The preacher Hosea Ballou once said “there is no possible excuse for a guarded lie. Enthusiastic and impulsive people will sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivocation is a malice prepense.” William Shakespeare’s Macbeth evolves the ideas of deception and lying through the voices of characters dealing with their own morality. His use of equivocation not only shows how people lie, but their intentions while doing it as well.
People’s greed for power will often make them do immoral things. At the beginning of the play Macbeth seems as though he is a noble man; he is someone who proudly fights for his country. However, when the witches are introduced to Macbeth he seems to have a change in his demeanor. He now has the idea in his head that
People’s greed for power will often make them do immoral things. At the beginning of the play Macbeth seems as though he is a noble man; he is someone who proudly fights for his country. However, when the witches are introduced to Macbeth he seems to have a change in his demeanor. He now has the idea in his head that