Lady Macbeth Deceiving

Williams Shakespeare Macbeth is a play which involves the king of Scotland, Macbeth and his tragic downfall due to his greed for power. Macbeth refrains from nothing to get what he wants and kills many kings, friends and innocent people that intentionally or even unintentionally stand in his way. Throughout the play, the theme “appearances can be deceiving" has been seen through not only characters but also through different courses of action. Macbeth is the main one to create a deceiving character but not the only one. Lady Macbeth and the witches are very deceiving in terms of wanting more power or just the case of being evil and creating certain situations. Shakespeare develops the theme appearances can be deceiving through Macbeth, Lady

She is the only person that is able to easily influence and reveal his thoughts to her. Macbeth is not the only power hungry person in the play, Lady Macbeth is eager to make sure Macbeth gains the title of king. Lady Macbeth is first seen as a noble lady married to a warrior, but throughout the play she develops a greed type of personality. Lady Macbeth is eager to kill the king but deep down is weak so she prays to the evil spirits to "stop the access and passage to remorse"(Shakespeare 1.5.45). She does this in order to feel stronger and feel like she is able to kill and not feel remorseful for the rest of her life. She shows others that she is strong, but deep down she is weak and not a killer. Macbeth and his wife welcomed King Duncan to their home to 'thank' him for all he has done for the kingdom. Lady Macbeth starts of by being deceiving by welcoming Duncan and thanking him for using his land and that it is "still to return to your own"(Shakespeare 1.6.26-27). Lady Macbeth had already planned to kill King Duncan, she becomes deceptive in the fact that she welcomes the King with warm arms and acts like she is his loyal kingdom member. Lady Macbeth transitions from being all into murder and gaining power but then after all the events happen she regrets it. She wants people to see her as a young, strong, courageous woman but in reality she is weak due to wanting power but not accepting consequences. When the murders first

This set the whole play up in terms of why Macbeth would be in certain situations and what he was willing to do. The Witches claimed that "fair is foul, and foul is fair"(Shakespeare 1.1.10-11) speaking in contents of the prophecies. The witches discover that Macbeth is easily influenced which is why they tell him that no matter how foul a situation is, it will help him out in the future. The prophecies which seem fair to Macbeth are actually foul due to consequences that will have to occur for the prophecy to become true. One of the witches prophecies stated that there would only be a battle if the woods had moved, this is very misleading due to the "the Number of our host and make discovery Err report of us" (Shakespeare 5.4.6) which meant that the "woods" had moved closer. Macduff had made his men camouflage in trees/nature so that they would not be seen which startled Macbeth. Macbeth relied on the witches prophecies which in the end created his tragic downfall due to thinking he was too superior. Another prophecy in which was deceiving was when the witches told Macbeth he could not be killed by man but in fact "Macduff was from his mothers womb, untimely ripped"(Shakespeare 5.8.15) which means Macduff can kill Macbeth. Macbeth only finds this out last minute which startles him and comes as a shock. The whole play no one would have known Macduff was not born from human whom