In a world gripped by fear many will do any and everything to survive and to rule. Fear can become strong enough to take over and completely change a man’s demeanor. In some cases fear is an influence and a big factor in why individuals feel the need to act out of their character. This reliance in character may even include one to fake their true feelings and even lie. One of the major motifs that occurs in The Tragedy of Macbeth written by William Shakespeare is false faces and the effect it has on a characters conscience and overall manner that may change from a heart good heart to one of evil.

In this tragic play Shakespeare gives the readers a good sense of the true characteristics of each individual in the play. Macbeth, the main character in the play, is easily tempted into some evil schemes to please his ambitions to take the throne of Scotland. These false faces begin to occur in this play as Lady Macbeth charms King Duncan and fooling him into believing that she is just an innocent maiden that she seems to display. Lady Macbeth is the prime individual who tempts Macbeth into killing the king. Lady Macbeth explains to Macbeth “…look like th’ innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t” (1.5.62). In this part of the play is where the readers really see Lady Macbeth’s true colors as she convinces Macbeth to follow through with their evil plan. After being named the new Thane of Cawdor Macbeth becomes greedy for these positions of power. His ambition begins to overpower his conscience of goodness. Macbeth eventually once persuaded by Lady Macbeth comes to a conclusion that the quickest way to the throne is to kill King Duncan. Furthermore Lady Macbeth is represented as a false figure in this play because of her manipulative and deceiving characteristics. 

Power itself can seem so precious and to Macbeth it was worth killing for, to gain this rule and to not worry about what was standing in his way. Macbeth murdered many good men all for one purpose to please his ambitious greed and by fear he achieved this with the false faced lies. During the 11th century Scotland and England, Shakespeare wanted to incorporate many aspects into this tragedy. One which involved the occurrence of false faces which was shown throughout the play as a motif backed by fear. 

Blog 5/3

This weekend I went and saw Avengers with my boyfriend, Brian. I was really excited to go see it, I'm really into all the superhero action geek movies, anyway we wen to grapevine mall to check it out. We probably should have saw the earlier show  time at 5:30 but we were hungry and decided to see it at 9. That wasn't such a good idea because the movie was 2hrs and 21 minutes long and we were both really tired. But anyways I love the avengers and I love marvel I've seen all of the movies that have came out involving the avengers. Captain America, iron man, Thor, Hulk, and so on. I love action packed movies and even more action packed movies with hot guys who have super powers. Lol so we saw the movie, titled: Avengers Age of Ultron, I this is what I thought about it. Honestly I thought it was really kind of overwhelming and odd. I think that the story somewhat flowed but the missed a few parts and then they just tried to fit wayyyy too much information into that one movie. Likely shorten the movie, first scene the avengers are seen fighting in some country attacking bad guys then these twins withs superpowers show up out of no where no one even knows where or how they aquired their powers. Next the avengers are back on their grounds and iron man and the bulk, the brains of the team, decide that they want to create artificial intelligence, basically a robot with emotions feelings and thoughts like a human would. The experiment goes wrong then the robot, Ultron, is trying to take over the world. He steals this really powerful stone, uses it to create a body made from him and use it to create peace, which in his mind means the extinction of the human race. Then they go back and forth trying to keep the experiment from Ultron eventually the super human made from the magic rock it alive and turns out to be good, then Ultron still tries to wipe out earth then the avengers fight him basically the whole rest of the movies until he dies. Like you see there was just so much going on and you had to pay attention to many details. But besides all that I thought the movie was interesting and I'm probably going to have to watch it again. There were also some really funny parts in the movie that had the whole theater laughing😂