The Theme Of Appearance Vs Reality In Macbeth
Macbeth Macbeth a novel written by Shakespeare a well written novel which has a puzzle many, creating many types of topics or conflicts one of them being apperance vs reality.
The major ideas of the text is when ambitious overwhelms moral constraints, also shows corruption, cruelty and betrayal. One example of this is when Macbeth was a brave man at the beginning of the text and towards the end he showed he was a merciless murder. There are many lines in the text where people get fooled by appearances and in reality the get stabbed in the back.
One of the first reasons why apperance vs reality are shown in the text is because of trust. Trust is one of the hardest things that a human can gain back in the first act something is mention to warn Macbeth. The three weird sister or witches as they are described in the text mention on Act I lines 12-13, “ All fair is foul and foul is fair: hover through the fog and filthy air,” The quotes is saying to not trust anyone or anything, because in the middle of the fog it’s hard to see what is really there, people appearances may fool but reality is that under that appearance may be something evil. …show more content…
Towards the end of the text Malcolm shows he is a double sided person. On Act V. VI line 1-2 Malcolm mentions “ Now near enough: Your leafy screens throw down/ and show like those who you are.” Malcolm army shows what they really are their true colors at first Malcolm seen like a good guy but no it shows that he changed into this evil figure ordering and letting ambitious take over. This relates to appearance vs reality in the way that it shows how superficially people can seem good but internally they are rotten cold hearted and
The major ideas of the text is when ambitious overwhelms moral constraints, also shows corruption, cruelty and betrayal. One example of this is when Macbeth was a brave man at the beginning of the text and towards the end he showed he was a merciless murder. There are many lines in the text where people get fooled by appearances and in reality the get stabbed in the back.
One of the first reasons why apperance vs reality are shown in the text is because of trust. Trust is one of the hardest things that a human can gain back in the first act something is mention to warn Macbeth. The three weird sister or witches as they are described in the text mention on Act I lines 12-13, “ All fair is foul and foul is fair: hover through the fog and filthy air,” The quotes is saying to not trust anyone or anything, because in the middle of the fog it’s hard to see what is really there, people appearances may fool but reality is that under that appearance may be something evil. …show more content…
Towards the end of the text Malcolm shows he is a double sided person. On Act V. VI line 1-2 Malcolm mentions “ Now near enough: Your leafy screens throw down/ and show like those who you are.” Malcolm army shows what they really are their true colors at first Malcolm seen like a good guy but no it shows that he changed into this evil figure ordering and letting ambitious take over. This relates to appearance vs reality in the way that it shows how superficially people can seem good but internally they are rotten cold hearted and