Think of a person you know who acts one way when he or she is with a group of people, but acts very differently when you’re with him or her in private. Describe how this person acts in public or private, and explain why you think he or she wears such a mask sometimes- why not be yourself at all times?
Act one contains many quotes that address the idea of false appearances. Find two quotes, put them into your own words, and explain how they relate to the theme of appearance v. reality.
My friend is very honest and a polite person when he is just with me and my friend from swim. As soon as he gets around other people or my friends, he completely changes. He is very rude and I don't want to be around him. In MacBeth, Act 1, Scene 5, Lady MacBeth says, "Your face, my thane, is as a book where men may read strange matters. To beguile the time, look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't." She is instructing MacBeth to be evil but hide is face. With some people, it is easy to tell when they are not themselves. It just seems forced. People like this are fake and other people tend not to be around them and avoid them. Act 1, Scene 6, Lady MacBeth greets the king with, "All our service in every point twice done and then done double. Were poor and single business to contend against those honours deep and broad wherewith your majesty loads our house: for those of old, and the late dignities heap'd up to them we rest your hermits." She is acting very polite towards them and making a kind facade just to lure him into the house. People may but on a fake face to hide to truth or if they feel the need to fit in. Using one of the faces is only right if it protects someone.
ReplyDeleteWhen in public, this person is loud and obnoxious and is always trying to get people to laugh at his mean jokes. This person also is rude and always tries to be something that he is not. When in private, he is always considerate and polite. He just is his normal self. I think that some people hide behind a mask when they want to appear better or cooler to other people. Sometimes it is hard to stay true to yourself when you know that you might be judged or made fun of. The mask that some people create allows them to hide behind their flaws or what their afraid of so that way they don’t get judged or laughed at. On page 13, Ross states, “’…The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict, till Bellona’s bridegroom, lapped in proof, confronted him with self-comparisons, point against point, rebellious arm ‘gainst arm, curbing his lavish spirit; and to conclude, the victory fell on us.’” Ross is talking about Macbeth and how amazing he was on the battlefield. Macbeth seems to be noble and strong. Macbeth turns out to be greedy and want more power. The hero of Macbeth is not whom he necessarily is later on in the story. On page 33, Lady Macbeth says, “’Yet I do fear thy nature. It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way.’” It would seem as though Lady Macbeth thinks that her husband is too good and kind and that he should not be murdering the king. Later on, she embraces the idea and actually pushes Macbeth to kill him.
ReplyDeleteThe person I have in mind is sweet and polite when it is just us and a few other close friends. Then, whenever there are others around, she is obnoxious and trying way too hard. I don't understand why, but I would guess it is to try to gain popularity and change her image. In Macbeth, page 35, Lady Macbeth says, "Your hand, your tongue; look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't. He that's coming must be provided for; and you shall put this night's great buisness into my dispatch, which shall for all our nights and days to come give solely sovreign sway and masterdom." She is acting very malicious and creepy when they are alone, telling Macbeth to kill King Duncan, and yet when she goes to greet the King, on page 39, she acts humble and sweet, saying, "Your servents ever have theirs, themselves, and what is theirs, in compt, to make their audit at your Highness' pleasure, still to return your own." Basically, she is saying she is his humble servent and would do anything for him. That side of her truly conflicts with her private self, to me at least. I believe that the first quote is Lady Macbeth's true self. You cannot act that evil without being truly evil, whereas anyone can act sweet with a little effort.
ReplyDeleteWhen there are only a few people around this person is very sweet, he seems nice and genuine. Although, with a larger group of people he seems to get a big ego and acts completely different. I have no idea why this person becomes so different. Perhaps with many people he realizes girls like him and thinks he is too good for everyone else. During Act One Scene Four Macbeth is talking to King Duncan about becoming the Thane of Cawdor. Macbeth states, "The opportunity to serve you is its own reward. Your only duty, your highness, is to accept what we owe you. Our duty to you and your state is like the duty of children to their father or servants to their master. By doing everything we can to protect you, we’re only doing what we should." Macbeth makes it sound like he is truly honored to be serving the King. He is putting on an act for King because earlier in Act One Macbeth is contemplating whether or not he should murder the King in order to fulfill the withches' vision. Later on in Act One Scene Five Lady Macbeth states, " Bear welcome in your eye,
ReplyDeleteYour hand, your tongue. Look like th' innocent flower, But be the serpent under ’t." During this part of Scene Five Lady Macbeth is telling Macbeth they will trick the King. She tells him to welcome the King in all ways possible and to look as innocent as a beautiful flower however; underneath she wants him to be wicked like a serpent.
One friend of mine is really cool and nice around me, we get along really well. The qoute in Act 1 Scene 2,"The multiplying villianies of nature/ Do swarm upon him" reminds me almost too much of her. When other people come around that aren't close friends, she totally flips into this, "Oh I'm so cool" type person just to impress. She's one of those people who just want other people to notice her in most cases. In Act 1 Scene 5 Lady Macbeth says, "Your hand, your tongue. Look like th' innocent flower,/ But be the serpent under 't," This qoute makes me want to laugh...as weird as that sounds. My friend is the opposite of this qoute, where she talks big, but doesn't actually know how to "walk the walk," She's always saying how she did this and that and how awesome it was, but then when I want to do something a little daring or along the lines of, she freaks out and get's all scared. So she really is a girl of multiple persona's.
ReplyDeleteI know all about one of my best friends and anything that is going on in her life that is bugging her, but she hides that from everyone else. She is nice to everybody, but she doesn't talk to them like she talks to me. She hides what is going on in her life because she doesn't want people to pity her, and she doesn't want them to think of her differently because of what she is dealing with. She changes from someone in a real life situation with strong feelings, needs and wants, to someone who tries to please others more than herself. The quote from Scene 5 in Lady Macbeth says, " To alter favor ever is to fear." I think this means changing face is out of fear. My friend relates to this because she is changing how she looks depending on who she is with because she is afraid of judgement. In scene 6 Lady Macbeth says, " Against those honors deep and broad wherewith/ Your Majesty loads our house." To me, this means King Duncan has brought honor to Macbeth and his wife with his presence. Lady Macbeth is putting on an act for the king in order to pull him into a trap. She is pretending to gush when her real wish is to kill the king.
ReplyDeleteMy friend is really cool and nice when hes with me. He isn't mean but is still funny. Then when hes around his other friends he changes his humor to mean and degrading stuff. I think people change their personality to fit in. You shouldn't do this because if your friends don't like the real you then they aren't true friends. In the book Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth to "look like the innocent flower but be the serpent underneath." This is tricking the king into thinking everything is okay when he is really about to die.
ReplyDeleteI have a friend that around his friends in school, he act gangster-like, but around me and other groups of people, he acts quite normal and nice. I think that's due to the fact that he tries to blend in with his school friends.
ReplyDeleteIn Act 1 Scene 5, Lady Macbeth says, "Your hand, your tongue; look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't." This is a great example because she is telling Macbeth to act all nice and warm but be mean and cunning underneath. She's basically saying appear one person on the outside, but be another on the inside.
Another similar situation is in Act 1 Scene 6 where Lady Macbeth says, "Your servents ever have theirs, themselves, and what is theirs, in compt, to make their audit at your Highness' pleasure, still to return your own." She speaks humbly but is hating every bit of it on the inside, as she is just saying this for added effect to keep him in the dark about what is going on. She intends for this to sound appealing to the king so that he will be comfortable and unsuspecting of the horrors that await him.
A girl who used to be my best friend seemed as if she almost had two different personalities. When we would hang out with everyone at school; epically boys she would act stupid for attention. She would also say things that would get her noticed. Somethings that she would say would be rude and demeaning to a person or very inappropriate but knew that it would get others to laugh. When her and I would just hang out together for a sleepover she would act very different. She would actually be very intelligent and tell me everything she learned from school that day. She would also become very nice and didn't case about what anything others said about her. During Act 1 Scene 5 Lady MacBeth says, "Your hand, your tongue; look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't." She is basically saying that your outer appearance looks as innocent but on the inside you are as evil as a serpent (snake)" Appearance vs. Reality is that on the outside they are totally different than they appear. You may look nice and innocent and cute on the outside but on the inside you might be vile, evil, and foul. In Act one Scene 4, Duncan said, "There's no art
ReplyDeleteTo find the mind's construction in the face:
He was a gentleman on whom I built
An absolute trust" He is basically saying that anyone can put up a fake appearance and it is hard to tell it's not real. He was someone i thought i could trust. Appearance vs. reality would be that at first the man looked nice and innocent, he was a gentleman and seemed trust worthy, however he became a traitor.
There is this guy who, when it is a one-on -one situation, is really nice and cool and considerate, but when there are multiple people around, he puts on this weird tough-guy persona. It's sort of obnoxious, actually. Anyway,in act 1, scene 3, Banquo says to the witches, "My noble partner you greet with present grace and great prediction of noble having and of royal hope, that he seems rapt withal. To me you speak not." This means that the witches gave this fantastical prophecy to Macbeth, but wouldn't talk to Banquo. They appear to like Macbeth more. In act 1, scene 6, Lady Macbeth says to King Duncan, "...against those honors deep and broad wherewith Your Majesty loads our house. For those of old, and the late dignities heaped up to them, we rest your hermits." She is pretty much saying how honored she is that the King is in her home, and how she could never repay him, when just a little while ago she was laying out a plan to murder him! Because that makes so much sense...
ReplyDeleteI had a friend that acted completely different around certain people. The way she acted different was almost in every manner. She acted different by her timidness, her jokes, if she was a leader or a follower, and if she talked bad about other people. If she was close with a group she was much more loud and funny but in a different group, even when she knew people but she wasn’t that close, she was much more timid and quiet. All these change in her reminds me of the quote in scene 1 act 5 “To alter favor is to fear.” I think this means she wants to somewhat change how she acts around certain people so she will fit in and in hopes that people will like her. In some groups she would also gossip but in others she would not. The quote “Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t” in scene 1 act 5 is relevant to the gossiping part. To some people she seemed sweet and innocent, like the flower, but once you saw her in a different group you saw how mean she could be, like a serpent.
ReplyDeleteMy friend is super sweet when she's around only me or even a small number of people. However, in large groups she gossips about everyone and everything. She also becomes very boy crazy and somewhat shallow. I think that she does this because she wants to make herself fit in. Also, she might want to look like she's better than everyone else when on the inside she's really afraid to let her true colors show.
ReplyDeleteIn scene 5 line 75, Lady Macbeth said "Your hand, your tongue; look like the innocent flower. But be the serpant under't." She is saying that Macbeth may come across as having good motives and super sweet but he's really not like that on the inside. He was secretly plotting against the king. This idea ties into the theme because he made people believe he was someone else. He put on a false persona.
On line 48 in scene 3 Banquo says "You should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so." Women weren't allowed to act in plays during the Elizabethan period, so men played their parts. This is a more physical interpretation, trying to be seen as women; while in reality they're men.
This person is very smart, sweet and nice when they are around me or around adults and then when it's a group of people they turn really rude and act dumb to get attention. I think they wear a “mask” sometimes so people will like them more. When Lady Macbeth is talking to Duncan and she claims that nothing she or Macbeth can do will be equivalent to Duncan’s kindness. When really she is plotting to murder him and keep him from power. Another time a false appearance is brought up is when Duncan calls Macbeth very noble and it turns out Macbeth is planning on murdering Duncan.
ReplyDeleteI know others who act very differently in different situations. For instance, when they are around adults or a different group of friends, they may show off a little more or partake in differing activities. But when there with other friends, they may hold back a little from what they truly enjoy because they’re worried about what others will think, or their trying to make themselves look better (or worse) than they really are.
ReplyDeleteIn scene 3 lines 150-168, we read Macbeth’s thoughts after he learns the first of the witch’s prophecies has come true. He talks to himself about his “horrible imaginings” and “my thought…[of]…murder”. He clearly desires to become king, even through ignoble actions such as murder. However, when he’s talking to Banquo, he says “If chance will have me King, why [it will] without my stir” (scene 3 Lines 165-168). He’s saying that if he will become king, it will be by luck and he won’t have done anything unordinary to bring that crowning upon him. Also, late in scene 5 he talks with Lady Macbeth, who begins hinting that she wants to murder others for Macbeth to become king. His response is very short, “we will speak further”, indicating he doesn’t want to show even his wife his true intentions.
One of my best friends puts on a fake mask all the time when she is around other people. She acts stupid to get attention, and I don’t like it. She also insults me and acts like she is better than me. I don’t understand why she can’t be herself in public because if I like her the way she is, others will too. In Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 6, Lady Macbeth says to King Duncan, "...against those honors deep and broad wherewith Your Majesty loads our house. For those of old, and the late dignities heaped up to them, we rest your hermits." Lady Macbeth is suggesting that it is wonderful to have the King in her home, but prior to that she plotted to kill him. I think she is wearing this fake mask because she didn’t want him to suspect anything. In Act 1, Scene 5, Lady Macbeth says, "Your face, my thane, is as a book where men may read strange matters. To beguile the time, look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't.” Lady Macbeth is telling Macbeth to be a nice, loving, innocent person on the outside, but stay evil on the inside.
ReplyDeleteI have a friend who, when it’s just me, him, and a couple of other friends is really nice and sincere to everyone; a cool guy. When larger group of kids comes by, he totally changes his personality to one where he is obnoxious and impolite. I think he wears this mask sometimes to attract attention to himself. He wants to be the center of attention essentially. Being obnoxious and impolite makes him the center of attention. My first quote from Macbeth is “To beguile the time, look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue; look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t,” Act 1 scene 5. Lady Macbeth is telling Macbeth to kiss up a little bit to Duncan at dinner but, at night he will kill Duncan and no one will suspect anything. Lady Macbeth is basically telling Macbeth how to kill King Duncan. Putting on this fake “kiss up” attitude is common among people today. Especially in big corporations so that someone can get a promotion or a bonus. Sometimes people go overboard and shoot themselves in the foot and are labeled a kiss up. My second quote is “Were poor an single business to contend against those deep and wherewith your Majesty loads our house. For those of old, and the late dignities heaped up to them, we rest your hermits.” Act 1 scene 6. Lady Macbeth is saying that she is not worthy of the king or his generous deeds. She is also saying that they are forever in debt to the king because of what he has done for them. This shows the other side of the coin that is Lady Macbeth. She is being really nice to the king and saying that they are in debt to the king forever basically a lot of fake stuff. This attitude is put on so that they can convince the king nothing out of the ordinary is happening. It is a façade to her real personality.
ReplyDeleteMy best friend is a very out going person and easy to get a long with in person and when she is around people she knows. Unfortunately, when she is around unfamiliar people, she gets really self conscience. Around me, she is laughing, smiling and enjoying her surroundings. Ever since we have gone to different high schools, my other friends that attend the same school, notice she's acting different. They tell me she's really quiet and not the type to laugh at all. They also say she worries too much about if people will accept her for who she is.
ReplyDeleteI think the reason anyone would act different in person or away from their personal surroundings, is because they fear not being accepted or what their other friends will think of their actions. There should be no reason to hid who you really are, otherwise, who could you trust? In Macbeth, Lady Macbeth welcomes King Duncan very politely, when before she talked to the evil spirits and Macbeth about killing him. Earlier, Lady Macbeth tells him his appearance look sweet and kind, while inside your evilness can be compared to a serpent. Here this compares appearance to reality. The change in the personalities also can challenge the system and bring unexpected change.
I have a friend who I feel I can say anything to. But when we are around some school friends, she transforms into someone I don't recognize. Sure, my fun and considerate friend is still there, but she is hidden behind this "go with the crowd" type person. Sometimes, this person seeps into the private friend I like to talk to. As she grows closer to her school and sport friends, I find she and I grow farther apart. I think she "wears this mask" because she wants to be with the "in" crowd, almost like she's afraid she's too weird or different. But I've learned over the past 14 years that it's good to different. I'm weird and I proudly show it! I just wish my friend thought that way too.
ReplyDeleteIn "Macbeth", there are many cases like this, where someone is one way in private, but completely different in public. One example is on page 39, when Lady Macbeth is talking to King Duncan. She says how honored she is that the King is staying in Macbeth's castle. But in private, she is talking with Macbeth about murdering the king because Macbeth is going to be king. Whoa! This is very contradictory. Lady Macbeth must be a good actress if she can hide her true feelings and thoughts.
Another time when reality is opposite of public appearance is on page 29. Macbeth says to the king, "Our duties are to you throne and state children and servants, which do but what they should by doing everything safe toward your love and honor." Macbeth here is saying that he is loyal to the king and is honored to be his servant. But in Macbeth's mind, he is contemplating the witches' prophecy how he would be king, and Macbeth plans to make that happen, even though he must go against what he just said here. Also, he plots with his wife against King Duncan. So, in his exterior he is a loyal servant of the king, but on the interior he is a conspirator, intent of getting what he wants, thinks he deserves.
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ReplyDeleteI know a girl who is very popular and on. The classic blonde hair, blue eyes. When she is with me she has no care in the world, she is herself; however, when she is with her group of friends she acts like she is better than other people and feels like she has to give into peer pressure just to be the cool girl in school. I believe that she puts this mask on in front of other people because she is worried about people seeing her flaws, and she is worried about not keeping her social status. Everybody thinks she is gorgeous and I mean everybody. Lady Macbeth says, “’yet I do fear thy nature. It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way.’”-Page 33. This relates to Macbeth because she is fearful how people will perceive her if she is not perfect, while with me she is happy-go-lucky and not fake. Another quote in Macbeth, "You should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so.” Besides the humor behind this quote it shows how everyone is human and makes mistakes, but this girl seems not to make any mistakes. So how can you be human if you are so perfect. Being perfect isn’t everything. Masks are ugly. They make people ugly too.
ReplyDeleteWhen my friend is around a big group, she has the appearance she needs to be the leader, have control, and maintain control but it is very rare that she will actually act this way when it's just us hanging out and talking. I don't know why this is because she is the funniest and most relatable person ever, one on one, but with others, it's hard to say it stays the same. I think this may be because she sees it as an opportunity to lock in friendships while determining who really runs the group, where as when we are alone, she doesn't feel obligated to be the best and be perfect. In Scene 4 of Macbeth, Duncan says, “There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face: He was a gentleman on whom I built, an absolute trust.” To me, this interprets that; you can’t identify what the person may be like with others through their face. This relates to my friend because you can’t tell just by looking at her that she might act a certain way with one person and another way with multiple people in the room. Also, in Scene 5, Lady Macbeth states, “Only look up clear; To alter favour ever is to fear.” To give my meaning of the fragment, I think is defines that changing the way people see you or if you change something about you that people liked, people do it because they are afraid of bad comments to their actions. In other words, they are scared that different people will react in different ways by the way they act all the time. In reality, one might act differently to different people because of the vibe others give them. It appears as though it is a bad thing, but maybe it’s the resources that make them act a certain way.
ReplyDeleteMany of my friends have different actions in different surroundings. In a large group, they tend to follow the more popular people. They will do whatever that more popular person does. I guess that it is a thing of wanting to be more popular. When they are with a small group of friends, they are more individual and won't follow someone around. However, like myself, my friends act differently around adults. We act more polite. I do it to show respect to them, and I suspect that they do it for that reason too.
ReplyDeleteMany quotes could be found in act one of Macbeth that pertain to the difference between appearance v reality. One of these was spoken by Lady Macbeth when she said, "look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't." She was saying that he must appear to be innocent and a good man to hid the snake that is within him. It is necessary that he hides his true intentions for the plot to succeed. Another one of these quotes was also stated by Lady Macbeth when she said, "Your servants ever have theirs, themselves, and what is theirs, in compt, to make their audit at your Highness' pleasure, still to return your own." Here she is saying that she and her servants are Duncan's for the time that he is there. She put on an innocent mask to disguise her true thoughts to kill him so her husband could become King. Appearances are different than reality in some cases, which can be very dangerous.
I know this person who, around strangers, especially at work, is the perfect person. When the weekends came, they went to parties, fished, and did other activities that most people never knew that they did. This person behaved so well at work because that is how they thought they were supposed to act. When they went to parties or family get togethers, it was because they wanted to have fun.
ReplyDeleteIn scene 4, lines 25-30, Macbeth basically states that his loyalty is all for King Duncan and that he labors to protect King Duncan and his family. Later when Macbeth steps aside, he tells himself that he is the one who is worthy of the crown. Macbeth also says how he hopes that King Duncan is oblivious to the evil behind his mask or any notification of the plot that is formulating in his mind.
In Scene 5, lines 84 and 85, Lady Macbeth tells her husband that she will take care of all of the details for him. She also tells him that he should not worry about anything and that she will make sure that the plan is executed as planned. In scene 6, whenever Lady Macbeth talks to King Duncan, she speaks in a cordial tone and pretends to be the perfect hostess for the king.
In both situations, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have proved that people are not all who they seem to be when people meet them. Many people hide their true identity behind their masks. Even though some people may not appear to be who they are, masks can fall off.
I used to be friends with a girl who would usually act very sweet and nice around others, but when it was just her and I she would often become cruel and critical, often dropping subtle hints that she thought herself superior to me or just coming right out and saying something to that effect. By acting kind in front of others she was able to manipulate people, and she usually got her way.
ReplyDeleteIn act 1, scene 6, Duncan says "This castle hath a pleasant seat. The air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself unto our gentle senses." Basically, he's commenting on ho lovely Macbeth's home is, and it's ironic because this is the place in which an untimely death has been planned for him.
In scene 3, Macbeth and Banquo see the witches' prophecy as silly and false in the beginning, repeating their predictions in mocking tones. But when Ross and Angus approach with the new that Macbeth has been named Thane of Cawdor, they begin to believe that there may be more to the prophecy than they first suspected.
I have a friend who is really loud and funny around his friends, but as soon as an adult is near he is very polite and articulate. I think he does this so that he makes a good impression on adults so that they will like him as a kid, but with his friends they know what he is actually like so it doesn't matter.
ReplyDeleteIn ACT 1 scene 5 lady Macbeth says,"Your hand, your tongue; look like the innocent flower. But be the serpant under't." This is saying that you Macbeth must look like a very good person in-front of the king, but as soon as he turns his back he should become evil again. In scene 6 " Against those honors deep and broad wherewith Your Majesty loads our house." even though our house is deep with bad fortune the king will come because it looks and sounds like a good house, but he will die there.
My friend is a very funny person at all times, but sometimes his humor can vary depending on who he is with. When he is with me he says things that are generally funny but when we are in groups he can tend to put people down. When Macbeth claims that he will serve and support the king in everything he does is completely false because even though he says that he will honors the kings decisions, deep down he is very frustrated that Malcolm is the Prince and not him. Another time when someone puts on a mask is when Lady Macbeth claims that Macbeth deserves to be king but really she just wants to be queen for her own selfish reasons, its not really about Macbeth. I think people sometimes put on masks for power, money, and sometimes like in my friends situation to gain more respect. People also sometimes have low self esteem and tend to put on masks in order to seem like everything is okay.
ReplyDeleteIn the past, I knew a boy that wanted to live up to his father's expectations involving the sport of football. The father was a star in high school and continued to play in college; he was the quarterback and coached his son’s football team. In public while the father was happy, the son masked his sadness because he didn’t want to disappoint his father, and he was nervous what his father might say if he told him how he really felt about the sport. It was a mental tug of war for the son. In private he would go somewhere inside his house to be alone and think about what he should do. He didn’t know who to be between the great football star that he felt he needed to be for his dad, or the brave young man that he needed to be for himself. From the outside, it looks pretty easy to decide which choice that he should make, but it took him quite a while to muster up the courage to tell his dad about how he felt about football. His father wasn’t mad at all that he told him how he felt. The dad was actually glad that his son told him. A weight had been lifted off of the son’s shoulders and he was thankful for it. I don’t think that the boy wanted to be himself at all times because he was self conscience of what his family might think of him, and especially about living up to his father’s high school glory days, and it was killing him inside. At the bottom of page 17, Banquo said to the three sisters, “You should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so.” In the story it creates the image of curiosity to the audience because women don't usually have facial hair on their chin, but in reality they had to hide that woman weren't allowed inside the theater to perform rolls. The second quote was at the top of page 25 when Macbeth said, “Whose horrid image soth fix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs againest the use of nature? Are less than horrible imaginings.” The quote was from a section when Macbeth was struggling with himself in order to decide whether or not to kill King Duncan. Therefore, he was struggling with himself and although he is supposed to stay loyal to the King, he might kill him to get the power he was foretold. It was the mental tug of war that most people experience one day or another. If anyone is ever stuck in a mental tug or war I would say pick the side that would make them happy and not somebody else.
ReplyDeleteOne of my friends is super sweet and compassionate and caring when one on one, but when she gets into a group of people, it's like she has to prove herself. She brags a lot about what she has done, and buries her brags in comments about other people, for example: "I can't believe you did that!! I did that too when...(fill in with long story)" It's really annoying to be around her because when I tell people she's my friend, they wonder why I would be friends with her, because all they see is the Obnoxious her, not the Sweet her. I think that she feels insecure and not good enough (which is totally not true), and I think her nervousness and awkwardness comes across as arrogance. In Act 1, Scene 6, Lady Macbeth is talking to Duncan. She says, "Your servants ever have theirs, themselves and what is theirs, in compt, to make their audit at your highness' pleasure, still to return your own." Basically she's saying that she is pleasured to have him over at her house, while in reality, she's about to murder him! She is putting on a fake attitude about Duncan just so that he doesn't know her plans. In Act 1, Scene 4, there is not a specific quote, but the whole scene where Macbeth puts on a mask of naivety, so that the reader knows that Macbeth thinks he shall become the heir, but Duncan does not know that. So when Duncan announces Malcom as the heir, Macbeth has to work hard at keeping his disguise on so that Duncan does not know. I think in this instance, Macbeth keeps his disguise because he wants to find out information and he wants to be deceptive.
ReplyDeleteOne person in mind, happens to be one of my friends from middle school. He tended to be a very nice and trustworthy person when in private, since you could tell him important things and he would listen or things like that. However, in public he completely changes towards acting "cool" to impress girls or become popular. This was definitely unexpected but I've learned to never trust people for what they seem to be but who they truly are. In "Macbeth" many points came up in scene 5 with Lady Macbeth who says,"Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me, from crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty!" shows the complete opposite of her sweet gentle self, while the other text says,"To beguile the time, look like the time;bear welcome in your eye,...but e the serpent under't." This shows that Lady Macbeth has that hidden trait of cruelty and deception shown upon Macbeth to slay the king, to appear kind and gentle and make his way to the "top" to eventually become a traitor to the king (thus to kill him). So, it can be shown that Lady Macbeth can truly be described as insane in a private sense, yet noble and sweet to the public eye.
ReplyDeleteOne of my best friends certainly fits their criteria. Around me she is very courageous, entertaining, funny, and caring. Though around other people and groups, she becomes very quiet and reserved. She is more careful as to what she says, she also doesn't act much like the person that I have always known her to be. I think that this person sometimes wears a mask because she can be very self-conscious and is almost scared of what others think of her. It seems as if she really cares about what others think about her and even if she doesn't like them, she wants them to like her. On page 37 Lady Macbeth stated, "'...and you shall put this night's great business into my dispatch, which shall to all our nights and days to come give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.'" This statement completely contradicted what Lady Macbeth said on the next page which was, "'Your servants ever have theirs, themselves, and what is theirs in compt, to make their audit at your Highness' please, still to return to their own.'" Basically what the first quote means in my mind is that Lady Macbeth is telling her husband to leave that nights events to her and she is going to kill the king. But the second text when she is talking to the king himself, she is very sweet and basically saying that she will take care of him to his fullest wishes while he is staying in her and her husbands home. Obviously quite a contradiction going from saying she is going to kill the man to taking the humblest of care to the same man.
ReplyDeleteOne person I knew was very nice away from school, polite to my family, and quite pleasent to be around. However, at school, she completly changed and became rude, mean, and sadistic, as she liked to mock people, including me. In Macbeth, in Act 1, Scene 4, when Duncan tells Macbeth and Banquo that Malcolm is to be the Prince of Cumberland, Macbeth acts happy about it to Duncan and Banquo, but secretly, he says to himself "The Prince of Cumberland! That is quite a step!" This shows that Macbeth is secretly jealous and mad about Malcolm's new title, but appears okay with it to Duncan so that he does not arise suspcions about his real desire to become king himself. Also, in Act 1, Scene 5, when Macbeth comes home and is talking about how Duncan is coming to visit them later that night, and Lady Macbeth is talking about murdering him, she says "O, never shall sun that morrow see!", in reference to her plan to kill Duncan, and by doing so, she is saying that he won't see the sun tomorrow. This shows that she has a hidden agenda, and even though she acts like she is a polite, caring person to Duncan, secrertly she has a hidden agenda to have Macbeth become King by murdering Duncan, showing that she is a cruel, deceptive person underneath her act of benevolence.
ReplyDeleteOne of my very best friends is always so genuinely sweet and caring but when she's around other people or big groups, she becomes an obnoxious person. She is constantly trying to impress people by bragging about what she has done or is doing. Whenever someone trys to say something about themselves, she cuts them off and brags more about her life. I think this she puts on this blunt and obnoxious mask because she's afraid people won't like her if she truly opens up. I think she is super self-concious about who she truly is and needs to realize that people love her for it. It's weird because no one really likes the mask she puts on. Everyone talks about how obnoxious and annoying she is and questions my friendship with her. I know this is bad, but sometimes, even I'm embarassed to be her friend because of her actions. I wish she would just let her true self shine. On page 38, Lady Macbeth says, "Your servants ever have theirs, themselves, and what is theirs in compt, to make their audit at your Highness' please, still to return to their own." This quote really shows how people can act differently when around other people. Lady Macbeth was acting very sweet and honoring King Duncan when just a page before that, she was telling Macbeth that she would murder the king. On page 37, she says, "...and you shall put this night's great business into my dispatch, which shall to all our nights and days to come give solely sovereign sway and masterdom." Lady Macbeth was telling Macbeth that she would do whatever it took to bring him to the throne. Instead of the kind, sweet, and mannerly front she put up for King Duncan, she was secretly a crazy, scheming, and evil woman. She went from promising death and summoning evil spirits to providing the best service and care to her arriving victim. I believe she put up this mask so that no suspicions would arise. She wanted to complete her ambitious and evil plan without any obstacles in her way. Both these quotes show the great irony of this scene and show that Lady Macbeth isn't truly the person everyone thinks she is.
ReplyDeleteSomebody I know can be very different around other people and sometimes its actually frustrating. When it is just us two, we have a lot of fun, but I also feel like I can tell them anything, but around other friends it's almost like were distant. It is not that we are around other people, it is more that she acts like a different person who I feel like I can't talk to and also acts very careless. Not only in real life, but in Mactbeth several characters act like they are two different people at times. In Act 1 Scene 4 when King Duncan informs Macbeth he will be staying with him, Macbeth states, "I'll be myself the harbinger, and make joyful the
ReplyDeletehearing of my wife with your approach; so, humbly take my leave." Here he is
saying how he will send a wonderful note about King Duncan about to stay with
them when really as soon as he getshome, he is planning King Duncan's murder. Also Lady Macbeth shows a multi-personality when she gets Macbeth's letter. In Act 1 Scene 5 she says, "Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way," speaking as if her husband
could never murder the King because he is filled with too much good. However,
in her next conversation with Macbeth, she is telling him he should do it, they
should do it, and it seems as though she never had a doubt in her mind. Hidden
personalities can be found everywhere, from Arapahoe High School to the cities
of Scotland back in the Elizabethan Era, yet it seems no matter where these
people are, their personalities can change in an instant.
My friend is fun to be around and is an overall nice guy but when he is in a group of friends he will try to stand out and his personality changes. I think he acts think way because it is popularity and he wants them to feel like he's cool. In the book Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is similar to this. When in a group with the king, she is polite, but when she talks directly to Macbeth, she is evil. Macbeth is similar in this way too. He hides his evil and desire to become king inside of him but what people know him as is a hero and very noble.
ReplyDeleteI know a girl who is very sweet and kind in private, but she's really arrogant, rude, and mean in public. When she's in front of her friends, she'll find any way to insult me, but she's so wonderful when she's not in the presence of friends. I get the feeling that they're pressuring her to be someone that she's not. But if she can't be herself around them, then maybe she should find some other friends to hang out with.
ReplyDeleteI know a person who is nice in public, but is really mean when she is just around me. She puts on a good face in public, but she is terrible to me. I think she puts on this mask when she is in public because she wants other people to think she is nice and she wants them to be her friend, but she thinks she doesn't need to be nice to me at all. Lady Macbeth says, "Have theirs, themselves, and what is theirs, in compt, to make their audit at your Highness' pleasure, still to return your own." She says this to King Duncan, but moments before, she was plotting with her husband so they could kill King Duncan. Lady Macbeth has the same kind of mask that the girl I know does. She is really nice in public, but really evil one on one. Macbeth has two sides to him as well. Macbeth says, "The service and loyalty I owe, in doing it pays itself. Your Highness' part is to receive our duties; and our duties are to your throne and state children and servants, which do but what they should by doing everything safe toward your love and honor." Macbeth is being really nice to King Duncan right now, but he knows he is going to kill him in order to get the throne. Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, and the girl I know all have two sides to themselves. They are nice in public, but in private, they are mean and evil.
ReplyDeleteThis person often hides behind a mask of when in public, but is generally nice in private. He/she is often showy, trying to impress the other people in the group. In private, they are generally more kind and don’t try things that they can’t do. Also, when they are in public, they will do basically anything for attention. They are rude, hurtful, and otherwise disagreeable to be with because they think putting you down will push them up. In private, they don’t have to worry about being better, because they see themselves as same. In Macbeth act 1 scene 6, Lady Macbeth says to Duncan “Against those honors deep and broad wherewith your majesty loads our house.” This relates to appearance versus reality because she is pretending to be happy to have them staying at the castle but she is actually plotting to kill him. In act 1 scene 5, Lady Macbeth also says “look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t.” She is saying that Macbeth should act innocent and good, but inside he should be the attacker, the creature to kill him. I noticed that it was Lady Macbeth who wrote said both of the quotes, so maybe she is the most twin faced.
ReplyDeleteOne of my friends makes a goof of himself in public, however he acts very differently when I'm with him or when he is alone. In public he tries to make everybody laugh by being the center of attention. He tries to make everyone laugh at him or with him. When I'm with him he is the exact opposite, he is very quiet and keeps to himself. He doesn't try to make anyone laugh. He just does what amuses him like daydreaming and peaceful outdoor activities like fishing. I suppose he wears this public appearance because he wants attention and doesn't know how to get it. He also may not feel comfortable with his private attitude.
ReplyDeleteIn Macbeth, a false appearance is already developing for a couple characters. Early in the second seen the king comes to find a wounded soldier and he asked how the war was progressing and he spoke of Macbeth's great heroism. He led his soldiers in to a battle with great odds against him and he came out victorious. However he might have been a hero, he will here a prophecy from a group of witches and he will be made King. This changes his private appearance, he wants to become king and will murder to king to do so. His attitude will change from heroic to murderous. Lady Macbeth also has a wild array of moods in public and private. She is insane in private. She was wanting God to bless her with the power to murder the king. She is completely mad in private. Later she is very polite in public, she kindly let in the king and Banquo. She was a very kind person and you would never expect her to be insane and murderous.
I am friends with a girl who talks to me about anything to me when we are alone. We are very close and hang out a lot. But when we are around people she doesn't even act like I am alive. She must think she is to cool for me when I am with my friends. She has to mask her true self so people will not judge her. In Macbeth, there is a line, "For in my way it lies. Stars hide your fires." This is Macbeth showing how he must keep his anger in control because he did not become King. To get what he wants in the future, he must lie. Lady Macbeth says,"Your majesty loads our house." "We rest your hermit." She is showing another side of her wanting to have the King in her castle. Instead she wants to kill him.
ReplyDeleteI am friends with someone who is cool, kind, and funny when she is around me, but when she is around other people she acts rebellious and sometimes mean. I think she wears this mask to make herself feel popular. She may not understand that if she just acts like herself, people will love her. In Macbeth, Angus says, "Who was the Thane lives yet, But under heavy judgement bears that life which he deserves to lose." This quote means that the Thane committed treason and deserves to die. This applies to my friend because she can make bad decisions sometimes, but is truly a kind person. Also, Macbeth says, "Let not light see my black and deep desires." This quote means that Macbeth is hiding his plan to kill Duncan. This quote applies to the way my friend acts because she does not show her feelings when she is around other people. She may want something, but hide it. My friend is a great person, but she often uses a facade to hide who she truly is.
ReplyDeleteMy brother, ironically, is much nicer when he's around me, but when he's with his friends, he becomes a class act jerk. I'm not sure if he thinks his friends like being harassed or smacked on the side of the head, but it's a mystery to me how he can retain even one friend. I think though, he really does like his friends (I mean, I hope so) it's just that he may not know how to show it, or he just likes me better than all the rest of them.
ReplyDeleteThere is a quote in Macbeth that I may be interpreting wrong, but it's when the witches say "Fair is foul, and foul is fair." This to me rings with the idea of everything is not as it seems, sometimes even the opposite. So could my brother really be a jerk and just put on a pretense for me? Or is it vice versa? Another quote that would demonstrate appearance vs. reality would be when Lady Macbeth explains to her husband, "Who dares receive it other/As we shall make our griefs and clamor roar/Upon his death?" By this she means, if they put up this facade of mourning King Duncan after they kill him, all of the blame will go to the servant whose knife they will use. Again this shows nothing is as it seems, and perhaps in our attempts to make the truth show in an opposite light, we over compensate, and overreact. Like perhaps my brother is an extreme jerk to his friends because he really likes them. Who knows?
I have the one friend, when he is around me, he is likable and kind, but then when he gets around all of his friends, he starts to gang up on me and other kids. People just to this to fit in with the crowd and are afraid to be called out on looking different. Things looked different for Macbeth and the King in this quote: "look like the innocent flower but be the serpent underneath." The view varied between Macbeth and the King because on Macbeth's side, it was all peachy and wonderful because he was about to become the king, and on the King's side, it looked glum because he was about to die and lose his life. "Who dares recieve it other...as we shall make our griefs and clamor roar...upon his death?" By this, Lady Macbeth means that after they brutally murder the king, they will simply put on a mask of the entire situation and blame it on their servant. This realates to my friend because he tends to put on a mask when he is in uncomfortable situations.
ReplyDeleteI would like to express my condolences to Heidi (two above me), because my brother is the same way. Only difference- when he's around his friends, he beats ME up. It may not be physical- but he makes snide comments about me, or "teases" me. But when we are at home, or alone, he is usually much nicer. Generally, we are friends. In Macbeth, Lady Macbeth says "Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark/To cry 'Hold, hold!'" (Shakespeare I, v, 59). In stating this, Lady Macbeth makes it obvious that, not only is she two faced, she KNOWS that she is two faced, and in fact, is that way on purpose. In this way, she is unlike my brother, who most likely does not intend to change his attitude towards me when around his friends- he just does. Later in Macbeth, Macbeth himself states "Golden opinions from all sorts of people,/Which would be worn now in their newest gloss,/Not cast aside so soon" (Shakespeare I, vii, 37). Here, Macbeth describing one reason why he has a facade in the first place- to keep his honor. At the time he said this, he was being honored by the King. People thought well of him. If they know he was plotting to or had killed Duncan, then their new found respect for Macbeth would fly out the window. Macbeth wants to keep the facade up so that he will not be dishonored. The same probably applies to my brother in many situations. He does love me- he just thinks that if his friends knew how he normally acted around me, they would cease to like him. I do not know if this is true, but its a theory, right? Why else would he be so mean to me? I know he loves me...
ReplyDeleteI have a friend who is really a great person, but tends to let me down sometimes because of the way he acts around me in public. He's really cool and pretty friendly when we are with a smaller group of friends or when we are away from school, but he can sometimes be a real jerk when we are in public. There have been times that he has gone without speaking to me or even saying hello, just because he's in large group or at school. It really enrages me, but I guess this is the kind of power that peer pressure can hold for some people. Truely, I think there have been times for all of us that we have put on a "phony" face just so we can look cool or be popular.
ReplyDeleteOne quote from act one that really strikes me is, "The raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements. Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts..." I think this quote sticks out to me because it really shows how far Lady Macbeth will stretch to get the power that she wants. She is willing to step out of her kind ways- to talk to spirits! Another quote that really shows how desperate Lady Macbeth can be is, "Art thou afeard to be the same in thine own act and valor as thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, and live a coward in thine own esteem, letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' like the poor cat i' the adage?" Basically, it seems as though Lady Macbeth begins to criticize Macbeth, just because he begins to have second thoughts about Duncan's murder. She even goes to call him a coward- which seems rather harsh considering the fact that Macbeth is her husband. Again, Lady Macbeth is so power-hungry that she acts ways and does things that eventually she will later want to take back.
This person will be completely herself and be crazy, fun and not hold herself back when it's just our group of friends but when she's with other people she acts more cool and doesn't show her real personality. She may do this because she wants to be considered popular or cool to others. In Macbeth Act 1, Scene 4 Macbeth says to King Duncan "The service and loyalty I owe, in doing pays itself. Your highness' part is to receive our duties; and our duties are to your throne and state children and servants, which do but what they should by doing everything Safe toward your love and honor". When Macbeth says this he is trying to gain favor with the king though secretly he does not really feel that way. He is also saying that the king does not owe him anything even though Macbeth wants the king’s power. This relates to my friend because she will do things to gain the favor of others sometimes even if she doesn’t really mean it. Also, in Act 1, Scene 6 Lady Macbeth says to the king "All our service In every point twice done and then done double Were poor and single business to contend Against those honours deep and broad wherewith Your majesty loads our house: for those of old, And the late dignities heap'd up to them, We rest your hermits". In this quote Lady Macbeth is telling the king that he is welcome in her house and that she and her husband are grateful to him but really they are plotting against the king. The girl I know would sometimes say things she didn’t mean to someone to gain their trust or friendship.
ReplyDeleteMy friend is someone who is crazy, whinny, childish, and full of complaints. When we're not at school,. she acts like a ball of monkeys on caffeine but at school, she's quiet and she acts cool. Since I am a very intimate person, being touchy is no big deal at all, and I'm pretty sure she doesn't mind me bursting her bubble since our friendship has been around for a long time. The only thing is, at school, she hate intimacy. I think the reason why she masks her personality is because frankly, it's embarrassing. In Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 4, Macbeth replies to the king "The rest labor, which is not used for you. I'll be myself the harbinger, and make joyful The hearing of my wife with your approach; So, humbly take my leave." Macbeth shows no fury but pleasure when the king announced that his son is to be crowned prince. This shows that Macbeth his his true face with a mask of loyalty and kindness when really, he is not. He hides behind the mask hiding his true intention to the killing of the king. Also, in act one, scene 7, Lady Macbeth argues with Macbeth, ".....That you break this enterprise to me?...." Lady Macbeth hides her true intention of wanting Macbeth to be king and instead uses the excuse of a promise. She masks her true intention of power for him with broken promises.
ReplyDeleteI love my best friend with all my heart, but when it comes to being real she is honestly not the best. When we first met each other we promised that we would always be real and we would call each other out if we were being annoying or dishonest, it helps to keep our relationship strong. But when I ask her if she is angry she just blows me off, and when it comes to other people her persona completely changes. She talks all ridiculous and cool when there are other people around but when it’s just the 2 of us she is very kind and down to earth. I just wish she was more like Lady Macbeth as weird as that sounds, lady Macbeths a psycho but at least she acts like it.
ReplyDeleteThis person will wear a mask to be a popular sports person when in public, but when with me, his real self is brought out and is completely different. He does this to preserve his "popularity status" with others. In Macbeth, Act I, Scene 2, The Captain talks about brave Macbeth killing Macdonwald on the battlefield, when later, while Macbeth is going to kill Duncan he's questioning his bravery to do so. This shows that while in front of others he's more ready to impress than reality. In scene 4, Macbeth is hiding his dark and ambitious desires to be King while in front of others, when with Lady Macbeth, he lets his ambitions rise to full power. These both excellent examples of masks people can wear.
ReplyDeleteI know a girl who changes personalities with every group of people she is with. When it is just us, she is very nice and I feel like I can talk to her about anything. But when there are more people, she acts really outgoing and crazy, and it seems like it is just to get attention. Sometimes she can just be mean. Because of this, I find it really hard to trust her with anything now. It is hard to tell if people are friends with you for the right reasons when they change who they are every other day. I think this girl really relates to the characters in Macbeth because in Act 1, scene 5, Lady Macbeth says "O, Never Shall sun that morrow see!". She is saying that she hopes that Duncan shall not live through the night, or that darkness should hide her deeds. Either way, she and her husband plan on murdering the King in their own home. However, in Act 1, scene 6, Lady Macbeth says to King Duncan, "All our service In every point twice done, and then done double, Were poor and single business to contend". She is telling the King that nothing she nor her husband can do will ever match Duncan's generosity towards them. This relates to my friend, because she can be very sweet and compassionate to me, but I know she talks behind my back, and says things that aren't right. People might wear these masks because they are afraid of what people may think of them. They may only show their true feelings and emotions to certain people, because they know they wont be judged. But once someone else comes along, they feel that they need to act differently.
ReplyDeleteI've been friends with this girl for years now. She’s a great person when she’s just around me, but when she gets in a group of people she’s so different. She turns into a total jerk, calling people names and making fun of how someone may look that day. She’s looking for attention, but she’s getting the wrong kind. Negative attention isn’t good for anyone, especially not in high school. I don’t even know if I can trust her with things anymore. This reminds me a lot of Lady Macbeth in Act I. scene 7 she said, “What cannot you and I perform upon the unguarded Duncan? What not put upon his spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt of our great quell?" Earlier in this act Lady Macbeth had been hospitable to Duncan, but now she is planning on killing him. In Act 1 scene 6 she had shown kindness toward Duncan, “All our service in every point twice done, and then done double, were poor and single business to contend." She is telling the king that nothing can compare to the honor that he had brought upon their house by staying there. This is a lot like my friend one moment she will be the nicest person you could even meet, but in the blink of an eye she will stab you in the back if it will give her a better advantage. It isn’t good to be judgmental of other people, but it doesn’t make sense why anyone would change themselves just to get a little higher up in life. This relates to both my friend and Lady Macbeth because they both are wearing masks to suppress their actual emotions.
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