Macbeth Versions of Reality Quotes Page 1

The witches' chant, "fair is foul and foul is fair," reverberates throughout the entire play. Appearances can be deceiving and the difference between reality and illusion, good and evil, etc. is often as murky as the "fog and filthy air."

Hmm. This sounds familiar. Didn't the weird sisters just say something similar? Does Macbeth already have some kind of psychic connection with the weird sisters?

Here, King Duncan says that the former Thane of Cawdor (who turned out to be a traitor) seemed to be a "gentleman" he could "trust." His insistence that it's impossible to know a man's mind by reading his "face" suggests that Duncan has learned his lesson because he acknowledges that outside appearances cannot be banked on. Yet, he makes the exact same mistake when he names Macbeth Thane of Cawdor and puts his faith in the man who will eventually murder him.