Apperance vs reality
The Double Edged Sword
Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Macbeth is a sword with a double edged blade. Although we are forced to see the side pointing us, it is the side that is pointing away that is sharper and less used. Macbeth and his lovely wife lady Macbeth are both great examples of this sword that appearance and reality both share from their multiple levels of deception done to Duncan, to their slightest change in the characters they once were. Nothing in this story is really what it seams and that is what brings the greatness in this tragedy brought to this world by the wonderful mind of Shakespeare.
In the times of Shakespeare and in our own times, a person can convince us they’re something else and mask the face of their true being. One could see this in the case of a valiant and honorable solider Macbeth, who fought without fear nor falter for his country. From the outside many respected this solider, as well as the king who gifted him for his promising and honorable ways. Rather, as his wife would describe, he was “like a flower, but is a serpent” stirring the idea of appearance and reality. He was a truly a black sheep tainted by the perception that he could become a great king, though he put forth he was of the trustworthy kind. However, he possessed ruthlessness and a will to do what he had to get what he wanted no matter the immoralities.
Appearance and reality played a deceptive hand in the life of Macbeth, which was well hidden away from his family and friends. When he is presented by witches who say to him he is to become king he struggles to show that he is noble and honorable, saying that " Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day," in a desperate attempt to show strength, and saying that if it is to happen it will on its own. Though the reality is he holds great weakness which shines through his façade when he begins the ruthlessness it takes to fulfill the witches’ prophecy. In this case Macbeth puts up the
Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Macbeth is a sword with a double edged blade. Although we are forced to see the side pointing us, it is the side that is pointing away that is sharper and less used. Macbeth and his lovely wife lady Macbeth are both great examples of this sword that appearance and reality both share from their multiple levels of deception done to Duncan, to their slightest change in the characters they once were. Nothing in this story is really what it seams and that is what brings the greatness in this tragedy brought to this world by the wonderful mind of Shakespeare.
In the times of Shakespeare and in our own times, a person can convince us they’re something else and mask the face of their true being. One could see this in the case of a valiant and honorable solider Macbeth, who fought without fear nor falter for his country. From the outside many respected this solider, as well as the king who gifted him for his promising and honorable ways. Rather, as his wife would describe, he was “like a flower, but is a serpent” stirring the idea of appearance and reality. He was a truly a black sheep tainted by the perception that he could become a great king, though he put forth he was of the trustworthy kind. However, he possessed ruthlessness and a will to do what he had to get what he wanted no matter the immoralities.
Appearance and reality played a deceptive hand in the life of Macbeth, which was well hidden away from his family and friends. When he is presented by witches who say to him he is to become king he struggles to show that he is noble and honorable, saying that " Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day," in a desperate attempt to show strength, and saying that if it is to happen it will on its own. Though the reality is he holds great weakness which shines through his façade when he begins the ruthlessness it takes to fulfill the witches’ prophecy. In this case Macbeth puts up the