Macbeth Literary Analysis

Macbeth Literary Analysis (Apperance vs Reality)
Some people can be a completely different person outside and inside. Many will act in a particular way to fit and be accepted but when apart from their group they are their own person. Overall at the end of the day people take their masks off and show their true colors. This is what happened with some of the characters in William Shakespeare's Macbeth. This showed on Macbeth, Banquo and Lady Macbeth. We’ll see how these characters have images that alter as the story goes on.
Macbeth the protagonist of the story along with his friend Banquo encounter 3 witches who tell them about their future, explaining that Macbeth would become king. Macbeth gets so caught in this when the first prediction
Comes, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood. Stop up the access and passage to remorse,That no compunctious visiting of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between the effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts, and take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers, Whenever in your sightless substances You wait on nature’s mischief, Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark To cry “Hold!,Hold!”. (Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5). We can see here, how sinister the woman actually is. You wouldn’t expect a woman a “good host” to wish to be unsex so she can carry on wit her task. This is the ultimate “Appearance vs Reality” illustration. This is even more interesting because it’s a woman who has these thoughts. They were templated as kind and caring, that’s also another thing Lady Macbeth tells her that he hopes to only have kids because if she had a daughter she would not want her to be like Lady Macbeth. This isn’t as cospitous to the eye because only Macbeth witnesses the how vile his wife is. She also emasculating her own husband for not wanting to kill Duncan. “Lady Macbeth provides the missing necessity when she berates him, as only a trusted woman can with
We saw how characters showed their emotions from outside and what they really felt inside. We see how the characters acted the way they did and in the end they show we figure out how they truly feel. Appearance Vs Reality was a big theme, playing in a lot of characters and it’s just perfect because it fits the big characters in Macbeth. In the end we get too see everyone’s colors that being Lady Macbeth’s suicide meaning that she couldn’t handle what she had to become, Banquo dying with a honest heart staying true to himself, and Macbeth apologizing after everything he had