Appearance Vs Reality Macbeth Flashcards
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Intro
The contrast between appearance and reality illuminates the discrepancy between individuals’ external presentation and the physical appearance and behavior as well as the true essence of their internal nature and genuine intentions.
What is duplicity and what does it do in macbeth
- duplicity = 2 faced
- empowers certain characters to conceal their true intentions and manipulate others in the pursuit of their own personal power and selfish desires.
What does the play do in tearms of app vs real
Blurs boundries between illusion sand reality.
- begining the prophecys from the wiches interduce an enchanign deception that persists though the play.
What do LM and M do to cnceal there true intentions
- apply facades to conceal their true sinister, and unholy intentions.
Quote 1 for Macbeth app vs reality
“stars hide your fires let no light see my black and deep desires” (act 1)
Key analysis points for the quotation ( Stars hide your fires, let no light see my deep and dark desires” (act 1)
- motif of light and dark / light and dark imagery
-Rhyming couplet
how does the motif of light and dark link to the quotation “Stars hide your fires let no light see my black and deep desires”
- contrast between the ominous connotation of light an dark imagery. showcasing Macbeths “ DICHOTOMOUS ( Divided in 2) Character.
- Macbeth has this dark and depraved side to him yet he puts on this light and moral façade to society.
- Despite his projection of a virtuous façade of an upright Jacobean man, he harbours malevolent and tyrannical intentions.
- Macbeth wants to shroud his true intentions and sinister motives in a metaphorical darkness as if his true tyrannical intentions were discovered come to “light” this would obstruct him from carrying out his true ambitions. and usurping the throne.
What does the rhyming couplet show in the quotation “Stars hide your fires, let no light see my black and deep desires”
- Rhyme between “fires and “desires” this couplet has a resemblance to the enchanting spell casting techniques employed by the witches.
- The witches use rhyming couplets to accentuate their deceptions to manipulate others so they can get what they want.
- just like Macbeth here
- link to the wow that Snyder says it is Macbeth’s appalling duty because he knows here that it is wrong, as he said the stars to hide it.
emphasises Macbeth’s descent into a malevolent and tyrannical trajectory asking for his duplicitous intentions to be hidden so he can fulfil his ambitious egocentric desires.
App v reality quote 2
“I heard a voice cry “sleep no more Macbeth does murder sleep”
what are the 2 points of analysis for the quote “ I heard a voice cry “sleep no more Macbeth does murder sleep”
- recurring motif of sleep
- exclamative sentence
what does the recurring motif of sleep show for the quotation “i heard a voice cry sleep no more macbeth, does murder sleep”
Motif of sleep = innocence sleep = innocence and free from guilt
- disturbed sleep symbolises the departure from a state of innocence shown in both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth as they begin the descent into a carcass of insanity.
- Disintegration of innocence = directly linked to committing Regiside.
How is macbeths desent into madness evident and how is it shown
- he no longer issues imperative commands like “stars hide your fires.” Instead, he reflects on his mental anguish and haunting cries that torment his plagued mind.
what does the exclamative sentence show in the quote “i heard a voice cry sleep no more Macbeth does murder sleep”
” sleep no more” emphasises the sempiternal nature of Macbeths crime and loss of innocence.
His disruption to the natural order through his wickedness, masked by his façade of moral piety has forever condemned his mind to relentless torment of guilt here after.
- He will sempiternally battle with his moral relentlessness finding no relief, redemption or path to salvation due to the severity of his crimes.
