I think that Shakespeare is indirectly mocking gossip, and how something so false such as Macbeth feigning that he has lost his mind, can travel so quickly. Macbeth takes advantage of the "gossip chain" and convinces Ophelia that he is mad. Once Ophelia tells her father, the right hand man to King Claudius, he goes ahead and tells the King himself. Claudius then goes ahead and hires two men to watch every move of Macbeth and show him a good time, in order to hear the truth. Shakespeare make a mockery of how something so false spreads so quickly. Sadly, the "gossip chain" has grown considerably since the times of Shakespeare.
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