Question

In the play Macbeth, Malcolm says, " Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, Yet grace must still look so." What does that mean?

Answer 1

It means that things usually aren't what they seem to be. 'The brightest fell' - Lucifer was the brightest angel, yet he fell to hell and became quite the opposite - the Devil himself. And nobody expected that would ever happen, but it did. The same way nobody expected Macbeth to be what he turned out to be.