ACT 5 STUDY QUESTIONS

5.1 

1. Gentlewomen has seen lady Macbeth sleepwalk. She doesn't want to lie and wants the speech to be justified so the engle woman doesn't get in trouble for saying something wrong that lady Macbeth didn't say.

2. Lady Macbeth reveals her guilty actions of murders she has done. Subconscious will let out the guilt she feels when she cannot let it out consciously. He thinks he knows what she has done but he will not speak of it because it is based in assumption. 

5.4

Malcom is telling his soldiers to camouflage themselves so that Macbeths army can't see how many of them there are. 

I don't think that it will effect Macbeths decision. 5.

5.5

"The cry of women" signifies the death of Lady Macbeth. He is saying he is essentially too far gone to turn back and that life is just meaningless blip in  the life  of your immortal soul. There is a moving forest according to the messenger and Macbeth thinks that the messenger is lying and he says he will die if he truly lies. He now understands what the witches were talking about when they said to fear "Birnahm does come to Dunisane. He is not ready to lie down and take it he says that "at least we can die with harness at our back."

5.6

5.7

5.8

1. Macduff was looking for Macbeth because he wanted to fight him and kill him. Macduff didn't want to fight any of his soldiers, just Macbeth. It would haunt him if he didn't kill him.

5.9

1.  Malcolm and Siward are able to enter the castle so easily because everyone's fighting outside.  Everything is chaotic- the fighting between the two armies, Macbeth's and the Norwegians, provides a cover for Malcolm and Siward to enter the castle.

5.10

5.11

1. Siward did not seem sad about the death of his son, but rather proud that he died a man and died fighting. Siward mentioned how he had many other sons and as long as his son died bravely he was happy.

2. Malcolm promises that the men who helped him will be earls or lords to the king. These will be the first earls of Scotland. Malcolm says that Lady Macbeth killed her self because of her obsession with killing and evilness. As far as believing this, I think its possible, but I think the guilt of all her evil acts came back and made her sick and haunted her which led to her death. Also Macbeth tells the doctor to cure her of her delusions, which could possibly mean that Macbeth has his wife killed as well, but for her own benefit.

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Act 4 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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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.

Revisiting Today's Journal Topic

I believe that the author may be deceiving us in what type of ruler that Macbeth may be. Although Macbeth is seen as this horrible man who is a murderer, which is true, there is going to be a plot twist and Macbeth is going to be a great ruler. This is a possibility because of Macbeth's character that was presented in the beginning of the story. In the beginning of the story Macbeth was the sane one and knew that killing the King was not even an option, but when Lady Macbeth convinced him he changed a lot. This shows that when he finally becomes King he will return to his normal ways of being a sane and good person. This also has to do with the fact that Lady Macbeth is dead and can no longer pressure him into doing evil things. 

When I answer this question myself, I think that Macbeth will be a power hungry ruler that is very corrupt. I have a lot of evidence to support this because of all the evil things that Macbeth has done and crimes he has committed just to become King. But because Shakespeare is a writer with creativity and something that will be studied forever, I believe there is evidence that supports a plot twist in how Macbeth will rule the country. This is shown through lines from the beginning of the play. 

ACT 4 Active Reading Notes

Scene 1
The scene starts out with the three witches making their stew and adding in weird ingredients. The witches are singing their spells, when Hecate comes in a commends them for their work. One witch predicts that Macbeth is coming and he enters right after. Macbeth asks for their latest visions of the future and they come up with three very bad visions that bring out Macbeth's fear. The first vision is of a floating head which is supposed to warn Macbeth to beware of Macduff and what he wants to do to Macbeth. After hearing this Macbeth responds by saying he already had figured that. The next vision is a bloody child appears and tells him that no women will harm him. The third vision is a child holding a tree that tells Macbeth he is safe until some man by the name of Birnam Wood moves. Kings are walking by and at the end is Banquo's ghost and Macbeth demands the witches to tell him what the ghost of Banquo means. The witches do not tell him, but rather chant and then disappear. Lennox enters and informs Macbeth that Macduff has fled to England so Macbeth orders murderers to be sent to kill Macduff's wife and children.
Scene 2
This scene starts with Lady Macduff talking to Ross. Lady Macduff explains how her husband has left her and her children and that he is a traitor. Ross stands up for Macduff and says he is no traitor. Ross leaves and Lady Macduff and her son talk about what he will do with out a father because his father is dead. The son doesn't believe her but she says that he is traitorous and will be hanged because everyone who lies and swears is considered a traitor and therefore hung. A messenger enters to inform them that they are in danger. Lady Macduff questions whether she should stay and claim that she has done no wrong or flee and be safe. While thinking about it the murderers enter and talk badly about Macduff, his son stands up for him and his immediately killed. Lady Macduff runs and the murderers take off after her.
Scene 3
Macduff and Malcolm are talking and Malcolm is concerned that Macduff has betrayed him and is sided with Macbeth because Macduff left his children and wife all alone in England. In order to see if he can trust Macduff he begins going through his own morals and sees if he is fit for King, which he believes he isn't because of his greed and other bad characteristics. At first Macduff says that Malcolm is fit to be King and then his love for Scotland forces him to tell Malcolm that he is not fit to be King. Macduff passes the loyalty test and Malcolm tries to create an alliance between the two. A doctor enters and says there are many souls waiting to be cured by King Edward. Malcolm then explains how King Edward has this skill of curing diseases. Ross tries to lie to Macduff and tells him that his wife and children are fine and that Malcolm should return to his country after all that Macbeth is doing, but Malcolm will only return with an army of 10,000 men. Ross then breaks down and tells Macduff that his wife and all of his children have been murdered. Macduff is very heart broken and Malcolm encourages Macduff to change his pain into anger, but Macduff says I must also grieve like a man, but I will take my anger out and seek revenge at some point.

Macbeth With A Plot Twist

This story would have a totally different meaning and plot if Macbeth earned the throne through doing something good. It would change the tone from evil and to heroic because Macbeth formed this great talent that would have earned him power of the throne. The plot would be different in that there would still be witches but the witches would inspire Macbeth to find a talent rather than to kill the king and there would be no evil deaths or mischievous scenes that created mistrust and disloyalty. There would no longer be a theme of corruptness, but a theme of heroism and admiration. If the story took on this plot instead of the one it actually had, Lady Macbeth would have no role in the play because her only role was to encourage Macbeth to do whatever it took to get the power of the throne. I guess her role  could have been helping inspire him in building his talent and doing good things, but the story would be completely opposite if the story took on this plot. All of the character's actions would be the complete opposite. This would turn the story around in a 180 turn, but I think I would like that version better than this one.

Literature Analysis

Sorry for the lateness on this literature analysis, but first better late than never, and second better turned in late and done well then turned in on time and done half-assed.

1. Exposition:
The beginning of the book starts with the author describing the factory to kids who are on a tour. The Directer is leading the tour and the readers soon realize that the Director is very stern and educated. In the factory humans are being breaded in order to create many at a time and many that are similar. The humans are conditioned and brainwashed to believe a certain way. They are taught by repetition that is played while they are sleeping. They find parents as something that is not normal and believe all of their species is the same and should fulfill their responsibilities. The humans are split up into species based on their strength, like Alpha, Beta, Delta, etc. Lenina, Bernard, Henry and the Director are all introduced and are the main characters until John is introduced. Lenina sleeps around with Bernard and Henry, but has this ongoing attraction to Bernard, who is not very liked or seems odd to most.
Rising Action:
Bernard is one of the men in the story who does not really fit in with his species. He was born different from the other people, which is the driving force to his upcoming opinions. While Bernard and Lenina are on a date, Bernard begins to tell Lenina that she should be different from everyone else and is implying that she should go against the conditioning. Everyone is taught to live the Director's way of life, but in this moment Bernard is taking his first step at going against that way of living. Lenina is freaked out by this and wants nothing to do with it. Bernard is called in to talk to the director, who tells him to stop acting like this, but then slips into a personal story about his past. This story encourages Bernard to travel to the area and find the lady that the Director had been sleeping with, but had somehow disappeared. Bernard takes Lenina to the place where he might find the lady.
Conflict:
When Bernard and Lenina arrive at this place they come across this lady who knows their lifestyle and had lived it once. This lady is very friendly with them and talks with them about it very openly and in front of the people from her "world." Bernard soon realizes that this lady has a child and the child is the Director's son. The Director's son is John, who goes to the Brave New World with Bernard. While in the Brave New World John fights this battle between keeping with his life and tradition or conforming to the Brave New World. Bernard has been vanished from the world for his treason against the Director's rules.
Climax:
The climax of the story happens when John, also known as the savage, attracts a major crowd at the cabin he is living in. He starts by whipping himself, then when Lenina comes to help settle him down,  he starts to whip Lenina. John, the savage, is doing this in front of the entire crowd of people, who are cheering him on and encouraging him to keep going. During the whipping, John is yelling Orgy, porgy over and over and over again. At this moment John has let the Brave New World take him over. He had made a fool of himself in front of all of the people and had given into the traditions of the Brave New World.
Falling Action/Resolution:
The people go in to find the savage the next day, but find that he had hung himself. He had done this because he could not live with himself for going to the "bad" side and for the embarrassing scene he had been apart of the night before. Although the Brave New World had taken over him, he chose that he would rather be dead than live in this type of world. For him, The Brave New World won by taking him over, but it also lost because he didn't allow himself to live that lifestyle. For Bernard The Brave NewWorld won in that he was unable to change the minds of the people, but he won in that he didn't have the live the lifestyle he found unfit for him and got to escape the conditioned people.
The narrative shows the purpose of the author because it shows how easy it is to conform when there is so much pressure around you. It shows that no matter how much you question your values and your beliefs, societies pressures can overtake you and change the person that you are. The author was showing that Bernard stood up for what he believed in and made a change, but the savage was unable to fight off the pressures and eventually gave in. The characters contrasted the different paths that could have been taken.
2. The theme of this novel is the loss of individualism through technology and societal pressures. Technology is not only taking over the lives of the people in this book, but is also something that is very dominate in our world today. The characters are run by technology because they start in a technological device that determines the destiny of their life. This idea also ties into the fact that our society cannot be perfect without losing our humanity and individuality. This whole story is about losing ones own sense of an individuality, in order to create an overall society that is run "successfully."
3. The tone of the novel is satirical, which is shown in this line, "Solved by standard Gammas, unvarying Deltas, uniform Epsilons. Millions of identical twins. The principle of mass production at last applied to biology." Page 7 In these sentences the author is making fun of this application and being sarcastic.
"A troop of newly arrived students, very young, pink and callow, followed nervously, rather abjectly, at the Director's heels. Each of them carried a notebook, in which, whenever the great man spoke, he desperately scribbled." Page 4 These lines show how the author creates a juvenile tone in which he warns upcoming generations of what they will face if they don't make a change.
The author also displays a pedantic tone because of his attention to detail in describing the Brave New World. This is very important because the detail plays an important role in the plot of the story. "Still leaning against the incubators he gave them, while the pencils scurried illegibly across the pages, a brief description of the modern fertilizing process; spoke first, of course, of its surgical introduction...to undergo Bokanovsky's process." Page 5-6
4. a) "Wintriness responded to wintriness." Page 3 This is an example of repetition.
b)  "The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber." Page 3 This is an example of a metaphor which compares the white the workers where to the color of a corpse.
c) "Tall and rather thin but upright, the Director advanced into the room. He had a long chin and big rather prominent teeth, just covered, when he was not talking, by his full, floridly curved lips." Page 4 This is an example of imagery because the author paints the picture in the reader's mind of what the Director looks like.
d) Still leaning against the incubators he gave them, while the pencils scurried illegibly across the pages.." Page 5 This is an example of personification, which is used very often throughout the story.
e) "As soon as they got back to the rest-house, she swallowed six half-gramme tablets of soma, lay down on her bed, and within ten minutes had embarked for lunar eternity." Page 140 This is an example of symbolism because soma resembles a happy place and something to escape to when things get bad.
f) "Zip, and then zip; zip, and then zip; he was enchanted." Page 143 This is an example of onomatopoeia and contributes to the pedantic tone.
g) "My father! Pale, wide-eyed, the Director glared about him in an agony of bewildered humiliation." Page 152 This is an example of irony because when a father sees his child for the first time you would expect him to be happy, not embarrassed.
h) "'Which will finish her off in a month or two,' the doctor confided to Bernard." Page 154 This shows that the story was told in third person omniscient. The quotations show how the narrator knows the thoughts of others.
i) There is a common motif of sex. This is because parents are non existent, so the adults turn to sex as something that is just there, not for love or for a bond. The adults do things with no strings attached because that is what is expected of them.
j) "'...all wear green,' said a soft but very distant voice, beginning in the middle of a sentence, 'and Delta Children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta Children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta.'" Page 27 This is an example of repetition because it is repeated into the children's heads millions of times so that they will eventually believe what it is saying.

CHARACTERIZATION
1. "'He's so ugly!'" said Fanny." "'And then so small.' Fanny made a grimace; smallness was so horribly and typically low-caste." Page 46 This is an example of direct characterization and how everyone saw Bernard Marx.
"'Of course he does. Trust Henry Foster to be the perfect gentlemen-always correct...'" Page 42 This is an example of direct characterization on how society saw Henry Foster.
"'But I do,' he insisted. 'It makes me feel as though...' he hesitated, searching for words in which to express himself, 'as though I were more me, if you see what I mean. More on my own, not so completely a part of something else. Not just a cell in the social body. Doesn't it make you feel like that, Lenina?'" Page 90 This is an example of indirect characterization. It shows how Bernard is different than everyone else and wants to feel a sense of individuality.
"'Kill it, kill it, kill it...' The savage went on shouting. Then suddenly somebody started singing 'Orgy-porgy' and, in a moment, they had all caught up the refrain, and singing, had begun to dance." Page 258 This is an example of indirect characterization and shows how John or the savage gave into the Brave New World.
2. When the author is describing things he uses long and complex sentences and when the author is dealing with characters he uses dialogue. This is because the author uses fine detail so the sentences are full of many brief statements with particular details from the scene, but when the author is discussing a character he just wants the reader to understand the thoughts of the character.
"Still leaning against the incubators he gave them, while the pencils scurried illegibly across the pages, a brief description of the modern fertilizing process; spoke first, of course, of its surgical introduction-'the operation undergone..." Page 2 This sentence goes on for the rest of the page and on to the next page just describing all of the details of the scene.
"'My good boy!' The Director wheeled sharply round on him. 'Can't you see? Can't you see?' ..." Page 7 This is dialogue which shows what type of person the director is and gives insight into his character.
3. John and Bernard are both the protagonists of the story and they are both dynamic. Bernard starts of the story allowing the society and its pressure to control his life, but as the story develops he recognizes his desire for individuality and makes it become a reality. John also changes because in the beginning of the story he could not believe the lifestyle of the conditioned people and completely disagreed with it, but as the story moved on John gave into the pressures of society and conformed to the Brave New World. Both John and Bernard are round characters. Bernard is very complex as he is the odd one out from the beginning of his life and goes through this contemplation in his mind of whether he wishes to change himself or continue to be like everyone else. He is not the same as everyone else like all the other characters in this story, but rather one who decides to change himself. John is the same way he is very confused and in the beginning some of creativeness and individuality but later falls into the trap and becomes just another conditioned person.
4. I feel like I had read a character. It is really hard to feel like I've met a person when all of the characters are the same except a few and when it is hard to get connected to the book itself much less a character. It was difficult for me to get into the book because I didn't like what was happening in it and could only think about how to prevent that from ever happening to our society. Although John and Bernard were different and could have been potential characters that I would see as a person, it was still difficult because the main focus was still on conforming to the society and not being an individual. I felt no matter how hard the characters tried they would still never be truly individual because they were surrounded by so many conditioned people. "Drawn by fascination of the horror of pain and, from within, impelled by that habit of cooperation, that desire for unanimity and atonement, which their conditioning had so ineradicably implanted in them, they began to mime the frenzy of his gestures, striking at one another as the Savage struck at his own rebellious flesh, or at that plump incarnation of turpitude writhing in the heather at his feet." Page 258 This line is how the whole book is written and it hard for me to connect with any of the characters when all I can think about it the conditioned ones.