Blog: Fair is foul and foul is fair

"Fair is foul and foul is fair." -Macbeth

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair" is perhaps one of the most significant lines in Macbeth. It is a juxtapose (an idea that contradicts itself) and it is used to foreshadow the fact that characters in the play who seem to be good and righteous (Macbeth) may actually be tainted or evil, and vice versa.

Let me tell you a story wherein this line could be related....

Once I was lost in a place I'm not familiar with..

I'm still so young that time.

I don't know what to do and where to go.

I want to cry that time... But I told myself that I could do it.

I tried to find my Mom...

I walked in every direction of this unfamiliar place...

But no presence nor shadow of my mother I could see..

I look at all the people's face to ask if someone saw my Mom...

No one even dared to notice and talk to me...

They look good and fair.. They look rich and nice...

But my hope in them fade away as they ignore my voice...

Yes they look nice... and great ... but they don't have a good heart within them...

Seeing a child so helpless didn't even move their hearts...

They walk past me like I was just a foul and filthy air.

All good looking people are not that nice...

That is what I told myself that time....

Still my Mother can't be seen nowhere.

I felt fear that time that I won't be able to see my Mother anymore

Then my tears started to fall

I could not hold it back.

Still I could see blank faces of people walking by,

But then a stranger came...

He was an old man with a long curly hair..

I got scared by his features, 

and it made me cry more.

This old man laughed at me

But then he comforted me and told me not to cry and it's alright...

I started to realize that he is not a bad person...

So I started to calm down..

The old man carried me and he put me on the table where the announcers are

The old man told them that I am lost..

So the announcers started to tell my appearance... and they asked my name

A few moment ago the old man is not there anymore.

At first I thought he was a bad man...

But he helped me all the way long..

At that moment I realized,

Yes he looks like a bad person on the outside.

But deep inside he is a good person.. the only person who helped me..