Macbeth
In Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, the theme of appearance versus reality was very relevant and important throughout the entire play. The theme relates to many of the characters in the play. They seem like truthful, trustworthy people, but really most of them are conniving and deceitful people. The appearance of a person is sort of like a first impression or a judgment of a person. On the other hand the reality of a person is the actual person or meaning of the person. Shakespeare uses this theme of appearance versus reality in many of his plays to prove the audience's first impression of characters wrong, and to keep the audience on the edge of their seat. Macbeth, the main character of the play, is a very good example of the theme throughout the entire play. Macbeth's appearance is that he is one of King Duncan's most loyal generals and that he is a very truthful man. The reality of the situation is that Macbeth wants more than anything to be th
Other characters that depict the theme of appearance versus reality, are Malcolm and Lennox. These are King Duncan's sons, and once King Duncan was murdered everyone assumed that his children did it because they were the only one's with anything to gain by the killing. The two young men fled the country realizing what everyone's thoughts were. Their appearance to both the audience and the other characters in the play was that they murdered their father and fled the country, in order to avoid the consequences. The reality of the situation is that Macbeth killed King Duncan because he knew that Malcolm and Donalbain would flee the country and he would become king. The two young men fled the country not because they killed their father, but because they knew that everyone in Scotland would assume they killed their father and therefore they would be killed. Another important character in the play, which exemplifies the theme of appearance versus rea
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