Macbeth Body Language Analysis

Can you tell when someone is telling a lie? People commonly believe that by looking at someone’s eyes, you can tell if he or she is lying. Humans have traditionally thought of the eyes as being the “windows to the soul.” In Macbeth, Duncan claims that this is untrue, stating that, “There is no art/ to find the mind’s construction in the face,” (Act 1, Scene 4, Lines 11-12). He is suggesting that you can not read someone’s emotions through their face or eyes. However, in the same way that it is possible to apply facial expressions and body language to figure out how someone’s emotion, it is possible to deduce what someone is feeling based on their eyes. As humans, people create similar facial expressions to describe how they are feeling. Facial