danger. Lady Macbeth convinces him to do what was planned by threatening his manhood. Macbeth talks with Banquo, who had dreamt about the witches prophecies. After Macbeth is left alone, he sees a dagger. In this other soliloquy we can now see what is going through his mind. The audience now realizes that Macbeth is determined to become king while he describes how he will "Moves like a ghost...Hear not my steps, which (way they) walk, for fear"3 After he hears the bell the audience definitely knows that Duncan will be killed. "I go, and it is done. The bell invites me."4 When the news of Duncan's death reaches Macbeth, the audience can tell that he is different from the rest of the people. Everyone is shocked by the death and talks direct and spontan
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