Macbeth's 'Fair And Foul Is Fair'
“Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair” The play Macbeth, was written around 1606 by the famous poet William Shakespeare. In the plot, Macbeth is told prophecies by three witches and he does everything in his power to make sure he becomes the king, as they proclaimed, including murder. In Macbeth, one theme presented is “fair is foul, and foul is fair,” meaning that things appearing to be good are sometimes bad, and things that at first seem bad can actually be good. There are many examples in the play to support this with regard to the supernatural, nature, and the play’s characters. To begin, this quote is relevant to the supernatural in the play, one application being to the people who said this chant first: the three witches. For example, the