Theme Of Betrayal In Macbeth

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MACBETH
"WITH GREAT POWERS COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY"
The story of Macbeth's that explores witchcraft, lies, betrayal and deception it is full of twist and turns. Friends become rival enemies. On this play William Shakespeare explores different angles of deception, from the lies that are covered in truth or the truth covered in lies. The use of magic powers, peoples evil desires and how the witches convince people to do evil acts using the images, apparitions and riddles to communicate their evil ways. The play contains a number of instances which lack clear important meaning, confusion uncertainties unclear statements made by the three witches or the three wiered sisters.
Macbeth's misinterpretations of the witches relates to the story
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So in order to make his wicked desires come to life Macbeth decides to betray his own friend Banquo by not only murdering him but to kill Banquo's son Fleance too. Fleance was a threat to Macbeth, because he might have be the one who will take the crown from him. Here the first hint of the witches' ambiguity is seen; the wiered sisters as they are called told Banquo that he would be "Lesser than Macbeth, and greater. Not so happy, yet much happier" (I.iii.64-65) Macbeth thinks this meant that Banquo will somehow use the power that Macbeth himself has and kill him. However, we knew the true meaning of the prophecy and it was that Banquo will never be king, and so he is less than Macbeth, but he remains loyal to his king and commits no murder for his own prophecy to come true: and is therefor greater than Macbeth in the eyes of heaven. Further more Banquo is filled with doubt about whether his friend Macbeth has murdered the king; nevertheless Banquo is not as happy as Macbeth was when Macbeth took the throne. However, he is assured his son's will be kings of Scotland, so he is much happier than Macbeth, who will be hated by the people if the truth ever came out, and will probably end up unhappy his whole …show more content…
For Macbeth, whatever else it is, remains the subliment and most 'morden' of morality plays. (Garber 2004: 723)". Even though Banquo and Macbeths at the same time heard their lives being phrophesised by the whitches both of them after hearing their phrophecies they entepreted their phrophecies differently. Even though they did not led Banquo to commit murder or act in any evil way rather he would wait and let fate takebit course. Macbeths on the other side he would have been great but greediness and wickedness got better of him which led him to his down

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