Apperance vs Reailty

Macbeth- Appearance vs. Reality through Imagery of Clothing “In the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end; it was actions that defined everyone” (Nicholas Sparks). Do you judge a person based upon their appearance? If you do, Shakespeare taught me not to through his famous tragic play Macbeth. Like many great authors Shakespeare wrote about the consequences one had to face after judging another person based upon their appearance. The important theme of appearance vs. reality is shown through the imagery of clothing throughout the play. In the play Macbeth, the author (Shakespeare) suggests that many things which we see are actually just appearance, but not the reality, the reason I say this is because of the following three reasons: What happens to King Duncan, Lady Macbeth, and ________. Lady Macbeth was a very ambitious woman in the play. She was the one who talked her husband to kill King Duncan, which was Macbeth’s first murder. “Look like the innocent flower but but the serpent under’t” (1.5.64-66). Lady Macbeth says this to Macbeth when she was trying to convince him to murder King Duncan. This shows that Lady Macbeth told Macbeth to be two faced, and not to let people see the real him. This also shows us that she is a very powerful woman since she got her husband to murder someone. “Woe, also! What! in our house?”(2.3.89). This quote occurs when Lady Macbeth is acting shocked at hearing the news of the murder of King Duncan, when in reality she knows all about it since she was a part of the murder. “Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts unsex me, here and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty” (1.5.38-43). In the soliloquy where Lady Macbeth is asking the sprits to come and unsex her, we find out how ambitious woman she is. Was Lady Macbeth really this strong and powerful or was it just a cover up? Throughout the play, Lady Macbeth acted to be a very strong character but in the end we see it was