On page 109-110 Drummond states “All shine, and no substance! [Turning to Cates] Bert, whenever you see something bright, shining, perfect-seeming—all gold, with purple spots—look behind the paint! And if it’s a lie—show it up for what it really is!” SOmething might be all good lucking and perfect but behind that is the complete opposite and needs to be shown. This quote is saying that not everything is what it seems. This quote is an analogy showing that their religion looks good but behind it, it is not what it seems.Drummond says this quote to brady before they went back to court, telling him that his religion is not all that it seems and he is going to show what it really is. In the play all the power was against Cates because Brady was …show more content…
I once bought an item in the mall where if u roll the ball the toy animals chases. I opened it and cut off all the tags and strings. When i turned it on i rolled the ball but the ferret didn’t chase it. So i looked at the box closely and saw that there was a string connecting it to the ball and it was really thin. “All shine, and no substance! [Turning to Cates] Bert, whenever you see something bright, shining, perfect-seeming—all gold, with purple spots—look behind the paint! And if it’s a lie—show it up for what it really is!”. Something might be all good lucking and perfect but behind that is the complete opposite and needs to be shown. This quote is saying that not everything is what it seems.Like how nobody liked Donald trump and his ideas or thought he would do anything but he actually was committed to doing them. Also like the toy I bought and how it looked cool but behind it was just a ferret stringed to a ball. In this play Drummonds quote basically means that not everything is what it
All things have an appearance, usually a good or a bad one. Depending on the appearance something has we form an opinion about it. Sometimes the appearance something has can mislead one in forming an accurate opinion about it. In Macbeth, Shakespeare shows us that things are not always as they appear to be. This is shown through the duplicity of Macbeth and his wife, the kings sons and the servants being blamed for Duncan's death and King Duncan's inaccurate opinions.
This quote was found on page 13, in the introduction when Harmon Gow is explaining to the narrator who Ethan Frome is.
Throughout chapter one of Fun Home, Alison Bechdel portrays artifice and art as two very similar but distinct things; both overlapping and making it hard to differentiate between what is what. Art, in her view, is the truth, and a skill that has to be mastered. On the other hand, artifice contains partial, or full, amounts of falsehood; it covers up the truth in some way but contains art in itself. Artifice can be, like art, something mastered, but can also be a coping mechanism to cover up something good or bad. Bechdel turns both art and artifice into a very interlinked, combined, version of the two forms. When truth and falsehood are combined, after awhile, it becomes a challenge to distinguish between the two; evidently true to herself.
Dunbar begins his poem by introducing the idea of deception through a symbolic “mask”. In the first two lines, Dunbar states “we wear the mask that grins and lies, / it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes” (1,2). These lines portray an image of a dishonest face partially because of Dunbar’s word choice and partially because masks have been used as tools of disguise throughout history. However, the lines
In the Visual Rhetoric of Macbeth, by Huston Diehl, he states that, “Duncan sees in the world around him only surfaces and appearances.” Th...
...ctably contradictory and base," (Biles, 2007, p.75) because even when we, as the viewer, are seeing something that is considered beautiful, in reality it is still hiding something ugly under the surface.
Have you ever noticed how authors turn a book into a classroom? In the novel, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck took readers through a journey of life lessons. He taught them the importance of friendship, the importance of having a goal, and he portrays how just anyone can struggle against loneliness. He used all the characters in the book to convey his messages to the readers. To sum up, Steinbeck weaved in many messages throughout his novel that allowed his readers to learn many lessons while reading. Let’s go more into detail on the lessons he really taught us.
While others in the novel point out Rosamond’s goodness, the narrator points out her flaws. An example of this can be seen in the passage while Lydgate is looking at Rosamond. The narrator does not speak about what Lydgate is feeling when he looks at Rosamond or how beautiful she is, instead they imply that Rosamond is manipulative. In an aside the narrator states, “Every nerve and muscle in Rosamond was adjusted to the consciousness that she was being looked at,” (Elliot 109). In this line the narrator the narrator infers that Miss Vincy is fake, in the sense that she puts forward a façade for other people to see. It is suggested that Rosamond is manipulating others by changing herself when they are watching. The narrator further implies this by saying, “She was by nature an actress of parts that entered into her physique,” (Elliot 109). By comparing her to an actress, the narrator insinuates that Rosamond is pretending to be something she is not. The citizens of Middlemarch see perfection and beauty, while the narrator sees manipulation and
An ominous presence looms as three witches appear from a mist emanating a feeling of darkness, destruction, and trickery. The sound of thunder numbs your ears while the light blinds your vision. Such is the familiar introduction of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The theme of Appearance vs. Reality throughout the play is presented during the exordium of the play and is first introduced by the Witches. After discussing their next meeting with Macbeth, they depart saying, “fair is foul and foul is fair” (1.1.12). Their words seem to contradict each other, presenting the conception of appearance versus reality. In other words, appearances are often deceiving and what appears to be good additionally be deplorable.
The theme, things are not always as they seem, is embodied in numerous works of literature, but perhaps, it is most blatant in Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth. Though the entire play is imbued with this theme of deception, it is more clearly crafted in three specific scenes; the dinner with the king, the acts of the witches, and the allusions Macbeth has.
Appearance versus reality is an important theme in William Shakespeare's ‘Macbeth’, and is used since it was first introduced in the first scene when the Witches says- ‘’Fair is foul, and foul is fair’’. This quote means that, good is bad, and bad is good, such as nothing is what it seems. Therefore, Shakespeare must have done it to tell us, audiences, through the Witches that it is world where you can’t trust anyone. Not even the Witches. But, due to this, the audience had an effect of no understandings thanks to the use words he, known as Shakespeare...
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair”; depicts that good is bad and bad is good. William Shakespeare’s Macbeth displays an interesting use of various themes. A theme that is used throughout the play is the contrast between appearance and reality. Similarly in the novel Great Expectations, Charles Dickens conveys the idea of deception as well. The authors demonstrate the idea of appearance vs. reality through crime, characters and through character’s ambitions.
The meaning of this motif is quite obvious in the very first act. Simply it means that appearances are often deceptive, and that things are different from what they appear to be. This line also points towards the play’s concern with the inconsistency between appearance and reality (“Fair is Foul”, 2015). The phrase appears at the start of the first act and scene of the play, uttered by witches; however, it lasts throughout the story with recurring themes of evil and deception disguised as ambition or good. The truth of this paradox is woven throughout the play, in how situations appear to be good when in reality they are evil. All people have the capability of being good and appearing evil as well as being evil and appearing good (Schlachter, n.d.). Macbeth echoes these words in Act I Scene II, saying that the day is both the fairest and the foulest he has encountered because,
Throughout the course of their life, every human being will experience a time during which they are deceived by what appears to be true, while there is an underlying reality that they are utterly unaware of. People use words, actions, and emotions to deceive people into believing they are genuine thus keep reality concealed. In William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, the dichotomy of appearance vs. reality is incessantly used to intensify the plot of the play. The characters are blinded by what they see to be true, making it difficult for them to be able to distinguish between what is actually real and what appears to be real. The detachment between appearance and reality all through Macbeth adds suspense to the play and deepens the drama within the plot.
A false appearance is like an optical illusion, the eyes ‘see’ something that differ from what it actually is. That is why one should remember that eyes are not always seeing the truth. In the play Macbeth, Shakespeare displays an important thesis regarding appearances. He makes a great statement of how a person can be easily deceived by a false appearance. A great character to be used as an example to portray the idea of deception by appearance is “ brave Macbeth” ( Macbeth I. ii.16). Macbeth is perceived by Duncan, the Scottish king, as a noble and trustworthy man, but eventually turns out to be a traitorous tyrant. Throughout the play, Macbeth tries to mask his “ black and deep desires” ( I. iv.50) from other characters, but the audience can see them through his thoughts and actions in soliloquies and monologues. However, sometimes it is hard to distinguish between what appears to be real and what actually is. That is why Shakespeare gives hints to the audience to guide them to the truth by foreshadowing, and by using the leitmotifs of masking and blood.