Appearance vs reality quotations✅

T d i m s

There’s daggers in men’s smiles

There’s daggers in men’s smiles

• This links to the serpent and flower, showing how LM and M have been hiding their true motivations and other characters are becoming suspicious

• Illustrates the theme of appearance vs reality

L L t i f b b t s u i

Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it

Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it

• Imperative shows how LM controls her husband

• Biblical connotations of betrayal and sin

• Shows how they are concealing their true natures behind a facade of innocence.

M o f v t o h

Make our faces vizards to our hearts

Make our faces vizards to our hearts

• Vizards = part of helmet that hides the face so has imagery of battles

• Illustrates appearance vs reality

F f m h w f h d k

False face must hide what the false heart doth know

False face must hide what the false heart doth know

• The juxtaposition between “false face” and “false heart” highlights the divide between someone’s outward looks and true nature.

F i f a f i f

Fair is foul and foul is fair

Fair is foul and foul is fair

• Hints at the reversal of values to be exhibited later on in the play

• Diametric idea shows the duality between good and evil