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Examples Of Deceptive Appearances In Macbeth

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Appearances being deceptive is a theme that runs rampant throughout William Shakespeare's Play Macbeth and the modern day advertising. Through the following points will be examples of people,things and ideas will be laid out and explained why they are considered to have deceptive appearances. “Fair is foul, foul is fair” (1,1,25L) is the phrase uttured by the witches in the first scene, this sets the mood for the whole play and the decisions made throughout.

Beginning with the most common idea’s or analogies being don't judge a book by its cover and don't judge a sweet by it wrapper. This explains and means that you can judge a person by looking at it or them. Just because a person looks nice and put together on the outside does not mean that they are a good person. Vise versa if a person looks bad or rough on the outside doesn't mean that they are ratty and bad on the inside. And the second analogy being the same, just because a sweet has a nice wrapped doesn't mean it is sweet on the inside and again that goes backwards. This relates to Macbeth in a few scenarios, first being the witches and their riddles being unclear and end up being not as glorious and great as thought to be when they were given. Second being when Duncan came to …show more content…

This helped Macbeth by making himself look less guilty and helped him in the deed of murdering the king because no one questioned what he was doing walking around, if it was any other person they would have been questioned. This is also the appearance of being “fair” when he had “foul” intentions. This appearance did not last forever and people eventually figured out the truth and exposed him for it. Macbeth was committing these acts under the influence of things looking fair but really being

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