Macbeth

The witches end the first scene with a paradox: "fair is foul, and foul is fair." Explain the ways in which this contradiction is shown to be true in Act 1

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Shakespeare uses equivocation, informal fallacy, to illustrate the duality of human nature throughout the play. What seems to be the truth always has an opposite reflection. Macbeth has these traits in his personality.