macbeth
... "Your face, my Thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters"(I,vi,73-74) Lady Macbeth uses this simile to explain to Macbeth how it is very visible what he is thinking and planning on his face. Lady Macbeth explains that he will need to hide his feelings (so not everything is what it appears) for the murder of Duncan to be successful. ... (II,ii,78-81)" Macbeth speaks these lines after the murder of Duncan. ... (Nature is disrupted and Macbeth’s crime is so large even an ocean could not clean away his blood. ... ” (I, vi, 87-89) This quote is an example of theatrical irony because the audience knows Duncan is about to be murdered in Macbeth’s castle.