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Deception In Macbeth Research Paper

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Deception of Macbeth

Have you ever had a friend or family member hurt you to the point you didn’t want to be their friend anymore or around that family member? Many times in life there will be a bunch of times where people will deceive you and do you completely wrong. In Shakespeare's story Macbeth Lady Macbeth and Macbeth do quite a bite of deceiving throughout the story. There are three good examples of deception in Macbeth like being a trader, Macbeth killing Duncan and finally the last one is Lady Macbeth knows how to make Macbeth do the things she wants him to.

The first example of deception in the story of Macbeth written by Shakespeare is Macbeth being a trader. At the very opening of this play there is a fight between the king’s old Thane of Cawdor and Macbeth …show more content…

After Macbeth gets named the Thane of Cawdor it begins going to his head and he wants more power. He wants to become king so one night Macbeth and Lady Macbeth came up with a plan so Macbeth can become king. The plan was to kill the king and the person who is named Thane of Cawdor will become king, so all Macbeth needs to do know is find a way to get the king in a spot where nobody will see Macbeth killing Duncan. One night king Duncan comes to Macbeth’s house to stay the night over and that's when it was the perfect time for Macbeth to do his plan. So that night Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, king Duncan and the king's guards are all eating dinner and Macbeth gets ready for his plan. Lady Macbeth is going to hang around the guards and get them drunk and sleep with them that night, so when Duncan goes up to bed they won’t hear anything. While Duncan is sleeping Macbeth goes into the room and kills Duncan in his sleep and then hands the knife's over to the guards to make it look like they did it. So in the end of all this Macbeth ends up killing Duncan just like he wanted

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