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Appearance vs Reality - Coggle Diagram

- - - - the witches announce the theme in the first scene of the play: Nothing is as it appears to be
  - - - When Banquo and Macbeth first encounter the witches in the forest, Banquo notes the discrepancy between their appearance and reality
  - - - Banquo towards the witches
        
        Unlike Banquo, Macbeth doesn’t want to recognise the three witches as evil forces.
        
        The three witches are different for Macbeth from who they really are. It is Macbeth whom they manipulate because he is not what he appears to be. In reality, he nurtures destabilising ambition.
        
        At the beginning of the play, he is a glorious, brave, victorious general who is respected by everyone unquestionably but he is not what he seems to be.
        
        The very first differing degree of appearance and reality is spilt by the three witches. Whatever they predict isn’t what it sounds like. Their half-truth deceives Macbeth.
- - - - Lady Macbeth complains Macbeth of his transparent appearance
        
        she delivers the formula that “to beguile the time, look like the time.” She asks him to “look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.”
        
        Macbeth imbibes it very well.
        
        comparing Macbeth's face to a book
        
        in order for Macbeth's murderous plans to not be detected, he must act in a pleasant, kind and welcoming way to everyone, including King Duncan
        
        from then he successfully hides what he really is: his face is no more a book on which one can read the inner thoughts
        
        towards the end of the play, it becomes clear that the tragedy is coming from this flaw of not being able to see the true realities in the Witches predictions
        
        Macbeth is falsely lured by the second round of misleading apparitions
        
        from appearance alone, Macduff looks like someone who cowardly abandons his family but, in the end, he is the one who avenges and the order return to the hands of Malcolm
  - - - The reality is that assassins, appearing under the guise of convivial hosts, wait for him inside.
      - The Macbeths discover that the killing and deception cannot end with Duncan's murder, they will be required to murder others to achieve their goal of King and Queen. Immediately after Macbeth kills Duncan, the cover-up begins. Lady Macbeth instructs her husband to put on his night clothes so they will appear to have been sleeping when Duncan was murdered.
  - - - When Macbeth engages murderers to kill Banquo, he instructs them in the practice of deception
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