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Examples Of The Equivocation In Macbeth

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The Equivocation means using ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself.On the one hand, an "equivocator" is a person who speaks ambiguously or doesn't tell the whole truth or it has a double meaning, which shows up over and over in Macbeth. The two equivocation that I discovered is all at act 4, one of the equivocation is when the Son of Macduff asks his mother what a traitor is, and then the mother replies"Why, one that swears and lies" the swear means in what the mother of son of Macduff replies is not like what we know, it doesn't mean bad words or disgraceful word(act 4, scene 2), the second equivocator is when Macduff is in England to get Malcolm's support for a war against Macbeth, Ross enters the scene and

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