FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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it is sometimes good for aman to suffer
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the witches will expect tobe rewarded
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the witches will betrayMacbeth by telling him what he wants to hear
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the witches might speak truthfullyand bestow small favors in order to cause Macbeth’s downfall
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Detailed explanation-1: -Banquo is saying that the witches tell you truths but when the damage is done they betray us. In the scene prior we see Duncan giving macbeth the tile as thane so the witches trick him i to believing the truths.
Detailed explanation-2: -As to their purpose, Banquo warns Macbeth, “to win us to our harm, / The instruments of darkness tell us truths” only to betray us in the end.
Detailed explanation-3: -Poets may also warn against evil. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth we read “But ‘tis strange, and oftentimes to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles to betray us in deepest consequence.” Art in its various forms, that inspires us to choose the good and be happy, is of God.