Macbeth+Reading+Journal


 * Journal #4**

First thing's first, I'm changing my theme from 'Belief' into 'Power' as I realised that I have more things to talk about in Power and that I could come up with more ideas for power compared to 'Belief'.

**10 examples of theme 'Power'**

1) The weird sisters, mentions about a sailor's wife that calls one of them 'witches'. This made angers them and they wanted to take a revenge, by blowing her husband's ship with wind by their magic so that he would not be able to stock up on his food and drinks, to let him suffer in the sea. (I.iii.

2) Lady Macbeth is determined to kill King Duncan when she and her husband will host the party tonight. She utters that she does not want to be a women for this particular night and that she needs to have no emotions as she needs courage in order to achieve the goal that she wants, to be the Queen of Scotland. (I.v.42-46)

3)Lady Macbeth has control over the mission of killing King Duncan (I.v.71-72)

4) Macbeth has a hard time to control his thoughts as he value thinking first before action. Loyalty or desire (I.vii.1-24)

5) King has the wealth that no one could ever imagine. (II.i.14-19)

6)Blood is a symbol of power. The first blood that Macbeth get on his hands is King Duncan's and that alone has made him feel powerful as the sense of achievement for killing someone of a top authority has made him drowned in the pool of blood. (II.ii.89-90)

7) Macbeth is afraid that someone else might claim his throne just as the witches has predicted to him. He tries to eliminate any possible king-to-be and his family so that no one may take over his position.(III.i.91-97)

8)Macbeth convinced the murderers that the cause of the their misfortune is Banquo. (III.i.)

9) Sword is a symbol of power as it represents skills or the person that holds t. not only killing enemies, but it could also mean suicide. (v.viii.1-3)

10) 'Turn around you wretched hellhound!' (v.viii.), Rage power

**Attention Grabber**

Power is a word that means strength or achievement but if misused, it could lead to misfortune.

**SHAMPOO**

"Turn, hell-hound, turn."

**Exploratory Paragraph**

Hell-hound is a dog that guards hell. Macduff calls Macbeth by this nickname as he is a killer that has killed his family and that this made his life as sad as hell. Macbeth killed Macduff's family because Macduff has betrayed Scotland together with Macbeth and that Macduff needs to be punished. Macduff commanded Macbeth to turn so as to get his attention.It could also mean turn and fight him as a command. This quote shows how powerful Macduff's hatred is toward Macbeth and that Macbeth's reply to his command did not satisfy him at all. This triggers his power to fight and a total demonstration of will power. He killed Macbeth for the sake of his family as well as his country. To get rid of the hell-hound and set Scotland free from hell and into the heaven by celebrating the new king.

**Journal #3**

4) The symbol that I have chosen 'sword' and it represents belief.

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This song tells me about how one should believe in themselves and that one could accomplish anything when they do. Macbeth should rely more on himself rather than depending on others.

"With my sword I’ll prove the lie thou speak’st" (Shakespeare 232).

Macbeth is a person who tends to believe anything that will came true and that he does not believe in himself. At the very first part of the play, Macbeth seems doubtful at first about the weird sisters three predictions. But as the story progressed, one by one the sister's predictions came true and from then on, Macbeth started to believe in whatever prediction that the sisters gave him, and starting to ask for more. The quote above is said by Young Siward who is an Earl of Northumberland's son and that he requested a fight to Macbeth. This is a Metaphor as instead of him speaking, he let his sword to represent his words and that he believe that he will win as long as he has his sword.

**Journal#2**

**Part 1**

Macbeth has shown a lot of emotions for the last scene in Act V. He changes from someone so high, mighty and fearless of anything to one of a coward that nobody would look up to him as a king, " What's he That was not born of woman? Such one Am I to fear, or none." (Shakespeare 232) .Then he turns into a coward: "Accursed be the tongue that tells me so, for it hath cowed my better part of man!... I will not fight thee" (Shakespeare 236). Macbeth is scared that he has found out about the fact that Macduff is not 'born' from a woman in a normal way, but instead, being ripped apart from his mother's womb. This fact triggers Macbeth's fear as the witches has predicted for him that the man that will be able to kill him was the man who is not born from a woman.

**Part 2**

As a script writer, it is important for one to insert words that represents the character's emotion at that particular scene. Lines that are especially short and effective and full with meaningful words. Personification and Metaphor are two main focus that I have chosen to highlight our play.The quote that I have chosen in the previous Journal, has the slight meaning of foreshadowing as the term 'bloodier villain' could mean that Macbeth will soon be covered in blood by the sword of Macduff. Macduff himself was really angry about the fact that Macbeth has ordered men to kill his family. He was really frustrated so he started calling Macbeth names such as 'hell-hound' and 'bloodier villain'. This is how the shampoo element could work for a script writer.

**Journal #1**

**Part 1**

"My voice is in my sword, thou bloodier villain Than terms can give thee out!" (V.viii.10).

This is a Personification as well as a Metaphor.

This line is important to the play as Macdoff commands Macbeth to fight and that let actions, which is represented by his sword, will do the talking instead of his mouth and Macdoff is reffering to Macbeth with the term 'bloodier villain'. In this scene, all men are really frustrated with Macbeth and that they didn't want to settle it peacefully with words, but they want to fight instead.

**Part 2**

I'm a writer for the group

Act 5 scene 7 is what we are performing

I would like to create a scene after the original so as not to disturb the flow of the story. I would create a story in which Macduff himself feeling guilty of him killing Macbeth.Slowly but surely, bit by bit he himself is going crazy and eventually commit suicide. We'll have an extra scene in which describes the after life where all the dead characters came back alive here and we'll end our play in the most comical way possible.

I'm going to use a lot of similes and methapor as well as and mixing some old english as well as new english.

"You rotten one, who is not worthy of the throne will soon be kicked around, like a filthy bag of rice."

This is Macduff's line.