Appearances are Deceiving in Shakespeare's Macbeth. Reference quotes to the text and lines cited.

The Renaissance play The Tragedy of Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, truly demonstrated a compelling tale of greed, power, and jealousy. The play revealed the turn of a good nobleman into a powerful and greedy king. It showed audiences how one crime led to another and eventually to a gruesome melee. Throughout the tragedy there appeared to be a reoccurring theme stated finest as appearances are deceiving. The audience is first introduced to the theme …

…drastically through the many happenings a person must endure, good or bad. In this case, the change was sparked in Macbeth due to his own greed for power. At the beginning of the play, the phrase was spoken: "Foul is fair, and fair is foul" (I, i. 10) by the three malevolent witches. Shakespeare's play kept readers on guard by continuously presenting the idea of images, actions, and words being deceivingly different from how they appeared.