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 Manipulation and Deceit Lady Macbeth- "Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures. ‘Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil. If he do bleep, I’ll gild the faces of the grooms withal, for it must seem there guilt.”



Lady Macbeth- "All our service In every point twice done, and then done double were poor and single business to contend Against those honors deep and broad werewith Your Majesty loads our house. For those of old, And the late dignities heaped up to them, We rest your hermits."

Lady Macbeth- "We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place, and we’ll not fail, when Duncan is asleep…will I with wine and wassail so convince that memory…and the receipt of reason a limbeck only."

The First Witch- "All hail Macbeth, Thane of Glamis!" Second Witch- "All hail Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! Third Witch- "All hail Macbeth! That shall be king hereafter!"









Manipulation and deceit is seen throughout Macbeth in a variety of ways. The three witches are at the root of the manipulation and deceit as they lead Macbeth in his conquest to become the king. Without their manipulative predictions Macbeth would have never become so power hungry, which was also instigated by Lady Macbeth who became just as power hungry after she heard about what could be. Lady Macbeth decieved Duncan when he came to stay at her home, giving him a false impression of her respect and devotion. When Duncan was found dead, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth acted shocked, and Macbeth even killed a servent out of his false rage. Later on in the play, Malcom used deceit to test Macduff to see to whom he was loyal. Without manipulation and deceit, the play would lack the drama and tragedy for which it is so celebrated.