appearances vs reality

• "This castle hath a pleasant seat"


  •Dramatic irony- audience knows Duncan about to be murdered
• "Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't"


  •simile

  •appear innocent to hide plans of murder

  •deceptive, unsuspected
• "Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses... I see thee still"


  •not sure whether dagger is real or not

  •hallucination
• "There's daggers in men's smiles"


  •Donalbain says people hide true intentions
• "Play the humble host"


  •pretend to be good host

  •dramatic irony-hired murderers to kill one of guests
• "False face must hide what the false heart doth know"


  •Macbeth must conceal true intentions (regicide)
• "None of woman born can harm Macbeth" / "Macduff was from his mother's womb untimely ripped"


  •Macbeth thinks this means no one at all can kill him (everyone is woman born)

  •Macduff= exception