Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Appearance versus reality
- Through out the play Macbeth and Lady Macbeth pretend to
be people that they are not
- Lady Macbeth encourages this idea
- "look like th'innocent flower, But be the serpent under't"
- Initially Lady Macbeth finds this easy
and Macbeth struggles with it due to
hallucinations
- Later on in play guilt overwhelms Lady Macbeth
and she starts sleepwalking
- Leads to her killing herself
- Have to do it so no one suspects it was
them who murdered Duncan and Banqo
- Duncan trusted Macbeth
- Dies for it
- When Macbeth becomes king and Scotland is
in turmoil no one knows who to trust
- Witches prothesis only show a section of the truth
- Not all of it
- Despite Macbeth knowing reality and appearance don't always match
up - still completely trusts what the witches prophecies