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Mind Map by Kujani Wanniarachchi, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Kujani Wanniarachchi
about 8 years ago
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Macbeth themes: Appearance and
reality
- Equivocation of the witches
- appear to be guiding Macbeth but in reality they are
luring him to his death
- 'Fair is foul and foul is fair'
- 'when the battle's lost and won'
- 'when the battle's lost and won'
- 3 apparitions
- Give Macbeth a false sense of security
- "None of woman born shall harm Macbeth"
- "None of woman born shall harm Macbeth"
- Give Macbeth a false sense of security
- Also reflected in their appearance
- 'you should be women and yet your beards forbid
me to interpret so'
- ambiguous puzzling nature in their
appearance as well as their words
- ambiguous puzzling nature in their
appearance as well as their words
- 'you should be women and yet your beards forbid
me to interpret so'
- appear to be guiding Macbeth but in reality they are
luring him to his death
- Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a tragic play full of lies and deceit. Characters are constantly lying about
who they are and commenting on their inability to trust other people’s words and outward
appearance. The three witches and their misleading prophecies show how everything is not as it
seems, and the hallucinations that both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have because of their guilt also
display how reality and illusion can become indiscernible. Through the use of the supernatural,
hallucinations, and statements by differing characters, Shakespeare displays the theme of
appearance versus reality.
- Lady macbeth
- 'Look like th’ innocent flower, But be the
serpent under’t'
- she appears the 'honoured hostess'
- Biblical reference to Adam and Eve
- she appears the 'honoured hostess'
- they seem innocent and completely loyal to the king, Duncan,
during his visit, but really they are carrying murderous
thoughts.
- Macbeth
- 'the false face must hide what the false heart
doth know.'
- appearing innocent and pleasant but with evil intention
- appearing innocent and pleasant but with evil intention
- 'the false face must hide what the false heart
doth know.'
- 'Look like th’ innocent flower, But be the
serpent under’t'
- Treason
- 'There's daggers in men's smiles'
- 'There's not art to find the construction in the face'
- Duncan- too trustworthy of his thanes
- Irony
- Irony
- Duncan- too trustworthy of his thanes
- 'There's daggers in men's smiles'
- Contrast and change in Macbeth's
character between the beginning at the end
- Light and darkness imagery
- antithesis
- 'stars, hide you fires, let not see my black and deep desires'
- 'stars, hide you fires, let not see my black and deep desires'
- antithesis
- Even you own mind can deceive you
- 'Is this a dagger which I see before me'
- confusion, uncertainty
- blood on his hands
- 'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?'
- 'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?'
- confusion, uncertainty
- 'Is this a dagger which I see before me'
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