1. Shakespeare asks many questions throughout Macbeth. One question he asks is how far corruption can go before it gets put to an end? Throughout the book it shows how Macbeth becomes unstable to fit his roll on the thrown. He becomes more and more insane and begins to completely destroying his own kingdom. The point where he falls is at the peak of his stubborn insanity which is shown on page 173. "I will not yield/To kiss the ground before young Malcom's feet/And to be baited with the rabble's curse." Another question that Shakespeare asks is if people can change the course destiny for there own personal benefit? Macbeth was so ambitious and focused on getting what he wanted, he didn't even realize the damage he was doing. He tried to change the future but he couldn't do it at all. The harder Macbeth tried to change destiny the more of a mess he got himself into. He finally realized after he murdered Duncan that he should just give up and turn himself over to Destiny becuase he realized what terrible things he had done. This is shown on page 53 in act 2 scene 2. "To know my deed, 'twere not know myself."
2. Macbeth never realizes the mess he has gotten himself into and even when he is about to die, his enraged, power-drunk self becomes so utterly mad that he cannot even think about what he is doing. Corruption can get to a point where people have destroyed everything around them. And if they still don't realize what they have done then it is put to an end. Shakespeare also confirms that destiny cannot be changed. Everything the witches foretold came true, no matter what Macbeth did to stop them.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Macbeth LRJ act 5
1. A theme in act 5 is that fate cannot be changed. Everything the witches foretold ended up happening, no matter what people did. Macbeth tried so hard to change his fate but no matter how hard he tried he couldn’t change it. Another theme is that corruption leads to loss. Macbeth became overly ambitious and began to become ruthlessly insane. He just didn’t want to stop no matter how far he got. Even when he was in too deep he didn’t pull out, he just kept on going. This overly ambitious attitude is shown on page 157. “I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked./Give me my armor.” His mad and ruthless reign began to destroy his kingdom and everything became a disaster for Macbeth.
2. At the beginning of act 5 in scene 1 a great deal of lightness and darkness is shown. this describes the character and informs the reader what is going on with more detail. Much of this lightness and darkness is shown in the conversation between The doctor and The gentlewoman on page 149. Doctor: “How came she by that light?” Gentlewoman: “Why, it stood by her. She has light by/her continually. ‘Tis her command.” Doctor: “You see her eyes are open.” Gentlewoman: “Ay, but their sense are shut.” This shows the description of Lady Macbeth. She may appear to have a light and kind heart on the outside, but on the inside she has something deep, dark, and treacherous to hide. This pattern is shown throughout act 5. Characters are perceived through the images which Shakespeare puts on a particular person.
2. At the beginning of act 5 in scene 1 a great deal of lightness and darkness is shown. this describes the character and informs the reader what is going on with more detail. Much of this lightness and darkness is shown in the conversation between The doctor and The gentlewoman on page 149. Doctor: “How came she by that light?” Gentlewoman: “Why, it stood by her. She has light by/her continually. ‘Tis her command.” Doctor: “You see her eyes are open.” Gentlewoman: “Ay, but their sense are shut.” This shows the description of Lady Macbeth. She may appear to have a light and kind heart on the outside, but on the inside she has something deep, dark, and treacherous to hide. This pattern is shown throughout act 5. Characters are perceived through the images which Shakespeare puts on a particular person.
Macbeth LRJ act 4
1. The scene with Lady Macduff shows Ross reassuring Lady Macduff that Macduff had fled only for the best. She is paranoid because she has no husband at home and doesn’t know what to do. A messenger comes in and tells her that her, and her son, should leave immediately. Before they can escape murderers break into the house and kill Lady Macbeth and her son. This shows how ruthless and ambitious Macbeth is for sending these murderers after Lady Macduff. She doesn’t even have anything to do with Macbeth but he kills them anyways. This shows how far he is willing to go to get what he wants.
2. This scene shows that Macduff wants to overthrow Macbeth so badly that he would leave his wife and his child just to do this. He is acting just as ambitious as Macbeth is. This ambitious characteristic is also shown when Macduff is trying to convince Malcolm to overthrow Macbeth with him on page 129. “Let us rather/Hold fast the mortal sword, and like good men/Bestride our downfall’n birthdom. Each new morn/New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows/Srike heaven on the face, that it resounds/As if it felt with Scotland and yelled out/like syllable of dolor. Just as Macbeth, Macduff will stop at nothing to get what he desires.
3. Macbeth is getting extremely ruthless with an utter desire to harm people. He is getting more violent and will not stop at anything. There was no reason to kill Lady Macduff and her child, yet he carried through with it anyway because he is growing more and more mad. His demanding reign is shown on page 117. “Then live, Macduff; what I need I fear of thee?/But yet I’ll make assurance double sure,/And take a bond of fate. Thou shalt not live,/That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies,/And sleep in spite of thunder.”
2. This scene shows that Macduff wants to overthrow Macbeth so badly that he would leave his wife and his child just to do this. He is acting just as ambitious as Macbeth is. This ambitious characteristic is also shown when Macduff is trying to convince Malcolm to overthrow Macbeth with him on page 129. “Let us rather/Hold fast the mortal sword, and like good men/Bestride our downfall’n birthdom. Each new morn/New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows/Srike heaven on the face, that it resounds/As if it felt with Scotland and yelled out/like syllable of dolor. Just as Macbeth, Macduff will stop at nothing to get what he desires.
3. Macbeth is getting extremely ruthless with an utter desire to harm people. He is getting more violent and will not stop at anything. There was no reason to kill Lady Macduff and her child, yet he carried through with it anyway because he is growing more and more mad. His demanding reign is shown on page 117. “Then live, Macduff; what I need I fear of thee?/But yet I’ll make assurance double sure,/And take a bond of fate. Thou shalt not live,/That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies,/And sleep in spite of thunder.”
Macbeth LRJ act 3
1. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth start to change drastically in scene 2, Act 3. Macbeth begins to become paranoid and cautious about everything after killing Duncan. He starts to regret killing Duncan even more. This is shown on page 83. “Ere we will eat our meal in fear and sleep/In affliction of these terrible dreams/that shake us nightly. Better be with the dead,/ Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace,/Than on the torture of the mind to lie/In restless ecstasy.” The relationship between the two is only getting worse. They are keeping secrets from one another and it is weakening. Lady Macbeth is just feeling awful and depressed even though she is queen. She acts like she has nothing to live for and seems insecure. It appears all of her happiness is missing as shown on page 81-82. Naught’s had, all’s spent,/where our desire is got without content./’Tis safer to be that which we destroy/Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.”
2. An image pattern that is shown throughout act 3 is the description of blood. This shows graphic images and makes the play seem more realistic. It puts emphasis on events that happen to show the importance of what has happened. This is shown on page 89 when Macbeth says, “There’s/blood Upon thy face.” It is also shown on page 95. “Blood hath been shed here ere now.” This shows how Macbeth is escalating in violence and is becoming more ruthless and insane. He is slaying people more violently and is basically losing his mind in power.
3. Ambition seems to be the greatest theme in this story, for Macbeth is on a murder spree and nothing can stop him except for his own death. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth just need to think things through but they don’t and they continue to rush into things with great ambition. They are too hungry for power and don’t realize that they are only digging a bigger whole for them to climb out of.
2. An image pattern that is shown throughout act 3 is the description of blood. This shows graphic images and makes the play seem more realistic. It puts emphasis on events that happen to show the importance of what has happened. This is shown on page 89 when Macbeth says, “There’s/blood Upon thy face.” It is also shown on page 95. “Blood hath been shed here ere now.” This shows how Macbeth is escalating in violence and is becoming more ruthless and insane. He is slaying people more violently and is basically losing his mind in power.
3. Ambition seems to be the greatest theme in this story, for Macbeth is on a murder spree and nothing can stop him except for his own death. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth just need to think things through but they don’t and they continue to rush into things with great ambition. They are too hungry for power and don’t realize that they are only digging a bigger whole for them to climb out of.
Macbeth LRJ act 2
1. Macbeth has many negative traits as well as positive traits in act 2. One negative trait is that he begins to go insane after he murders Duncan. He starts rambling to lady Macbeth about voices in his head. This is shown on page 51, lines 39-44. "Methought I heard a voice cry "'Sleep no more!/Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep,/Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,/The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath,/ Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,/ Chief nourisher in life's feast-" This shows that he was taken back by the murder and now he is changing. Duncan also shows a negative trait when he is persuading people to leave the room where he is about to murder Duncan. this is shown on page 45. "I think not of them./Yet when we can entreat an hour to serve,/We would spend it in some word upon that business,/If you would grant the time." This shows how devious Macbeth is acting. He is persuading people to leave the room so he can carry through with the murder. A positive trait of Macbeth is that he strongly regrets the murder after he does it. This is shown on page 63. "Oh, yet I do repent me of my fury,/That I did kill them." Macbeth feels terrible for what he has done and really wants to go back and change what he did. Macbeth shows another positive trait. He shows determination and ambition as he starts to feel better. He wants to fix what he did. This is shown on page 65. "Let's briefly put on manly readiness and meet i'th' hall together." This shows that he is recovering quickly from his shock of the murder. It shows that he is a strong leader.
2. Lady Macbeth shows a negative trait when she is talking to Macbeth after the murder, shown on page 49. "A foolish thought to say a sorry sight." This shows that she is heartless and only wants what is best for herself. It appears as if she doesn't even think of the murder as a bad occurrence and she just wants to get done what is needed to get done. She also shows another trait when Macbeth is feeling terrible about the murder. She doesn't even try to comfort him. She just orders him around as if nothing has happened. This is shown on page 53. "Infirm of purpose!/Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead/Are but as pictures. 'Tis the eye of childhood/That fear a painted devil. If he do bleed,/I'll gild the faces of the grooms withdal,/For it must seem their guilt." A positive trait of Lady Macbeth is shown on page 51. "These deeds must not be thought/After these ways; so, it will make us mad." Although Lady Macbeth is telling Macbeth to forget the murder, she is doing it so they won't be sad. She just wants to forget this terrible thing that they have done. In a way she is trying to help Macbeth get through what he has just done. Another positive trait of Lady Macbeth is found on page 63 when she faints. "Help me hence, ho!" This shows that she finally seems to care about the murder that just happened and shows that she actually does have a heart.
3. In act 2, imagery appears to set the tone as dark and disturbing; a perfect mood for the murders. The scenery appears to be mysterious and frightful. This is shown many times throughout this act such as when Fleance speaks on page 43. “The moon is down. I have not heard the clock.” This introduces the act as a dark and strange night, for the moon is nowhere in sight. This is also shown when Banquo speaks at the beginning. “Their candles are all out.” This pattern continues throughout the scenes of act 2 to show a dark and evil atmosphere.
2. Lady Macbeth shows a negative trait when she is talking to Macbeth after the murder, shown on page 49. "A foolish thought to say a sorry sight." This shows that she is heartless and only wants what is best for herself. It appears as if she doesn't even think of the murder as a bad occurrence and she just wants to get done what is needed to get done. She also shows another trait when Macbeth is feeling terrible about the murder. She doesn't even try to comfort him. She just orders him around as if nothing has happened. This is shown on page 53. "Infirm of purpose!/Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead/Are but as pictures. 'Tis the eye of childhood/That fear a painted devil. If he do bleed,/I'll gild the faces of the grooms withdal,/For it must seem their guilt." A positive trait of Lady Macbeth is shown on page 51. "These deeds must not be thought/After these ways; so, it will make us mad." Although Lady Macbeth is telling Macbeth to forget the murder, she is doing it so they won't be sad. She just wants to forget this terrible thing that they have done. In a way she is trying to help Macbeth get through what he has just done. Another positive trait of Lady Macbeth is found on page 63 when she faints. "Help me hence, ho!" This shows that she finally seems to care about the murder that just happened and shows that she actually does have a heart.
3. In act 2, imagery appears to set the tone as dark and disturbing; a perfect mood for the murders. The scenery appears to be mysterious and frightful. This is shown many times throughout this act such as when Fleance speaks on page 43. “The moon is down. I have not heard the clock.” This introduces the act as a dark and strange night, for the moon is nowhere in sight. This is also shown when Banquo speaks at the beginning. “Their candles are all out.” This pattern continues throughout the scenes of act 2 to show a dark and evil atmosphere.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Macbeth LRJ act 1
1. Macbeth: At first Macbeth is perceived as a brave and strong warrior because of the Captains descriptions of him, such as on page 7 lines 15-23. "But all's too weak;/ For brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name-/ Disdaining Fortune, with bloody execution,/ Like valor's minion carved out his passage/ Till he faced the slave,/ Which ne'er shook hands nor bade farewell to him/ Till he unseamed him from the nave to th' chops,/ And fixed his head upon our battlements." But once Macbeth meets the three witches he begins to doubt himself that he will become king. While the witches chant "All hail, Macbeth!" he begins to doubt himself and is fascinated by the witches. This shows that he is unconfident with himself and changes the perspective on Macbeth entirely for what it was from when the captain was describing him.
Lady Macbeth: Lady Macbeth appears to be ambitious, smart and ruthless. She appears to be even a bit insane with some of the things she says and does. She is much more vicious than her husband and seems to do everything before he does. When she is first seen, she is already plotting Duncan's murder. Lady Macbeth is very demanding and gives orders to people but when it comes down to something that's needed to be done she is the one who wants to do it, making her independent. This ambitious and independent roll is presented throughout the story such as in lines 71-73 on page 33. "Only look up clear./ to alter favor ever is to fear./ Leave all the rest to me."
Banquo: Banquo is also perceived as an ambitious character just as Macbeth and lady Macbeth. But when he is talking to the three witches about his future, instead of doubting himself he doubts the witches. He begins to question them because he doesn't believe what they're saying and there appearance. This is shown on page 15 lines 39-43, "How far is't called to Forres?- What are these,/ So withered and so wild in their attire,/ That look not like th'inhabitants o'th' earth/ And yet are on't?-Live you? Or are you aught/ That man may question?" He appears to have a little more common sense than Macbeth and seems to be a smarter character.
2. The theme of Macbeth appears to be ambitious acts that are mistakes. Macbeth only wants to grow more powerful but doesn't really know what to do to receive this power. He bases his entire conquest on the three witches foretelling. All of these characters in Macbeth have great determination to do what is needed to be done but sometimes do it the wrong way. It seems as if what the theme is saying is if you do something bad it will come back around. Better judgment always gets you what you want.
3. A striking image I remember is when the three witches were singing and dancing around the cauldron. I probably remember this image the best because I was acting it out in class, but still it was sticking because they were chanting and singing spells.
Lady Macbeth: Lady Macbeth appears to be ambitious, smart and ruthless. She appears to be even a bit insane with some of the things she says and does. She is much more vicious than her husband and seems to do everything before he does. When she is first seen, she is already plotting Duncan's murder. Lady Macbeth is very demanding and gives orders to people but when it comes down to something that's needed to be done she is the one who wants to do it, making her independent. This ambitious and independent roll is presented throughout the story such as in lines 71-73 on page 33. "Only look up clear./ to alter favor ever is to fear./ Leave all the rest to me."
Banquo: Banquo is also perceived as an ambitious character just as Macbeth and lady Macbeth. But when he is talking to the three witches about his future, instead of doubting himself he doubts the witches. He begins to question them because he doesn't believe what they're saying and there appearance. This is shown on page 15 lines 39-43, "How far is't called to Forres?- What are these,/ So withered and so wild in their attire,/ That look not like th'inhabitants o'th' earth/ And yet are on't?-Live you? Or are you aught/ That man may question?" He appears to have a little more common sense than Macbeth and seems to be a smarter character.
2. The theme of Macbeth appears to be ambitious acts that are mistakes. Macbeth only wants to grow more powerful but doesn't really know what to do to receive this power. He bases his entire conquest on the three witches foretelling. All of these characters in Macbeth have great determination to do what is needed to be done but sometimes do it the wrong way. It seems as if what the theme is saying is if you do something bad it will come back around. Better judgment always gets you what you want.
3. A striking image I remember is when the three witches were singing and dancing around the cauldron. I probably remember this image the best because I was acting it out in class, but still it was sticking because they were chanting and singing spells.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Ella Thomson: The meanest woman in seven states.
Ella Thomson makes anti-semitic remarks about Jewish people. Why just the other day Ella was making Natalie and I do all the work, when Natalie decided to bring up how merciful God was. Ella, being the naughty child she was, made a snotty remark about Natalie's truthful statement. It was so unbelievably anti-semitic that I couldn't even believe my own two hearing devises. She yelled at the top of her puny lungs, "Natalie's Jewish so therefore she doesn't know what merciful means! I AM SO MEAN! HAHAHAHA!" It was absolutely terrible. I wept for a fort night just hearing the evil tongue she spoke. I really hope Ella learns from her mistakes and becomes a community activist for helping anti-semitic individuals.
(i may have exaggerated quite a bit)
(i may have exaggerated quite a bit)
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