Appearance and Reality

Question 1

What do the characters often do?

Answer 1

hide their thoughts and pretend to be something they’re not

Question 2

What is the quote where Lady Macbeth wants Macbeth to deceive everyone around Duncan’s death by being sweet?

Answer 2

“look like th’innocent flower,/ But be the serpent under’t”

Question 3

What does Macbeth know he needs to hide his murderous acts?
What is the full quote?
However what happens when Macbeth sees dead Banquo?

Answer 3

• a “False face”
• “False face must hide what the false heart doth know”
• his face is “the very painting” of his fear

Question 4

What is the quote where Duncan says it’s hard to see people for who they really are?
What’s happening when he says this?

Answer 4

• “There’s no art/ To find the mind’s construction in the face.”
• when he talks about the previous Thane of Cawdor who betrayed him

Question 5

What are used to create uncertainty - characters don’t know what’s real?
Give some examples.

Answer 5

• paradoxes
• “Fair is foul, and foul is fair”
• Nothing is/ But what is not”

Question 6

Which quote shows that Malcolm is sceptical about Duncan’s murder and knows what seem like friends can do?

Answer 6

“To show an unfelt sorrow is an office/ Which the false man does easy.”

Question 7

What does this quote show?
Who says it?

“There’s daggers in men’s smiles”

Answer 7

• that people hide their true intentions

- Donalbain

Question 8

What does Macbeth attempt to do whilst killing one of his guests (Banquo)?

Answer 8

“play the humble host”

Question 9

Which quote echoes what Duncan mentioned in Act 1 Scene 4?
Who says it?
When is it said?

Answer 9

• “Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.”
• Malcolm
• Act 4, Scene 3