Macbeth Predictions

Act 5 may bring the death of Macbeth, or perhaps the deaths of his opponents. What are your opinions? Who will survive? Who will reign as king of Scotland?

Macbeth ( The Witches Chant)

In Act 1, Scene 1 William Shakespeare opens with a great example of a chiasmus ( a chiasmus according to Websters dictionary is defined as "a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form"); that reads "fair is foul, and foul is fair." I believe the message of this can possibly be a major theme to the story because we see it put to action immediately when Macbeth kills King Duncan in hope to receive throne with the flee of his sons. It has me thinking maybe this quote can be put into action later on in the story once again. 

Shakespeare and Female-Characters

• Midsummer Night's Dream
• Othello
• Taming of the Shrew
• King Lear
• Macbeth
• Romeo & Juliet
• Hamlet

In all these plays, the women/girls are either crazily obsessive, evil, mean-spirited, and/or they die. So... is Shakespeare really fighting for feminism?
On one argument, you could say that he is because of the obvious negative personalities he gives his female characters (or negative ends).
Another, you could say that Shakespeare made most of his male characters dead or insane or, in Midsummer Night's Dream, permanently under a spell and therefore a loss of free-will, and that no one in a Shakespeare is given better treatment over another. 

I personally think Shakespeare was only interested in making his characters interesting even when most of them were meant to be plot-devices rather than complex and dimensional.
Maybe it's because he inspired some archetypes so these characters have been repeated, but that the very reason why characters like Lady Macbeth and Katharina don't particularly interest me like Juliet and Ophelia. It just feels like there's more to them in the plays then the plot they work in.

"Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses or else worth all the rest. "

 This soliloquy from Macbeth in act II, from my opinion, shows how Macbeth knew his actions were wrong he was fooled and gullible from Lady Macbeth, and in the end there will be a consequence. .

Macbeth

"Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand"
I don't remember exactly where within act II this little quote is from but I thought it was pretty interesting. Macbeth says this shortly after killing Duncan and I thought it was kind of a great example of Macbeths feeling of guilt and that even though, literally, Macbeth may wash off Duncans blood, figuratively, the blood will always be there just like his guilt.

Macbeth

I know we've only read Act I, but what do you think of the play so far? Any predictions on what might happen in the story, or what exactly the subplot was foreshadowing?

I'm glad we're done with romanticism and are moving onto more realistic and applicable type of literature.

Something you might want to know!

So I was having a pretty hard time picking one theme I wanted my sonnet to be about so I asked Ross some questions and turns out you can use multiple themes that are on the paper she gave out. So incase anyone was having trouble picking just one like me this post might help.

Theme of the Poem

Has anyone decided on what theme their poem is going to be on? or an ideas?

Kubla Khan Metaphors

We started reading Kubla Khan with the prior knowledge that it was a metaphor for sex, but did this knowledge bias our understanding of the poem? Could there be some other meaning that we overlooked because we already knew what we were looking for?

T.S. Eliot

Eliot's poem "Preludes" talks about how the modernization of  modern times has consequences. That consequence being how we lose our natural connection to nature and our freedom. Do you feel that you too are slipping away in our modern times?

Thoughts so far...

What do you guys think of the class so far?

Is anyone reading Native Son?

Sooooo...... Is anyone in AP reading Native Son by Richard Wright?