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The whole play is about the battle of good versus evil; at the opening of the play Macbeth is fighting for good, for gracious Duncan against rebels, during the play he is battling his own evil ambition and at the close he is fighting for evil, for himself, against rebels. This good versus evil, heaven versus hell theme gives the play a simple shape or symmetry. The actual embodiments of evil in this play are the witches. They said that: "Fair is foul and foul is fair" and in parallel, so did Macbeth. This showed to your Jacobean audience that the witches were evil and so was Macbeth, as they were great believers in an orderly, un-chaotic society. The disorder also extended to the minds of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth. They both went steadily insane. Macbeth saw and heard things: "Is this a dagger I see before me?" The conflict played out in the Macbeth's diseased brains was a microcosm of the conflict