Examples Of Lady Macbeth's Deception

Macbeth’s wife uses deception to make everyone into thinking she is an unaware, caring and a lovely person, although she is just tricking everybody. Lady Macbeth deceives Duncan into feeling safe and comfortable at Inverness. She welcomes the king in Inverness at the castle. As Duncan is complementing the castle, Macbeth gradually makes his way to Duncan. Lady Macbeth knows the plan so she does not want him to get suspicious. She is acting all ecstatic and innocent and Duncan is delightful which is why Lady Macbeth knows it’s going well. Lady Macbeth is planning to deceive the king into thinking nothing will happen. She wants him to think this castle is very safe and he should not worry about anything. Lady Macbeth welcomes King Duncan to the castle at Inverness in a softly manner: “For those of …show more content…
As Lady Macbeth is being charming and verbally expresses “ We ecstatically welcome you as our guests”. She is intentionally giving Duncan a warmer welcome than usual. Lady Macbeth is deceiving the king to make him think she is a lovely person and caring person. Lady Macbeth is again utilizing her evil traits for herself-fascinating nature as she is fooling Duncan, just so Macbeth can murder him. So in this case she is utilizing deception to mislead him and it’s working. After the feast, Duncan goes to sleep thinking he is safe after the warm welcome by Lady Macbeth. This is when Macbeth goes and kills King Duncan in Inverness at night. Lady Macbeth’s villainous mind once again leads to a major devastating event. She convinces the people at Inverness that she is completely unaware, and is in shock after hearing the news of Duncan’s death. After the murder of Duncan,which Macbeth is responsible for, he returns to Lady Macbeth and brings the daggers with him that he applies to kill Duncan with. She then tells him to go and place the evidence on the guards so they do not get