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How Does Shakespeare Construct Our Understanding Of Lady Macbeth’s Character?

June 8, 2014 / / 0 Comments

Shakespeare shows Lady Macbeth to have a different female personality than of those from the Jacobean Era. He shows us that Lady Macbeth’s character is more of a, deep, evil, and very two sided type of character; throughout the play her inner character is quite similar to the Witch’s character. Lady Macbeth, for some reason, seems to be power hungry most of her time.

Shakespeare creates Lady Macbeth in a way where she can be highly determined to do the deed, also won’t back down because the deed might be too challenging for her. Additionally, she tends to use other people to do her will. “That hath made them drunk hath made me bold,“ this quote opens Act2: Scene2, it connotes that ‘them’ being drunk made her valiant and brave towards the deed of killing King Duncan, ‘them’ could also be the obstacles’ that her and Macbeth needed to dodge for Macbeth to be King. Furthermore, Lady Macbeth commits an act which I interpreted it as a very motivated move, “I have drugg’d their possets” implying that she had no other choice but to the risk the chances of getting caught to drug the King’s guards.

From another part, Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth to be the dominant character within her and Macbeth’s relationship. This very unusual compared to the supposed natural nature of women in the Jacobean Era. Women in this era are portrayed as kind, helpful, and obedient while the men are shown as the dominant ones with absolutely no limits of what they can do. However, Lady Macbeth’s character is shown otherwise; “Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures”. The manner in which she is demanding. She demands that he gives her the daggers and she demands that he gets rid of the picture, additionally, she shouts ‘Infirm of purpose!’  which is coward. In the Jacobean Era, women would have never called their husbands a coward and that to the men is abuse, which would leads to punishment, but that did not happen. This could be that Macbeth on the battlefield is strong minded and when he is off he’s weak minded.

Lady Macbeth is constructed by Shakespeare to appear very evil and demonic. It seems to have almost been destiny to have received that prophecy and for Lady Macbeth to act in such a manner. In Act 1:Scene 5 she asks the evil spirits for help; “Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from crown to toe topfull of direst cruelty” this depicts that she already knows that Macbeth will need help in committing such a deed, also the term ‘spirits’ used by Lady Macbeth suggest that she is using dark magic, giving her character a much darker characteristic. Could Lady Macbeth be a Witch?

The Medusa Project: Hit Squad

June 1, 2014 / / 0 Comments

I haven’t  finished reading the book also I’m not really close to finishing the book, or even halfway for a matter of fact, but from the few chapters of the book which I have read, I can already tell that this book is good maybe great. The book starts off with the ‘ protagonist ‘ who have the Medusa Gene ( it gives them psychic abilities ),in a getaway.These children have being part of a 14 year long science experiment-Scientist William Fox began this. Also to be honest with myself this is not even the first book, however the opening chapters of Hit Squad has proven to me that this is a real interesting book series.

The Understanding Task

May 5, 2014 / / 2 Comments

LADY MACBETH

Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy thane,
You do unbend your noble strength to think
So brainsickly of things. Go get some water,
And wash this filthy witness from your hand.
Why did you bring these daggers from the place?
They must lie there. Go carry them and smear
The sleepy grooms with blood.

LADY MACBETH

Who said that? Why, my worthy lord, you let yourself
become weak when you think about things in this
cowardly way. Go get some water and wash this
bloody evidence from your hands. Why did you carry these
daggers out of the room? They have to stay there. Go
take them back and smear the sleeping guards with the blood.

I think that these lines that Lady Macbeth speaks connotes that she is acting and showing herself to be desperate at this moment – Macbeth has killed the king. Normally after murder the person is a rush and, not the person behind the scenes but, in this case Lady Macbeth is showing that she seems to be worrying more about hiding the evidence then Macbeth’s problems of the fact that the King is murdered. To me that implies that Lady Macbeth is more of a deceptive type of person, furthermore, she instantaneously takes the lead role when needed.

Easter Holiday Homework ; Write

April 22, 2014 / / 2 Comments

King Duncan has being murdered! He has been stabbed in his sleep, in his own room. Within the Castle walls there is a traitor,there is a conclusion that there is a murderer in the mist, a killer amongst us because our King has no enemies within the lands of Scotland, and however it seems that we were wrong, but its too late to change that. In addition that King Duncan’s murder was not of international problem, but of a national problem.

The murderer, is suspected , to some how close to Duncan, somehow someone that King Duncan trusts. Moreover, from the King’s corpse we can tell that his killer was in a way nervous, due to the stab wounds, the stabs were not very swift. Furthermore, the traitor has been nervous about this event so they have been worried about this event, and this was no accident, it was no natural incident, this was a staged event.

The hidden murderer, the one living amongst us has to have been disturbed recently, not exactly mentally aware of what was going on around themselves, plus someone whom can wield a dagger or sword quite swiftly, but was not able to maintain their nerves and let it get the better of them.

It claim it to be Macbeth! Yes, Macbeth the killer of King Duncan. Macbeth the one who fits the criteria to the bone. He has been disturbed recently hasn’t he, he left the dining hall when King Duncan was there. He is very skilled with a weapon of that kind, but even he was nervous and he has left his mark of loyalty on dagger which killed our King Duncan. Although he is, what I believe, responsible for King’s death, there is another person lurking in the shadows, I think it is his wife Lady Macbeth.

I have a strong feeling that Lady Macbeth was the encouragement behind this sinister plot, I have a reason to suspect that Macbeth would not do this of his own will, but if either forced or made by witchcraft.

G.I.JOE RETALIATION Review

March 12, 2014 / / 2 Comments

Plot

After being framed and ambushed by their own government, the G.I.Joes must unite with old friends and enemies to rescue the president also make a final stand Cobra Commander,and the rest of the Cobra’s.

Review

Following the number 1 hit in the Box Office, G.I.Joe The Rise of Cobra, the script writers assembled again and wrote the sequel to the the first G.I.Joe film. Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick also wrote the hit film, zombie comedy Zombieland. G.I.Joe Retaliation film has a plot of revenge, betrayal, and survival from the beginning until the end, the plot also contains action, from explosions and breakouts to mini chases and sword fights. The structure of the sequel isn’t as similar to the first like so many other films, it’s storyline it mostly different to the first film, The Rise of Cobra is not full of betrayal and survival, it’s more revenge and the cliche of ” taking over the world”.

Both films have their own way, they have different teams, more experience and less experience comrades, and more aggressive enemies. All this came from the Hasbro action figures, it’s amazing how the creative human mind could produce a hundred million dollar result.However there is some form of a downside, during the film there seem to be a random thought which paid off pretty well, it was a risk to be played and it ended up successful financially.

This film is action-packed and intense from top to bottom, it’s a class production from Paramount Pictures. Director John M. Chu and scriptwriters Reese and Wernick have must of wrote down another hit film fro the entertainment industry.

***** rated film.

 

Creative Writing. Plan and write a scene from ‘Life Of Pi’ as Richard Parker

March 4, 2014 / / 2 Comments

I’ve somehow ended up in a lifeboat, under the covered part of the lifeboat, I have actually been on this lifeboat for sometime shortly after the shipwrecking of the Japanese designed and made ship.It was a total catastrophe. I lost everything in that shipwreck, all my friends and family that were on the boat.Wait…I can hear something, it sounds like other animals.YES! My friends have survived, but, I don’t think that they’ll survive with me to be able to tell this magnificent story to their kids and grandkids, smells like hyena.To be honest with myself I don’t like hyenas, I despise them. I have to live on, I have to eat what I have. Like that the hyena is no more.

Pi has been on the same boat as me for sometime, we’re both scared of each other.He might kill me so that he can finish this quest, on the other hand, me, I might kill him so I can eat him and survive. This is a test which I believe is to see whether the Animal Kingdom will expect me or not. Whether my faith is just words or actual faith or whether I do believe in God or not.

 

Showing VS Telling

January 22, 2014 / / 1 Comment

CLOSE UP

A medium close up shot

        This medium close up shot shows us that clearly one of them are injured due to the blood stains on his shirt also he is laying probably unconscious, his partner is calling for the Paramedics to come instantly to the scene. The agent on the phone has his eyes narrowed, his nostrils flared, eyes are smaller, and mouth opened, this implies to me that he is angry that he let the guys that shot his partner get away but he is in a hurry to save his friend,

A long shot

A Very Wide Shot

 

English Homework – Find, Define, Use

November 17, 2013 / / 2 Comments

Find & Define

Convulsing – suffer violent involuntary contraction of the muscles, producing contortion of the body or limbs.

Sympathisers – a person who agrees with or supports a sentiment, opinion, or ideology.

Daubed – carelessly coat or smear (a surface) with a thick or sticky substance.

Phenolphthalein – A white or pale yellow crystalline powder

Laxative –  tending to stimulate or facilitate evacuation of the bowels.

Ignoramus – an ignorant or stupid person.

Billowing – fill with air and swell outwards.

Drab – lacking brightness or interest; drearily dull.

Concession – a thing that is granted, especially in response to demands.

Prestigious – inspiring respect and admiration; having high status.

Use

The captain is a very prestigious leader.

The room was drab.

He was shot at point blank range and his blood billowed.

Jake is ignoramus.

As sarah convulsed, she fell on the ground.

Most of Hitlers army were Nazi sympathisers 

I sneakily poured Phenolphthalein in his cup.

He may prescribe a laxative to ease the congestion.

The government was unwilling to make any further concessions.

Fredric daubed paint over his puppy wallpaper.