Macbeth - Act IV - Literature Log - #1 - My own insights from reading this section After reading this climactic portion of Shakespeare's enticing play, "Macbeth", I am filled with a plethora of different remarks and thoughts about several of the character's inner feelings and ambitions. It is not clear to the reader what the characters are actually expressing, but their feelings can be inferred from the surrounding text and the reader's basic understanding of …
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…overall primary theme in both the novel and life, just as Fair and Foul are Near of Kin does, as already mentioned in the Act I literature logs. The only thing that you can trust is yourself, and in certain cases, not even that (look at Macbeth's denial of his two contrasting personas). Ultimately, Shakespeare is remarking that, despite the sadness of not being able to trust anybody, never judge a book by its cover.