Your hand, your tongue: expression like the innocent flower, but be the serpent undert. (Shakespeare 1.5. 64-66) Throughout Shakespeares Macbeth, things are not always as they seem. Deception in this play is always present, peculiarly with the master(prenominal) characters - Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is the most skil take at persuading others, especially her save, into believe things that are not true. The preceding(prenominal) quote, spoken by Lady Macbeth to her husband, shows exactly how manipulative and deceiving she can be. She is telling Macbeth to look and act pure, but to be evil inside. Macbeth, evidently led by his wife, but also by his own ambitions, is excessively guilty of deception. He deceives his best friend Banquo, King Duncan, as well as his public. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth also try to engagement denial and rationalization to deceive themselves. This self-deception leads to grave band for them both. Macbeth is forced into further and further lies, making life effortful and unbearable. Lady Macbeth is also caught in the depths of deception and eventually kills herself. Therefore, it is unequivocal that the main characters of Shakespeares Macbeth are all negatively affected by the recurring matter of deception.
        Throughout the play, Lady Macbeth uses her ability to deprave others in many ways. First of all, she decides to use deception to promote her husbands ambition to be king.
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Hie thee hither, that I may pour my animate in thine ear, and chastise with the valour of my tongue all that impedes thee from the prospering round...(1.5.25-28)
Lady Macbeth believes that, to be successful in his ambitions, Macbeth must rise above his goodness and accept her evil ways. She knows that the process of making her husband believe what she wants may not be easy. Lady Macbeth has to be cunning, and...
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