10.31.07

In Macbeth, one can find several different motifs. These are some of the ones that i found.

1. Macbeth
2. Lady Macbeth
3. Bloody hand
4. England


Through out the play, one can realize that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth go through a different process of changing. Macbeth changes from feeling guilty to feeling apethetic about the things he does. However, Lady Macbeth, who persuaded MAcbeth into the murders, feels guilty later on. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth represents different people who changes in the opposite ways.
The bloody hand represents the guilt that Macbeth feels. Through out the play, one can notice the difference of the guilt of Macbeth through what he says about his bloody hand. At first, he feels so guilty that he says even the ocean could not wash his hand, and turn the ocean red. However, later on in the play he says that he does not care about his bloody hand. Also, the hand represents the people.
In the play, there is a moment where the play takes place in England when Macduff runs away to England to escape Macbeth. There he finds Malcom who also fled after his father died, and there is a peaceful moment in the play, where they escaped from evil Macbeth, and there is a king who can heal anything. This comes after a scene of a mother and a son. The mother and son are both very peaceful, even when they were talking about something tragetic. When they die after their peaceful scene, and Macduff is informed, ironically, the reaction of Macduff is to not give up and fight Macbeth, but also to be sorrow like a man, which referes being sorrow to something good, instead of something not good, which makes England a place without evil.

10.30.07

Today in class we learned about Act 5. We learned that in Act 5, there are a lot of scenes because it is like the climax of the play. We also learned that Lady Macbeth is turning guilty from evil, and on the contrary, Macbeth is turning evil from guilty. The doctor in the act represents the Christian point of view in the play for the first time. Other than that, The play has been more of an opposite view, with all the killing and stuff.

10.25.07

We can see some changes of Macbeth. At first, Macbeth was a loyal warrior to the king. Also, he was a very nice person, and loved the king. However, he falls for the persuation of the Wierd Sisters and Lady Macbeth and soon finds himself guilty. He feels so guilty that he sees ghosts and sees hallucinations, such as the daggers in his hand. Later, when he kills Macduff's family, he does not even feel guilty. He has changed from a heartfull person to a cold-hearted person.

10.22.07

In Macbeth, there are several different themes. These are some of the themes i can think of.

1. People around you can influence you greatly.
2. Guilt can change one a lot.
3. Women think like men to be evil.
4. Murder brings another murder.
5. One's actions is totally depended on one's beliefs.

10.12.07

Friday was very cold, which helped us work harder. We looked at our scavanger hunt, and then we talked about Macbeth. We talked about the bonus he gave us, (which i did but left in my room) and we found each one in the book as a class. I found it very difficult to recognize those stuff because Shakespear's language is so confusing and wierd. However, i got over it, and succeded to find those stuff that he gave us.

10.10.07

Today we did a scavanger hunt on Macbeth. I found some metaphores and forshadowing. It was an interesting game, except it was very difficult and hard to understand. Mr. Maddox's assignments are always difficult. I had difficulty finding what dramatic irony meant, but Iwas relieved after Mr. Maddox decided to tell us.

10.7.07

In a movie, I would present Macbeth as a hero in a battle, who always doesn't really care about his armor for protection, but still never gets hurt. He would talk a bit cocky. In a battle, he would never take a helmet on, and when the other soldiers see him, they will be afraid.
His expression is very changeless, and calm.

10.4.07

The way Macbeth was feeling is kind of stubborn because of something shocking. Sometimes, when I have nightmares, I feel the same way. I wake up scared of what happened in my dream, and it takes me about 10 mins to calm down. For example, once I had a dream of my friend dying. When i woke up, my heart was pumping so fast that my chest hurt, and it took a while to calm down. However, even after i calmed down, I was scared that my dream would come true, which did not fortunately.

10.3.07

I think that the witches wanted Macbeth to believe what they were saying, becasue the witches showed earlier in the play that they did not care what happened to anybody, and that what they enjoyed the most is to just sit back and watch what they have set up. Also, the witches have no reason to side on anybody, because they dont care.

10.1.07

Today we talked about Maya Angelou and heard opinions from others. Mr. Maddox said that it is important because shes someone who has lived through times of racism and still lives to tell the story, and that she leaves her thoughts through literature.