"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."

appearance vs. reality

LOVE IS BLIND

Macbeth seems to think that his wife is only attempting to aid him, to turn things to his favor, and to make him a great and known man. He never once considers the idea that his lady is controlling him; he believes that she is really only attempting to bring him his well deserved honor more rapidly. Macbeth is a weak man. He constantly attempts to forget this crazy plan wondering what will happen if they fail, or how the people will react, or if people will assume it was he who committed the crime, but he is soon coaxed to forget these "irrational" and "cowardly" ideas. Lady Macbeth is quite crazy, irrational, and controlling; she forces her beloved husband to continue with the plan of murder. When he tries to chicken-out she begins to call him names, saying he is not a man, that he is a coward, and that she herself could do it. The audience and reader see Lady Macbeth as immoral and cruel because she is encouraging her husband to murder an innocent man in order to receive power. Lady Macbeth is a harm to Macbeth and those around her. Her murder plan, made to frame Duncan's officers, may also harm her own husband's reputation. In a sense she is also selfish, her husband will have the power, but she has the power to control him.

WHAT ABOUT MY MASTERPIECE?

My progress is slow but I have begun to interview people. I currently have taken down the blog until I have a good number of posts. The blog will go back up when I feel it has enough content, and once it includes people from diverse backgrounds and stories. Progress is slow with this project because the people who said they would help me and I have busy schedules. Classes, extracurricular activities, AP prep, has taken up a grand portion of our time. I'm hoping to knock out multiple interviews this week though. Gotta speed up this process, yet have quality and personable work.

If anyone is interested in this project and wants to help, please let me know. (:

Meet Macbeth

Macbeth is introduced first through the eyes of Sergeant, who uses both indirect and direct characterization. Sergeant describes Macbeth as brave, while Duncan calls him 'valiant' and 'worthy.' Macbeth's described actions provide us with more insight into who he is, and what kind of character/person he is. His inhumane actions, the brutal murder he committed, and the way he treats the dead man's body shows who he is. Macbeth, through indirect characterization, seems cruel and out only to help himself. He also seems easy to control and in a sense gullible, he eats up the witches words without questioning, quickly accepting them as true. The witches provide the idea that an event will happen to Macbeth, and Macbeth believing he is worthy makes it occur. Shakespeare gives enough detail and background information for the reader to be informed of the entire plot. He does this through his characters, some scenes of the play, even up to this point, are purely two characters speaking about another character's background, or events that have occurred, etc. Dialogue is the main source of information, it is what allows us to know what the characters plan to do next. The witches are a large source for telling about the plot without giving away too much.

Macbeth is described in a gory sense, yet he is also described as valiant, brave, and in a sense, worthy. The tone mostly seems to be as seeing characters and such as worthy, honorable, respectable. Themes such as "fair is foul, and foul is fair," will be main sources to drive the rest of the play. Macbeth does not play fair, he murders to gain his position and to keep moving up the ranks. His actions aren't necessarily "fair," they are foul, yet he manages to get what he wants, and what his prophecy from the witches said. 

2014 Most Challenged Books

http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-challenged-banned-books-2014-20150413-story.html

A ridiculous list with a bunch of bull shit reasons behind the attempted bans. Things such as violence, rape, masturbation, foul language, homosexuality. We are exposed to these things anyway, they occur on a daily basis. Honestly? How can a book be banned for things that occur constantly. Parents want to "protect" their children, so they don't want their kids to read a memoir from a kidnap and rape survivor? They don't want their Kid learnig about bullying, and not to do it?

My Macbeth Resources

1. Macbeth Study Guide - includes summaries, annotations, commentary. It includes things such as character introductions, explanations for figurative language, and explanation for each soliloquy.

2. YouTube Macbeth summary, courtesy of benben8it.

3. Macbeth I Index - provides background of Shakespeare himself,  historical background of the story, explanation of themes, literary devices, and characters, as well as providing assessment tasks. 

4. Macbeth Theme Page - a page full of links to resources, including synopses, explanations, translations, character analysis.

5. Macbeth Introduction

Macbeth - Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow Soliloquy

She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.