deception

• To win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths'

  - Banquo (Act 1 Scene 3)

  - Warns Macbeth not to trust the witches

  - Lengthy line mirrors long traps evil spirts use to harm their victims

  - 'Win us to our harm' juxtaposition highlights pleasure of dark forces gain in betraying their victims

  - Connotations of 'darkness
• There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face'

  - Duncan (Act 1 Scene 4)

  - It is difficult to see beyond and not fall for people's facade and he's not a good judge of character
• Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it'

  - Lady Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 5)

  - Trying to teach Macbeth to deceive

  - 'Flower' imagery : inviting, perfect, nature, innocent

  - 'Serpent' imagery : sly, predatory, killer, sneaky
• Fail not our feast'

  - Macbeth (Act 3 Scene 1)

  - Insists of Banquo's presence and that it's important to him

  - Short simple sentence suggests how being deceptive is now second nature, imperative and commanding

  - Alliteration creates an assured tone making him seem natural
• Every minute of his being thrusts against my nearest of life'

  - Macbeth (Act 3 Scene 1)

  - He tricks murderers into believing Banquo is their enemy

  - Long sentence : desperate need to get rid of Banquo

  - 'Every minute' constant danger

  - 'Nearest life' Macbeth's existence is on borrowed time as long as Banquo is Alive

  - 'His being thrusts' imagery of Banquo as brutal threat to the throne
• Make our faces vizards to our hearts, disguising what they are'

  - Macbeth (Act 3 Scene 2)

  - Addressing and instructing his wife, he is now in charge

  - Imagery of their faces being mask suggests their outward appearances are betraying people

  - Hiding their true feeling
• Be bloody, bold resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth'

  - Second Apparition (Act 4 Scene 1)

  - Ghost takes form of bloody child

  - Elongated sentence signifies invincibility

  - Plosive alliteration, 'laugh to scorn' make him seem bold and encourages him to be over confident

  - 'None of women born' suggests he will be unstoppable but have actually deceived him with word play as it proves fatal in the end as Macduff was 'untimely ripped' from his mother's womb
• Begin to doubt the equivocation of the fiend that lies like the truth'

  - Macbeth (Act 5 Scene 5)

  - Realises he's been deceived by the apparitions

  - Long sentence : realisation of the truth

  - 'Begin to doubt' his boldness is faltering

  - 'Lies like truth' simile highlights vagueness of witches and lack of transparency from the beginning through the juxtaposition of these words

  - Similar to opening 'fair is foul and foul is fair' shows all is not as it seems