ACT V ACTIVE READING NOTES

• A doctor is talking to a woman about watching Lady MacBeth who sleepwalks
•  Lady MacBeth walks with her eyes open but appears oblivious to everything else she talks to herself about keeping her hands clean of blood and she keeps "washing" her hand in the air
• She speaks of Banquo's death and how it cannot be undone
• The doctor is shocked and askes God to look after her
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ACT IV STUDY QUESTIONS

4.2

1.  There are 3 witches in this scene.

2.  The first apparition says to be wary of Macduff and careful of him.  The second tells Macbeth he should be a strong willed ruler- bold and brace.  In other words he should not accept defeat.  The third warns of attacking armies coming, and tells Macbeth he won't be defeated until the kingdom of Norway attacks.
     Macbeth doesn't feel safe after the apparitions.  He has worries about Macduff's intentions and the possibility of an oncoming attacking army.  Yes he should feel unsafe because he is in a very precarious position.
     After the fourth, the line of kings, Macbeth is terrified.  He saw the ghost of Banquo at the end, whom he killed.  This frightened him as well as drawing out his guilt.

3.  In line 158 Macbeth learns from Lennox that Macduff is running away to England.  In response Macbeth decides to send someone try to kill as many of Macduff's family members as he can.

4.2

1) Lady McDuff seems to feel betrayed and angry at McDuff because he left them (her and her son) to die. She was advising her son to dislike his father because he fled when he discovered that Macbeth is planning to kill him.
2) The purpose of the scene between Lady McDuff and her son is to have his son have false impression about his dad. Also, the scene assists in the growth of the theme : fair is foul and foul is fair. This is because Macbeth is willing to kill McDuff in order to achieve what is"rightfully" his and McDuff fled, afraid of Macbeth's actions towards him. It also shows how McDuff's son refused to believe that his father left them to die, showing devotion, faith, and trust.
3) The entire McDuff family ends up being killed by Macbeth.

4.3

1. Macduff's family has been killed. 

2. Malcolm doesn't want to go home because he's afraid of judgement since he ran away. Malcolm is suspicious of Macduff bc Macduff has his own personal agenda. He might be secretly working for Macbeth since he left his family. Malcolm tests Macduff's loyalty to him and he passes. When Macduff starts to leave Malcolm takes back the lies he's told and trusts Macduff now- they're now allies. 

3. Malcolm says he's a bad king but Macduff says Macbeth is a way worse king and that he needs to return to restore peace and justice. Avarice bothers Macduff more in a king, it sticks deeper with kings in the terms of greed and lust. 

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5 coming soon...

6. Ross tells Macduff that his family is dead, it takes him a while to tell him. Macduff says they must save their grief for later and Malcom says to turn their revenge into a medicine for their grief. Macduff says "he has no children" and he is referring to Malcom because he says he needs to mourn and "feel like a man" when Malcom tells him to dispute it like a man. To be a "man" in this play means to have feelings and don't hide but don't let them cloud your judgement.
7. Malcom, Macduff and Ross are ready to attack Macbeth's castle, they just need to go there.

MACBETH ACT III

• Banquo opens with a self soliloquy about how the witches prophesied that MacBeth will be king. He hopes that the prophecy about him fathering many kings will also come true
• MacBeth is having a feast and he requests that Banquo be there, Banquo has an errand but MacBeth tells him he has to make it to the dinner. He also tells Banquo that there is whispers in england and Ireland
• MacBeth fears Banquos sons will overpower him and take over his crown.
• MacBeth has hired two hitman to take Banquo out, they all consider Banquo their enemies, they are planning to kill him to
• MacBeth is feeling really guilty and so is his wife
• Murders kill Banquo but Fleance escapes

ACT 1 STUDY QUESTIONS

1) Beginning the play with a dialogue between the witches sets the mood to be dark, evil, and mysterious. This foreshadows the plot, theme, and mood for the future of the story in the same manner. In comparison of Shakespeare's other plays, Macbeth requires more ambiguity and the syntax and diction used needs to be more bleak. For example, Hamlet highlighted the themes of betrayal and complexity of relationships and power. Even though, the theme falls in the same ballpark with Macbeth, the gloominess of the plot of Macbeth overpowers that of Hamlet. In the beginning of the play, the witches were going to meet Macbeth at the "ere of sunset." Line 10 was "Paddock calls" and line 11 was "Anon." The phrase paddock class means a toad, which symbolizes transformation. The word anon means soon or shortly. The "toad" and it's transformation could metaphorically be compared to Macbeth and his evolving and transforming to be a completely different person or even having a transformation in his status and power. The witch's response as anon signifies how Macbeth will shortly have a transformation - to be declared a thane.
2) 1. The bloody seargent indirectly characterizes Macbeth by glorifying his actions towards Macdonwald. Macdonwald is a rebel who was executed. He tried to attack them. Macbeth executed macdonwald with his sword. This did not end the fight with the rebels, the Norwegians are still attacking. 2. The traitor was the Thane of Cawdor, as we learn from Ross. Duncan says that its a relief the thane of cawdor was executed and that Macbeth now owns his previous title.

3) 1. The witches speech gives a first look at Macbeth and his wife without saying who they are. Indirect characterization of the two. Similar to Hamlet where he gives a mini synopsis early in the story. "Weird" in Shakespeare's day meant future seers not weird as we know it, prophecy and destiny. Shakespeare means that Macbeth's wife has him by the balls. They  cast a spell to control his destiny. 

2. Macbeth says something very similar to what the witches said at the beginning of the play. This could be him falling into the destiny the witches set up. Dried, chapped fingers, gender ambiguity, hairy, old, they have literal beards. The witches tell Macbeth that he will thane of Candor and eventually King, right then he finds out he is thane of Cawdor. Banquo asked the witch why they had nothing for him, they told him he is lesser but greater than Macbeth. We knew he was thane before he was thane.

3. Banquo says the witches were a figment of their imagination that they lie or that they are hallucinating. Macbeth learns that he is thane of Cawdor from Ross and Angus. During lines 114-156 he was going over his plan in his head and how everything had just happened to him. He acts very happy and shows no incredulity at being thane. Macbeth's aside shows him rationalizing what happened to him and he begins to think that he is going to be King soon. Macbeth tells Banquo that he is happy and excited and nothing more he explains his behavior by saying he is confused.

4) 1. Cawdor was executed after openly confessing his treason and pleading for mercy. Malcolm tried to stick up for the thane, but the king responds by basically saying that you can't trust a man according to his face. He doesn't believe the thane was truly repentant.

2. The king greets them by saying that he can never repay them enough for their good deeds, but announces he will leave all his estate and names his son, Malcolm, prince of Cumberland. He then proposes that they go to Macbeth's castle at Inverness. Macbeth tells himself that the only way to be king is to get rid of Malcolm, and even though he'll be appalled at his action, he must do it.

5) 1. Macbeth was honest with his wife when he informs her of his new title as "Thane of Cawdor." He refers to the witches as "weird sisters" probably because he doesn't want her know that he is associated with the "evil servants."

Lady Macbeth responds by saying that she thinks Macbeth is playng things off as if everything is fine. By saying "but be the serpent under't", she describes him as someone that lies to make everything appear under control. This doesn't really match the characterization of Macbeth so far in the story which implies that there is something the audience doesn't know about him. 

6) 1. The opening speeches (1.6.1-10) describe how the surroundings of the castle are "pleasant" and the air is sweet-maybe even too sweet. From the outside, the castle appears to be paradise.

Lady Macbeth's welcome is formal. Her language is totally different from her language in the previous scene which shows how fake and dishonest her welcome was.

7)

MEET MACBETH

1. Macbeth was introduced through indirect characterization from the thoughts of other characters that talk about him."for brave Macbeth well he deserves that name distaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel, which smoked with bloody execution."

2. One instant where the witches foreshadow is when they say, "Fair is foul and foul is fair." This foreshadows that someone will betray someone in the future and in turn that person will be betrayed.

3. Shakespeare's exposition in Macbeth gives the readers and viewers not only a sense of hierarchy but background into where the play opens and how characters act and what others think about certain ones. The use if indirect characterization alludes to past actions and what the outcome of those actions were.

4. Shakespeare never directly addresses Macbeth as a character saying he is like this or he's evil. He uses other characters to comment on what they believe Macbeth is like as a person. At the time if the play, a King was to come and watch. Macbeth's character ends up killing a king and conspiring with witches which in the time of Shakespeare that was considered evil and the most heinous sin. Shakespeare does this because he doesn't want the king to see him as an evil person.

5. One of the main themes that most see in the okay is the line of the witches "fair is foul and foul is fair." This theme will drive the plot if the story into a darker area than if the plot was like everything can be resolved with the use of words.

MACBETH NOTES DAY 1

• Fair is foul and foul is fair.
• Witches are agents if Satan who work at night
• Witches had all the powers that were existed at the time
• For a king to have dealings with the witches its "evil"
• Great chain of being:
• King have symbolized the union if  Scotland and England
• Loosely based on historical fact, murder if Duncan is well known
• Macbeth cannot live with himself for killing a king, sinned against God and sinned against the crown
• Although we haven't seen Macbeth, we already known
• Know if his  character due to the indirect  characterization
• Macbeth won a title, from a traitor who was discovered and killed so Macbeth got the title as he was next in line
• Lady Macbeth is the true evil, she immaculates Macbeth making it the driving force in his evil
• Banquo felt jealous that Macbeth got the prophecy. Macbeth promised the greater prophecy
• Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day

YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN ESSAY

Throughout the short story of "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Goodman Brown travels through the woods along Death to some unknown mission. During the time Goodman Brown is walking all he wants is to break away from Death and go back to his new wife, Faith. The trouble is that Death and other villagers push him to continue on his way.

Goodman Brown struggles to fight against the satanic way of the village in the way that he tries to continue on what he believes is right. The problem is he has no one to lean on for support as all even dear Faith have been coerced by the Devils ways into doing what he wanted. Some men who Goodman Brown even believed where holy and Christians were persuaded by the Devil to do his bidding. The main conflict of avoiding a certain way of life and avoiding the need for outward conformity is that one must have some to join along with or something to pull back into. Having a strong foundation that will stay grounded no matter the stress that others place on it is the key to avoiding the need to join in what is going on.

Brown struggled with his choice to join the Devil and the villagers because he was fighting to be himself. In majority of all cultures, the desire to be true to oneself is implied but not practiced. If one is too much like themselves, then they could be considered weird and be branded as an outcast. Finding the right fit between being oneself and not joining into what is wanted by those around can cause many issues. 

In Goodman Brown's travels he tries to evade the need to join into his society but he fails.He loses his new wife and he loses his own life. His lose represents the lost that all feel once they finally give into what the world around them wants. One loses oneself and loved ones when one choices to outwardly conform.

POEM ESSAY

The poem I choose to write about is "Out, Out" by Robert Frost. The prompt I selected was

 

1989 Poem: “The Great Scarf of Birds” (John Updike)

Prompt: Write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how the poem's organization, diction, and figurative language prepare the reader for the speaker's concluding response.

I believe this poem could be used for this prompt because it also uses a  complex and defined structure to lead into the death of the boy at the end of the poem.

Throughout the poem "Out, Out" by Robert Frost, there are several instances where the structure and syntax of the piece foreshadow and illuminate the overall ending. Frost uses strong literary methods such as allusions, personification and restatement to bring notice to strong points in his piece. 

He alludes to the way the boy was left alone doing work that was more for a man than a boy relates to the need by the family for him to work. He shows that through the way even the sister is the one who announces dinner. Most early eastern societies require all members of the family to pitch in to keep the family afloat. Even the death of one member may not be as significant as it is today because there is always more work to do than to mope. This allusion to the early culture helps signify to the reader why all who were not dead returned to their chores or tasks after the boy was dead.

Frost gave human attributes to the chain saw so that the readers may understand the situation at hand. There was a young boy working to help his family and a "hungry" saw waiting to feast on him as soon as was given the chance. Frost even timed the decapitation of the hand with the moment the sister yells supper to give the saw another human characteristic. By creating a person with the saw, readers are able to connect the dots that the saw represents mistakes made by humans that cause pain, suffering and death of other humans. 

By repeatedly saying phrases like snarled and rattled, Frost brought attention to the saw and how it was the focal point of the poem. The saw represented the snarling dangerous nature that lurks around every corner. The saw not only took the life of a little boy it represented death. Death like the saw picks a person and at a point where it seemed most fitting it takes what it wants.  Death is a mysterious force that may take several minutes, hours, days or even years to take a person which often leads to hope. What the saw did was take the little hope that was left from that family and in turn made them as unfeeling as the force of death itself.

Frost used many literary techniques to bring about a stronger meaning in his poem and to show different aspects like death, hope, early cultures and human mistakes. His poem shows how the death of a young boy can be perceived in many ways and each way can lead to different meanings. The techniques he used helps the readers understand the death and how the family must continue on with life even after they lost one of their own.

DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP ESSAY

There's only one thing that separates us humans from those metallic humanoids roaming the streets. It's not intelligence or feelings. It's empathy. The Boneli Test or the Voigt-Kampff empathy test unveil the identities of "andys" as they produce slower reactions to human questions and show no regard of feelings towards others.


But another way to prove my innocence of being an android, is to test my bone marrow. Although the andys made on Mars are made of biological material, they are not made of real bone like us humans. A simple bone marrow test proves whether an individual is human or not.


Us humans value life and we can show feelings when something we believe is immoral occurs. Like a poor dog being stuffed with rice, or a deer mounted on the wall. We treasure others as there are few still here with us and close to no animals left. The radioactive dust has taken all from us even made our fellow humans emigrate to Mars.


We humans know that killing is wrong but the escaped androids who come here for sanctuary kill their own owners to get here, the very people they were created to aid on that harsh, barren landscape.


We humans also value life and feel the need to take care of pets. Whether it's real or synthetic, raising an animal in a loving and caring environment is something house android will never know. I for one have two did and a turtle whom I care for and have lived for many years. No andy can keep an animal alive.


Androids cannot understand our concept of Mercanism, the main religion on Earth now, as it was given to us by the great Mercer himself. Mercer's teachings include the understanding that we are all together now as we survive in these new territories. He takes us on a spiritual journey through the empathy box where we watch through a screen as Mercer guides us up the mountain. No andy can complete the task like we can.


I've made my argument on the difference of humans and those murderous androids. You may test me all you like and find that I indeed am human as I feel the connection to others and I empathize. The true question is whether you are andy or human. 

Masterpiece update!!

April 6- interview with the newest female doctor at Marian!! She was absolutely amazing and so very helpful. She not only gave insight into medical school but she gave great advice about how she made it. She truly is an inspiration and a role model!

April 8- shadowed an E. R. Doctor at Marian. Not only did I get to see some amazing things but I got a great insight into patient care and how each case of "abdominal pain" is unique.

Can't wait to share my experiences!