Appearance vs Reality Flashcards
is this a dagger which i see before me
hallucinations showing how guilty he feels, he’s hallucinating the dagger that he killed duncan with. The rehetofical question can suggest he is asking someone the question , but who? the spirits, the devil?
to find the minds construction in the face
saying you cannot always tell what someone is thinking, suggesting anyone could be responsibke
stars hide your fires
Macbeth says this as he doesn’t want people to find out his dark thoughts about killing Duncan
look like thi innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t
Lady Macbeth telling Macbeth to hide his true emotions and lie about how he is feeling.
it shall make honour for you
Macbeth insists Banquo attends his banquet infront of everyone, pretending he wants banquo there but Macbeth knows he is not going to be there as he has ordered people to murder him
there’s daggers in men’s smiles
This quote suggests people are false, no matter what you don’t know other people as well as you think you do, people may be smiling but may also have committed murder
or art thou but a dagger of the mind
hallucinating the daggers with what he killed duncan with showing he is still processing if what he did actually happened- appears to be strong but realistically traumatised
what is’t that moves your highness
Macbeth is supposed to be playing it off ‘cool’ but is hallucinating banquo. the hallucinations of the dagger and ghost of banquo show his crumbling sense of reality even ‘brave’ macbeth cannot distinguish apprearance and reality- his disguise reveals itself through his morbid hallucinations
a heavy summons lies like lead upon me
Lady Macbeth has told Macbeth he has to act like ‘the innocent flower’ but he is already worried and can’t sleep because of what he is planning to do
my father as he slept i had done’t
Lady Macbeth is saying she would’ve killed him but he looked too much like her father, she appears to want ti get rid of her femininity and questions Macbeth’s masculinity but can’t get the courage to murder Duncan Herself, she also appears to be strong but realistically just thinks of excuses
i think not of them
Macbeth is lying, it appears as he is unbothered by what the witches said and isn’t thinking about it when in reality the thought of what they said and the thought of power made him commit a terrible crime
why hath it given me earnest of succes
the witches are supposed to be bad but have made incredibly good predictions for macbeth
how is appearance vs reality displayed in the play
hallucinations, great chain of being (when the earth shook), Duncan’s horses eating eachother
