Macbeth

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in their castle to
“Your hand, your tongue: look like th’ innocent flower, but be serpent under’t.”
What this meant was that looked and talked like an innocent little flower, but under that fake mask he was an evil serpent.

I agree that Macbeth was unimaginative to a degree but then again he had an imagination because he saw the daggers before he killed King Duncan, and after he got Banquo killed he saw the image of Banquo in his seat. An example of this is stated here:

”Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch
Thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight, or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat oppressed brain?”

This is where Macbeth is imagining that there is a dagger in front of him. I think that this shows that he does actually have an imagination and sometimes it gets the better of him. Another example of ...

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