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Examples Of Fair And Foul Is Fair Macbeth

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“Fair is foul, and foul is fair. Let’s fly away through the fog and filthy air.” That was the witches in the Shakespearean play Macbeth. These witches tell the character Macbeth about a prophecy that he shall be king. In his way to be king and while he is king he tries to bury the past and control the future. The most prominent example of this is him killing Banquo and trying to kill Fleance.

In the first act Banquo knew about the prophecy because he was there with Macbeth when the witches told about it. “Your descendants will be kings, even you will not be. So hail Macbeth and Banquo.” (Witch 3 line 68 of No Fear Shakespeare: Macbeth). That means Fleance, who is Banquo’s son, will be king so Macbeth tries to control the future by trying

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