Macbeth and Bird Imagery
The False Appearances of Macbeth
False appearance turns out to be very deceiving because of the illusion that is created from how something appears to be, and then is contradicted by reality. People are always quick to judge someone from how they appear to be on the outside, but are not quick enough to see how they really are in the inside. People always put an image in their head of how a particular person is supposed to act only because of the way that person looks. At times, a person turns out to be the total opposite of what someone else predicted they would be. Shakespeare uses false appearance as his framework for his writing. He defines it by showing how circumstances throughout the story may appear differently than how they turn out to be in reality. Examples of false appearance in the play would be paradox, whereas in the story, there are events that end up contradicting each other. In reference to paradox, bird imagery would be another example because of how some situations are compared to birds. Lastly, male and female can also be define as an example because of the image that us human beings and Shakespeare himself have created to define a male and a female.
Paradox was used in the play as a way to add suspense in a twisted and manipulating way. The first time paradox was shown was when the three witches had met during a storm while they were talking about when they would meet again but with Macbeth. As the witches were leaving, they were chanting, “Fair is foul and foul is fair” (1.1.12). The witches know that they are foul beings because of the way they switch up things and by how they deliver their information but at the same time, they give fair advice. Macbeth had echoed the same line when he first appeared in the play but his interpretations were different from the witches. He meant it as, it was a foul day because it was raining and stormy but at the same time it was fair because he had won the battle against the King of Norway and Thane of
False appearance turns out to be very deceiving because of the illusion that is created from how something appears to be, and then is contradicted by reality. People are always quick to judge someone from how they appear to be on the outside, but are not quick enough to see how they really are in the inside. People always put an image in their head of how a particular person is supposed to act only because of the way that person looks. At times, a person turns out to be the total opposite of what someone else predicted they would be. Shakespeare uses false appearance as his framework for his writing. He defines it by showing how circumstances throughout the story may appear differently than how they turn out to be in reality. Examples of false appearance in the play would be paradox, whereas in the story, there are events that end up contradicting each other. In reference to paradox, bird imagery would be another example because of how some situations are compared to birds. Lastly, male and female can also be define as an example because of the image that us human beings and Shakespeare himself have created to define a male and a female.
Paradox was used in the play as a way to add suspense in a twisted and manipulating way. The first time paradox was shown was when the three witches had met during a storm while they were talking about when they would meet again but with Macbeth. As the witches were leaving, they were chanting, “Fair is foul and foul is fair” (1.1.12). The witches know that they are foul beings because of the way they switch up things and by how they deliver their information but at the same time, they give fair advice. Macbeth had echoed the same line when he first appeared in the play but his interpretations were different from the witches. He meant it as, it was a foul day because it was raining and stormy but at the same time it was fair because he had won the battle against the King of Norway and Thane of