In act 2, scene 4, Rosalind is very tired and melancholy from walking through the Forest of Arden, but she acts courageously because she is disguised as Ganymede, a man. She believes that men are not aloud to cry and because of this she acts strong and bold. "I could find in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel and to cry like a woman, but I must/comfort the weaker vessel, as doublet and hose/ought to show itself courageous to petticoat. There-/fore courage, good Aliena." (2.4.4-8)
While Rosalind, Touchstone and Celia are resting, they overhear two shepherds, Corin and Silvius, talking about Sivlius's problems with loving a woman named Phoebe. Rosalind has pity on Silvius because she can relate to the situation. "Alas, poor shepherd, searching of they wound,/I have by hard adventure found mine own." (2.4.43-44) But now she has found love which shows that she can't keep Orlando off of her mind. She wants to be with him more than anything at this point.
Rosalind also shows more confidence because she talks to a complete stranger, Corin, and arranges them a place to stay. This shows that she is feeling much more comfortable disguised as a man; she is interacting with other people and becoming much more social. "I prithee, shepherd, if that love or gold/Can in this desert place buy entertainment,/Bring us where we may rest ourselves and feed./Here's a young maid with travel much oppressed. And faints for succor." (2.4.73-77)
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
As You Like It Character Journal: Rosalind Act 1
Rosalind is the daughter of Duke senior who has been banished from the royal court, yet she still lives there. Right at the beginning of act 2 Rosalind's behavior shows that she is melancholy about her father. She wants to be happy, so she asks her cousin Celia to cheer her up. "Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I am/mistress of, and would yet I were merrier?/Unless you could each me to forget a banished/father, you must not learn me how to remember/ any extraordinary pleasure." This shows that they have a very strong bond and are very close, for only good friends would ask others to do such a personal favor.(1.2.2-6).
Right after Orlando wrestles Charles and beats him he talks to Rosalind after the match and they appear to have feelings for each other. Rosalind talks to Celia about her overwhelming love for Orlando and explains that she has immediately fallen in love with him. "Let me love him for that, and do you love/him because I do." (1.3.36-37). She wants Orlando more than anything right now and is overwhelmed with deep love. Right after this happens Duke Frederick comes charging through the room full of anger in his eyes. He banishes Rosalind from the kingdom. She appears to be calm about the situation but is confused on why the Duke is denouncing her from the royal court so unexpectedly. Just as she was feeling joyous again she now felt terrible and melancholy for she did not want to leave the court. She cannot believe what Duke Frederick has done and now despises him.
Celia said that she would go with Rosalind which showed how close the two of them were and how their bond of friendship could never be broken. Celia suggests that they go to the forest of Arden to find Duke Senior. At first Rosalind shows skepticism because there is quite a bit of danger that lurks in the forest. "Alas, what danger will it be to us,/Maids as we are, to travel forth so far?/Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. (1.3.114-116) Rosalind quickly switches her decision after thinking about how good it would be to see her beloved father and decides to disguise herself as a man. She is still very worried about what the two of them are about to do but still she shows great ambition, bravery and perseverance for she is willing to go through such lengths to find her father in the dangerous Forest of Arden.
Right after Orlando wrestles Charles and beats him he talks to Rosalind after the match and they appear to have feelings for each other. Rosalind talks to Celia about her overwhelming love for Orlando and explains that she has immediately fallen in love with him. "Let me love him for that, and do you love/him because I do." (1.3.36-37). She wants Orlando more than anything right now and is overwhelmed with deep love. Right after this happens Duke Frederick comes charging through the room full of anger in his eyes. He banishes Rosalind from the kingdom. She appears to be calm about the situation but is confused on why the Duke is denouncing her from the royal court so unexpectedly. Just as she was feeling joyous again she now felt terrible and melancholy for she did not want to leave the court. She cannot believe what Duke Frederick has done and now despises him.
Celia said that she would go with Rosalind which showed how close the two of them were and how their bond of friendship could never be broken. Celia suggests that they go to the forest of Arden to find Duke Senior. At first Rosalind shows skepticism because there is quite a bit of danger that lurks in the forest. "Alas, what danger will it be to us,/Maids as we are, to travel forth so far?/Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. (1.3.114-116) Rosalind quickly switches her decision after thinking about how good it would be to see her beloved father and decides to disguise herself as a man. She is still very worried about what the two of them are about to do but still she shows great ambition, bravery and perseverance for she is willing to go through such lengths to find her father in the dangerous Forest of Arden.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Macbeth LRJ act 6
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.
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.
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.
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