Appearance v Reality

Cards (15)

  • Fair is foul and.......
    Fair is foul and foul is fair
  • Stars, hide your fires, let.........
    Stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires
  • Look like the innocent flower, but........

    Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it
  • There's no art to find.......

    There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face
  • There's daggers in.........

    There's daggers in men's smiles
  • Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?........

    Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
  • Unsex..........

    Unsex me here
  • Come to my woman's breasts and...............
    Come to my woman's breasts and take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers
  • Yet do I fear thy nature, it is.............
    Yet do I fear thy nature, it is too full of the milk of human kindness
  • False face must hide what...........
    False face must hide what the false heart doth know
  • Fair is foul and foul is fair. (Duality & Technique & Context & Effect)

    Duality: Good & Evil, Appearance & Reality

    Technique: Metaphor

    Context: Witches planning next place to meet each other and Macbeth.

    Effect: The quote implies that good is bad and bad is good. It highlights that fact that appearances are often deceptive, hiding their true intentions.
  • Stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires. (Duality & Technique & Context & Effect)

    Duality: Good & Evil, Appearance & Reality

    Technique: Personification & Metaphor

    Context: Malcom has just become the prince is Cumberland. Macbeth is talking to the audience (aside) saying that he either has to step over him or give up because Malcolm is in the way.

    Effect: Macbeth is calling on darkness/hell (evil) to hide his true dark desires from the light/heaven (good) but also his conscience.
  • Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it. (Duality & Technique & Context & Effect)

    Duality: Good & Evil, Appearance & Reality

    Technique: Simile & Metaphor

    Context: Lady Macbeth is telling Macbeth that in order to not be suspected of murdering King Duncan, he must make sure that he acts in a very specific way.

    Effect: Shows that appearances can be hidden behind an act or "mask", hiding their true desires.
  • There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. (Duality & Technique & Context & Effect)

    Duality: Good & Evil, Appearance & Reality

    Technique: Metaphor

    Context: Duncan and Malcolm talking about the execution of Cawdor.

    Effect: Describes the possible difference between a person's pleasing appearance and the reality of their wicked nature and that there is no way of knowing what someone is thinking just by looking at him.
  • There's daggers in men's smiles. (Duality & Technique & Context & Effect)

    Duality: Good & Evil, Appearance & Reality

    Technique: Metaphor

    Context:

    Effect: