True Personality In Macbeth

Appearance constantly shows up in America today. People will go out of their way to buy fancy clothes to project an image of themselves that does not fit their personality. Although this happens many want to show their true personalities, they tend to shy away from people and terrified of showing their true nature. Just as in Shakespeare’s plays Macbeth and Hamlet many of the characters struggle with showing their true personality. Shakespeare strives to show through these plays that it is not always what is on the outside of a man, but what is on the inside. Whereas in Macbeth many of the character’s were once a great people until the play started to come to an end. Macbeth subsists to be a very noble leader to King Duncan. The witches prophecies drove him into becoming

Hamlet takes on an antic disposition when a character goes mad, or psychopathic in a play. But in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, he uses it to make the main character pretend as if he is going insane to find the truth about his father's death. Hamlet says “ But come Here, as before, never, so help you mercy, How strange or odd some'er I bear mysel. As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on That you, at such times seeing me, never shall, With arms encumb'red thus, or this headshake, Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase, As "Well, well, we know," or "We could, and if we would," Or "If we list to speak," or "There be, and if they might," Or such ambiguous giving out, to note That you know aught of me this do swear, So grace and mercy at your most need to help you.” (Act 1,scene v,168-180)These lines show the plan of Hamlet and how him using the antic disposition to fulfill the ghost request of avenging his father’s death. Shakespeare also uses a play within in a play to convict king Claudius. Hamlet will know if the ghost was right, that Claudius did kill his