As the story develops, the realities of the situations become pure illusions. Everything starts to become an illusion after Macbeth meets the three witches. Repeatedly, he begins to ponder on the idea of becoming king. Knowing that this could be true, he and Lady Macbeth plan a scheme to get rid of Duncan (the present king). At the banquet, Lady Macbeth appears to appreciate Duncan by complementing him with meaningless phrases. "All our service, In every point twice done and then done double,"1 This does not mean anything to Lady Macbeth. Her words are very different than those from her thoughts. She was the one who in the first place persuaded Macbeth in killing Duncan. After Duncan is killed, Lady Macbeth acts as if the news shocked her, "Help me hence, ho!"2

In scene vii of Act 1, the audience listens to Macbeth talking to himself. In this soliloquy he has doubts in killing Duncan, he believes Duncan has been a good king and that it is safer for him not to get into any danger. Lady Macbeth convinces him to do what wa

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth create many illusions in the story, but they are not the only characters who do this. Banquo begins to suspect that Macbeth killed Duncan so that he could become king, but does not say anything directly at him. Macbeth senses this and his ambition grows. He does not want Banquo's sons to become king the day he dies. As a friendly gesture, he invites him to a feast, which in reality is a plan to kill him. As well as Banquo, Lennox is suspicious of Macbeth. He does not say anything to Macbeth and acts as if everything is normal. He acts as if Macbeth is a good king, when in reality he is waiting for Macduff to return with help from England to overthrow Macbeth from the throne.

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