Shakespeare's Macbeth

1. In Shakespeare's play Macbeth appearance is more important than reality. Many of the characters in this play are consumed with appearance and disregard the reality that is around them. The three weird sisters are apparitions and so that means that they are making people concentrate on appearance instead of the reality that is in front of the. "All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, the thane of Glamis!/ All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!/ All hail, Macbeth! that shalt be king hereafter." (1.3.48-50) these three lines may only be one small part of the play, but they are used to make Macbeth begin to see a blur between the line of reality and appearance. He is beginning to see that perhaps his appearance is something that is becoming more important that the reality around him.
2. In the play Macbeth  the role of women and men is clearly portrayed that women are the obedient and gentle beings and that the men do the fighting and more "manly" things. "Come, you spirits/ that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,/ and fill me from the crown to the top-full of/ direst cruelty" (1.5.39-42) in this line Macbeth's wife is talking and asking the spirits to give her a man's soul so that she may murder and hurt. You can see that Shakespeare was conveying his feeling that women are docile and the men are the dominating of the genders. As you can see that back when Shakespeare was writing this women were not expected to be able to do anything but domestic jobs. This transferred into his writing as there are several different examples of this later in his text.

3. In the beginning of the play Macbeth you see loyalty in Macbeth's wife. She is willing to help kill the king because she wants her husband to being and she herself wants to be queen. But she does not give up on him even when he gets unnerved and doesn't seem like he is going to do it. she sticks by him and makes sure he is going to go through with it. Also when you look at it it would seem that Macbeth is following the general idea of Machiavelli that you should be loyal to yourself for your the only one you can trust. You never know who might turn on you and so Macbeth kills many people who he believes might turn on him.