i agree with your ideas on the conrtast between reality and apperances. But some of us people do not hide their weaknesses instead we make them visible so when are weaknesses are used agianst us we are ready to counter using our strengths.( i am shure this does not only apply to me)
the major themes in all of shakespears play is appearance vs reality. <br>A few of the miriad of shakepear's reliance on a classic greek theme. <br>Romeo and juliet: the famous final scene at which romeo finds juliets body, which appears to be dead but she is in fact just sleeping due to the poision, he kills self as she awakens...you get the picture here.<br>Julius Caesar: multiple itterations here. Caesar believes brutus to be his most trusted advisor, and yet he is the one conspirator that firmly believes in the murder for "just" causes. A note on the just causes, what appears to be the will of the people in the letters to brutus turn out to be just lies by cassius to get brutus to their side.<br>
My senior high school English thesis was similar to this very topic. I tried to prove that the witches were not predicting the future, and that this whole sordid story evolved through inferrals, psycho-semantics, and sometimes very conscious decision making, all done through the heavy consultation of the witches' "predictions." I likened it to modern psychics, while consulting books on psychology, human nature, and even hypnotic theory. It was quite an interesting argument.
One element in the play Macbeth which was captivationg was the contrast of apperances vs. reality. It seems to me that when Macbeth decides to put his "fate" into his own hands he loses control of his own identity and establishes two seperate idenities. One being his conscinence self and the other his sub-conscience self. His conscience self (noble, honest etc) his what he wants to appear to be and his sub-consciece self (seeing the dagger, Banqo etc.) is how he really is emotionally. We see this also applies to Lady Macbeth and in someways to ourselves, because we stuggle to hide our imperfections and appear try to be stong and dignified.
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