"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't." ( Shakespeare I. v. 64-65). In the play Macbeth by Shakespeare a Scottish soldier named Macbeth who was told a prophecy by a trio of witches that he is to become King, driven by his wife who tells him to act like a perfect host but hide the real purpose he is here, and kill King Duncan. He takes the Throne himself, he then goes from a sane man to a paranoid and guilty one. In Macbeth Shakespeare uses the motif supernatural to develop the message of corruption to the innocent mind. Macbeth has just won the war and is taking a walk with his trusty companion Banquo. They come across three witches and they tell him “ All hail macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis/ All hail Macbeth! …show more content…
He believes that he has a chance to become king until, Duncan grant's his son prince of Chamberlin and this is where it really started to blossom in his mind. But he doesn’t kill the King until his wife pushes him to do it. After he kills the King he becomes paranoid and thinks that Banquo is on to him. So he hires three murders to kill him and his son Fleance. Banquo does get killed and Fleance runs off, but back at the dinner in Macbeth's eyes his friend isn’t dead yet. “ Prithee, see there! Be hold! Look! Lo how say you?/ Why, what care I. If thou canst nod, speak too./ If charnel-houses and our graves must send/ those that we bury back to our monuments”, (III.iv.70-74) Banquo’s ghost showed up to the dinner and Macbeth was the only one who could see him. He threw a fit and was creating chaos yelling foul things at the thin air. Macbeth's mind is so corrupted that he's imagining the ghost of the man he had killed. He is losing his sanity and giving in to the foulness of murder and evil. Macbeth needs to know will Banquo's sons become king so he seeks out the witches and receives more information than he bargained for “Be bloody and resolute: laugh to scorn/ The power of man; none for of woman born/ Shall