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The Meaning Of Fair Is Fair And Foul's Fair Macbeth

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The third powerful explanation of paradox “Fair is foul and foul s fair” is that some people who appearances fair but their personality is foul. This explanation is important because it teaches us that do not trust people easily, there are many evidences to hold this idea. Have we even thought the personality of witches, are they good or bad? Just like Duncan said “there's no art to find the mind's construction in the face” (Act I sense 4) From many acts we think witches served for people to get what they deserve “All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!” (Act I sense 3) But the truth is that they dally with Macbeth for fun. After Macbeth becoming the king he asked them for fate the witches only told part of Macbeth’s fate “The power of man, for none of woman …show more content…

Another powerful evidence throughout all acts is the personality of Macbeth. In Act I of , Macbeth is a loyal, honest man. He serves Duncan, the king of Scotland, with complete and total devotion even his wife told him the plan of killing Duncan “We will speak further.”(Act I sense 5). But later when he became the king he wanted more power so he planed kill people who threaten him “Rather than so, come fate into the list, And champion me to th' utterance” (Act III sense 1) Macbeth allowed his evil nature to control his actions. By the end, Macbeth has degenerated into evil personified, totally inhumane in his actions.Different from Macbeth and witches, Disney utilized visible dramatic irony in the Lion King to illustrate the paradox that foul and fair on Scar. At the beginning, Scar showed his foul to the audiences that he planed a murder “Well,I was first in line until the little hairball was born.” (Scar), but he always resembled as a kind uncle when he stayed with Simba, “And he's absolutely right.” This sentence in Simba’s mind maybe is used to care about him, but in audiences’ minds Scar used another way to make a

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