English Individual write up

English Individual Write-up

                The two essential questions that I feel connected best with my play are “What is Ambition” and “How far is someone willing to go to get what they want. These connect to the play because most of what happens throughout the play seems to be based on these two essential questions. In the beginning of the play MacBeth is introduced as a hero. He help King Duncan fight of some enemy invaders and then is made the Thane of Cawdor. However as the play progresses MacBeth is almost crazed with the thought of becoming King of Scotland. The EQ that connects with this is “What is ambition” because his Ambition is what causes him to lose everything. I selected these questions because  both of them have a significant effect on the play.

 

                By doing this play I learned that without the influence of Lady MacBeth,  MacBeth  would have not killed everyone. This is true because Lady Macbeth put all these thoughts in his hear which caused him to do what he did. By working in this group I learned that editing with other people is difficult because you all have different ideas on how you want it to look. I feel that the work was evenly distributed because we all filmed together and Jan made the script and me and Sedrick edited.

Brodie Jung

Is Macbeth a tragic hero

Is Macbeth a tragic hero. Some would say yes some would say no. I believe that Macbeth is a tragic hero and I am going to tell you why. For Macbeth to be a tragic hero he must have all of the 6 main traits of a tragic hero, which macbeth doeshave. The three main points that he does have are a sense of commitment, capacity for suffering and a belief in his own freedom.


First if all I will explain how he has a sense of commitment. He has a sense of commitment because when he kills duncan he says that once he kills Duncan it is done. Meaning that he accepts that once he kills the king there is no turning back. A good quote to show that he does have a sense of commitment is "I am in blood

Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er." (Act III, Scene IV) This is really good quote because he literally says that he cant go back because he is in so deep. 

Next he has a capacity for suffering because after he kills Duncan it almost drives him insane with guilt and he just loses bis marbles. This is very subtle because after he kills Duncan he goes on a killing spree and he doesn't are. Bur still this shows that he does infact have a capacity for suffering. "I have almost forgot the taste of fears; The time has been, my senses would have cool'd. To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair, Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir. As life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me." (Act V, Scene V) This is a good quote because it shows that he feels bad about killing all the people he did. 

Lastly I will explain why he has belief in his own freedom. He has a belief in his own freedom because when accepts the outcomes of his freedom when he kills Duncan because when he kills Duncan he says "I go and it is done" (Act I, Scene i, Line 69) showing that he accepts the outcomes of his freedom. This is a good quote because he knows that once he kills Duncan there is no turning back and he must continue wit his "quest" to become king of Scotland.


As you can see Macbeth is a tragic hero. Even if he may not display all the six main traits at one time he does display them at one time or another which is all that matters. Macbeth is infact a Tragic hero.


Brodie Jung

This version is better than the original because it has more quotes so it strengthens my point. Also it is just better cause I wrote it on the computer instead of an iPhone.

Who I am for Macbeth

I want to be lady Macbeth because her personality changes a lot thorughtout the story.
I feel it changes more than anybody elses personality. I think that it would be very interesting to write about.

Journal 2

Journal 2
Poems and stuff
Ass I grew older

Which poems had the most meaning for you personally?
The poem that had the most meaning for me personally was As I grew older because it sort of gives the illusion of as you get older you can over come challenges you could not over come in the past

What ideas or feelings seem most significant to you. Why?
The feeling that the main character is black and overcoming you personal challenges.
I feel that the main character is black because in the poem it say "My dark hands!"
I feel that the main character is overcoming challenges because its saying that a wall or obstacle.
At the end of the poem the main character is overcoming this "wall" and is breaking free
This ties into the first point because it seems like she would be overcoming racial challenges and she is finally free of discrimination.

Identity Song

Sum 41
Rythms

Mad in a way, but I don't say
It's what you're used to.
I got the words but can't convey.
I know you'll turn it all around,
It's the rhythms that you go through
Get it back and you're not obliged to say,
Not intact but you're better off anyway.
Somehow it's never up to me.
What if I would say?
Simple words I can't relate.
I don't place upon your view,
It's the rhythms that you go through.

I know what I want,
You just take me through the motions.
I know what I want,
And that's more than you can say.

Since you found me out,
Since you found me out,
Since you found me out,
Since you found me out.

Your story still remains
It's so unlike you, still you stay the same,
But all the while you're counting on your day to come,
But nothing ever told you.
You would say that it's only for a day.
Yesterday's last week tommorrow's on its way.
I'm falling faster all the time.

What if I would say?
Simple words that I can't relate.
what came easy is now too late.
And it was always standing right in front of me.

Cause I know what I want,
You just take me through the motions.
I know what I want,
And that's more than you can say.

All the time you thought worth saving,
Still end up with memories fading.
After all that you wouldn't do,
It makes no sense,
it's the rhythm that you go through.

I know what I want,
You just take me through the motions.
I know what I want,
And that's more than you can say. I know what I want,
You just take me through the motions.
I know what I want,
And that's more than you can say.

Since you found me out,
Since you found me out,
Since you found me out,
Since you found me out.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP7EiMwmGSk

I believe that this song represents identity because it is talking about how everyone has there own "rhythm" and that every want there own thing. I also think that is talks about how now a days people just go with it and don't do there own thing and copy everyone else.

The line that I think describes identity the most is " I know what I want, You just take me through the motions. I know what I want, And that's more than you can say."

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, -- that is genius. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.


I believe that this quote is very true because multiple times in different classes I have though of an idea that I think is very unique and it seems that always someone else thinks of the same idea. I think that this applies to the quote because Ralph says in the quote "to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men" which I believe describes it perfectly. I also believe what the quote is saying is that even though you may think you live in a world were everyone is a duplicate of one another you are still unique in your own way, and that is true genius.