Macbeth

Macbeth What Can You Really Believe: Illusion vs. Reality in Macbeth What is reality' Do you honestly believe that everyone shows his or her true selves openly' Think again! Many characters in Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, are two-faced. Two examples of these people are Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. These characters all put on false faces to impress people or hide things from people. The witches also kept repeating a quote that has a lot of meaning. They continued to say “foul is fair and fair is foul.” (I.i.12) This means that what seems right isn’t really right and what seems wrong isn’t really wrong. So the whole play is about false faces and how someone who seems normal and innocent isn’t really. The witches also seem to be an illusion. They are in a way human like, but at the same time they are also fake. They talked to Macbeth and told him three prophecies, which caused him to become greedy and kill King Duncan. The first time they told him what they saw was in Act 1. They said All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis! All hail, Macbeth! macbeth, sleep, king, witches, innocent, illusion, guilty, really, thought, reality, play, lady, isn’t, innocence, hail, become, wrong, woman, vs, time, thee, thane, seems, seemed, people, one, murders, means, man, made, little, kill, harm, foul, false