The theme to Things Fall Apart is that the white people’s conversion of the Ibo people was unjustifiably destructive. The white people first forced their way into the Ibo lands, then defied their customs, and lastly used the support of their government to convert them all.
When the white people first started coming in, they started to force their way in. I think that it is really weird that they Catholic church was so stubborn in trying to get a church built on the Ibo’s land (Ibo or Ibo’s will be referring to the Ibo people(‘s)). If someone says no, it generally means leave them alone. The missionaries in a way forced the Ibo to let them stay. They endlessly asked and badgered again and again to get some land to build a church until the Ibo’s had had enough with them and gave them some land in the forbidden forest. “It was not very easy getting the men of high title and the elders together… But the missionaries persevered, and in the end they were received by the rulers of Mbanta.” (pg. 148) This quote shows how the missionaries continuously kept asking for the leaders to get together to give them land. Now, asking for land is fine, but when someone is asking everyday repeatedly, eventually you just want to say yes so that they will stop asking you. That is how the white people first forced their way onto the Ibo people’s lands and started the process of unjustifiable destruction.
Next, the white people increased their favor in the Ibo’s land by probing them wrong. What better way to do that then by defying their customs and showing them that the white people’s customs are correct? “[The gods]…set their limit at seven market weeks or twenty-eight days. Beyond that limit no man was suffered to go… At last the day came by which all the missionaries should have died. But they were still alive.” (pg. 150-151) “On one occasion the missionaries had tried to overstep the bounds. Three converts had gone into the village and boasted openly that all the gods were dead… and that they were prepared to defy them by burning all their shrines.” (pg. 154) These 2 quotes show how the white people and their faith are defying the Ibo’s customs. There are many more too. They killed a python, they save twins, they even tell those rejected people to cut their long hair and remove their mark on them. Now, personally I’m against killing babies and in this case twins, but the Ibo’s have been doing this for a long, long time. Centuries possibly. How would you like it if suddenly some random person comes in and tells you that everything that you know is wrong, he’s right, and you have to follow all of his unspoken rules and believe in his beliefs. Not going to happen right? It takes time and generations to change customs in people and even then it is like a merge of the customs. You can’t just change the way that a people live overnight.
Lastly, the white people used “that” countries government to back them up in converting all of the Ibo’s. “These court messengers were greatly hated in Umuofia because they were foreigners and also arrogant and high -handed. They were called kotma…They guarded the prison, which was full of men who had offended against the white man’s law. Some of these prisioners had thrown away their twins…They were beaten in the prison by the kotma.” (pg. 174) They hurt the Ibo people to submit them to their ways even though they know nothing about those people and their customs which they have been living by for a long time. They just are backing up the white peoples beliefs only. Even near the end of the book, the kotma are sent by the church to break up a meeting of the clan so that they can’t plan against the white people. Okonkwo kills one of them before hanging himself but it just shows how they are backing up the church completely. If the Ibo would have gone to the kotma to break up a mass at church they would have refused and probably would have beat him/them up and thrown him/them all in jail because of that.
~Tesh
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Osama Bin Laden free write
I had heard about Osama getting killed while I was playing Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 on my Xbox (what irony). My dad had told me that something big was on the news and that I should go up and see. When I saw it I was kind of in disbelief. When I saw that it was in fact true, then I thought that it was weird that he was killed in a mansion next to a military base just outside the Pakistani capital. I had always imagined that he was being hidden by most of the middle east countries in a cave somewhere. I also always imagined that he would die somewhere in a cave from special forces. Then I got really worried because Al-Qaeda probably won’t let this go without some kind of retaliation. I mean, even if Osama wasn’t the true leader of them, he was the face of terrorism and of suicide bombers and of the extreme Muslims. This definitely hurts Al-Qaeda in one way or another. I mean, he was the guy who we couldn’t find for about 10 years even after he killed the most Americans on American soil ever. I mean, we find criminals who have committed smaller crimes faster then we could find Osama. It’s like Al-Qaeda is a gang that an army can’t take out or arrest. I just had a thought. You know how there are gang wars over land and drugs and stuff like that? What if we sent a bunch of gang members and leaders over into Al-Qaeda territory and had them start a gang out there? They could fight Al-Qaeda for the growth of Heroin, could fight them for land, and even for recruits. Kind of like fighting fire with fire. I guess we would probably be making a second gang like Al-Qaeda but at least they wouldn’t be suicide bombing people or at least people for religious reasons. So no more bomb threats on airplanes from terrorists, no more blowing up of U.S. agencies in other countries. Things would probably be a lot more peaceful over here. Then I guess that we would just be moving our problems to places where they already are having problems and in an area where there are a lot of key resources. I actually wonder what would happen if we and NATO just left the middle east. We just removed all troops and all support to the middle eastern countries and left them alone for about 20-30 years and just let them solve all of their own problems. Those countries would eventually form the way that the people want whether that means them retaliating or supporting someone. Ever since the end of WWI, the middle east has just gone crazy because the support and order they got from the Ottoman empire completely disappeared. Mostly it seems to me that the more the U.S. tries to help out, the more that we are getting them angry with us and getting ourselves into trouble with other nations.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Maus-Night Comparison
I think that Maus and Night should be read together. The reason is because both show two different sides to the story of how it was in the Haulocost. In Night it shows it as the Nazi's being a dillusion and that those rumors are not in fact true until you get to the camps and find out that the reality was actually worse then those rumors. In Maus it shows how the Nazi's slowly took apart the Jewish society and how they took away all of their rights.
In Night you read about Moshe how he had helped Elie learn more about the Jewish faith until disapperaing. When he came back and started telling people about what the Nazi's have been doing to Jews, people seiously didn't beleive him becaues it sounded so terrible that they couldn't grasp anyone being that evil. One person even said "He's just trying to make us pity him." Of course, it turns out that Moshe was wrong, what he said wasn't even half as bad as what actually happened. Moshe told how a girl took three days to die and how a father begged to be killed before his sons. That is not nearly as bad as digging your own grave to be burned in alive with a bunch of other people. Personally, I think that being burned to death is the worst way to go so for me that must have been absolutly terrible and knowing well too that you were going to be burned once you finished digging. Night we need to read because it brings us first hand into the horrors of the Haulocost.
Maus doesn't exactly go into detail about how peopled died a terrible death. Maus just states that they were shot or poisoned. It also showes how the Nazi's made it hard for the Jews to resist and brings us into light at the time of their accention into power and how they took more and more power away from the Jews. Slowly you see how Vladek can't do as much. Can't buy milk, curfew, food rationing, loss of property. Eventually he runs into a street where Nazi's are killing/beating innocent Jewish people who have followed all of their laws. Even if they had papers they were being beaten. The book also showed us how even if you were following all of the new laws that you were still at a huge risk of being transported to a concentration camp or just being flat out killed. The last thing that Maus showes us is how much will and wit and luck that you needed to survive through the Haulocost.
So we need to read both Maus and Night because they show 2 very important parts to the Haulocost. Night shows us the horrors and Maus shows us what happened when the Nazi's first came to power and how you needed luck and wit to survive as they grew in power.
In Night you read about Moshe how he had helped Elie learn more about the Jewish faith until disapperaing. When he came back and started telling people about what the Nazi's have been doing to Jews, people seiously didn't beleive him becaues it sounded so terrible that they couldn't grasp anyone being that evil. One person even said "He's just trying to make us pity him." Of course, it turns out that Moshe was wrong, what he said wasn't even half as bad as what actually happened. Moshe told how a girl took three days to die and how a father begged to be killed before his sons. That is not nearly as bad as digging your own grave to be burned in alive with a bunch of other people. Personally, I think that being burned to death is the worst way to go so for me that must have been absolutly terrible and knowing well too that you were going to be burned once you finished digging. Night we need to read because it brings us first hand into the horrors of the Haulocost.
Maus doesn't exactly go into detail about how peopled died a terrible death. Maus just states that they were shot or poisoned. It also showes how the Nazi's made it hard for the Jews to resist and brings us into light at the time of their accention into power and how they took more and more power away from the Jews. Slowly you see how Vladek can't do as much. Can't buy milk, curfew, food rationing, loss of property. Eventually he runs into a street where Nazi's are killing/beating innocent Jewish people who have followed all of their laws. Even if they had papers they were being beaten. The book also showed us how even if you were following all of the new laws that you were still at a huge risk of being transported to a concentration camp or just being flat out killed. The last thing that Maus showes us is how much will and wit and luck that you needed to survive through the Haulocost.
So we need to read both Maus and Night because they show 2 very important parts to the Haulocost. Night shows us the horrors and Maus shows us what happened when the Nazi's first came to power and how you needed luck and wit to survive as they grew in power.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Restrepo and Fallen Angels
1. The first guy to die in both the movie and the book greatly impacted how some of their comrades felt
2. Seeing the actual fear of the people makes Fallen Angels more real too
3. With Restrepo being real, it makes you see small real connections to Fallen Angels
4. A lot of what happened in Restrepo also happened in Fallen Angels like them calling in bombing runs
5. Johnson acted similar to that one guy in Restrepo when a close friend of theirs died. They were both kind of in disbelief
6. Everyone in movie and in book towards end wanted to just go home
7. Everyone was always afraid of the dark because you never know where your enemies were
8. Everyone was fighting disorganized armies like the Taliban or the Viet Cong
9. Both in the movie and the book the Americans tried to get the locals to support them instead of the Taliban or the Viet Cong
10. In both the movie and the book, the enemy would sometimes do suicide bombings like the little boy with the mine or the Taliban with the bombs strapped to them
What Restrepo and Fallen Angels has showed me about war is that war is the greatest and worst thing to ever happen. It's the worst thing to ever happen for obvious reasons; death, injury, dismemberment, loss, destruction. But amazingly, what both the movie and the book has shown me is what good war can also do. War brings people close, it makes people realistic and makes them question their way of living to make sure that people aren't believing in some random crap but in something that feels real. War also will show us who our real friends are and who are really the people who are just using us for whatever it is that they want.
2. Seeing the actual fear of the people makes Fallen Angels more real too
3. With Restrepo being real, it makes you see small real connections to Fallen Angels
4. A lot of what happened in Restrepo also happened in Fallen Angels like them calling in bombing runs
5. Johnson acted similar to that one guy in Restrepo when a close friend of theirs died. They were both kind of in disbelief
6. Everyone in movie and in book towards end wanted to just go home
7. Everyone was always afraid of the dark because you never know where your enemies were
8. Everyone was fighting disorganized armies like the Taliban or the Viet Cong
9. Both in the movie and the book the Americans tried to get the locals to support them instead of the Taliban or the Viet Cong
10. In both the movie and the book, the enemy would sometimes do suicide bombings like the little boy with the mine or the Taliban with the bombs strapped to them
What Restrepo and Fallen Angels has showed me about war is that war is the greatest and worst thing to ever happen. It's the worst thing to ever happen for obvious reasons; death, injury, dismemberment, loss, destruction. But amazingly, what both the movie and the book has shown me is what good war can also do. War brings people close, it makes people realistic and makes them question their way of living to make sure that people aren't believing in some random crap but in something that feels real. War also will show us who our real friends are and who are really the people who are just using us for whatever it is that they want.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Prewrite For Slaughter House V by Andrew Tesija
Please list 10 ways you can improve your essay scores
1. I could have stronger main points 6. Think my sentences through more so they are clearer
2. Better quotes that describe my idea better 7. Reread the book a little so it's easier to understand it
3. Do a better job explaining quote 8. Know what page my quotes are on to find them quick
4. Have a better idea of what I'm going to write 9. Plan it or do a prewrite
5. Have a smoother transition between paragraphs 10. Not be distracted when writing my essay
Please write any 15 thoughts about the book Slaughterhouse-5. For each thought, please refer to a specific part of the book that generated this thought (for instance, “It was funny” receives no credit; “It was funny when he described the Tralfamadorians” receives full credit).
1. I liked it how the author described death as "So it goes."
2. I liked the authors sexual humor like the description of the tralfamadorians.
3. I didn't like how the 3 plots would interrupt each other but...
4. ...I liked the time traveling that he wrote about because it put a nice spin on the whole book.
5. I liked how the whole book wasn't purely about war but it was completly related to it like everytime Billy was in a hospital there was a veteran of some kind always right next to him
6. I liked how everything was always similar or related like billy's honeymoon. The couple that were on the boat, the man's dad would later be next to Billy when he was in the hospital after the plane crash.
7. I liked how the author avoided talking about people dying, he just stated it matter of factly.
8. I liked how the author made very small details be interlinking like the black and orange paint on the POW germain train car was the same color of the tent at Billy's daughter's wedding
9. I liked how the author used the Tralfamadorians to talk about the human race from a different point of view.
10. I didn't like how the time traveling sometimes gave away some of the key parts of the book like how Billy always knew that Edgar Derby was going to die
11. I Liked why the climaxes were given away because it plays into everything always being seen in the 4th dimension. Like Edgar Derby will be and always have died then, but right now he's just fine. (before he died)
12. I liked how Billy was an optometrist because he studies eyes and their sight but he's learning that people are the only ones who see in the 3rd dimension.
13. I thought it was funny that the author made Billy die from being shot by a laser gun instead of a normal gun.
14. I liked the title of the book. It plays you into thinking that it is about massacer and slaughterings when it is really a thought provoking book.
15. I liked how the author sometimes showed certain events from some of the German soldiers' point of view.
State 5 possible themes for the book Slaughterhouse-5.
1. Time does not exist
2. Everything is related
3. Nothing is by accident
4. Life is meaningless
5. War is wierd
Write a conversation between yourself and Billy Pilgrim in which he tries to teach you a lesson based on his own experiences. You must explain IN DEPTH at least 3 specific events and details from the book in order to receive full credit. This conversation should go on as long as it takes to demonstrate YOUR UNDERSTANDING of Billy’s experiences.
B: Hello Tesh
T: Hello Billy
B: You know what's really wierd?
T: what?
B: You know my favorite author?
T: yea, you always have one of his books with you
B: well, turns out that he has only gotten one letter and it was from that guy who was in the veterans hospital with me! What's his name, Rosewater?
T: I think so. Wow that's wierd.
B: Yea, but I don't think that that was a coincidence.
T: Hey, I saw you on TV yesterday talking about that theory that everything is in the 4th dimension.
B: Did you?
T: yea! where did you come up with that?
B: I did while I was on Tralfamador after being captured by the Tralfamadorians.
T: Who?
B: nevermind, what they taught me though was that we are the only species that they know of that don't see everything at once. We only see everything in order as it happens.
T: Wow that's wierd.
B: I know but it makes sense sometimes. But it's hard to grasp that time has no meaning. It doesn't even exist.
T: Oh, and I heard that had a wife! I'm so sorry for your loss.
B: It's not a loss. She's really still alive in another time. I just won't think about the times that she isn't.
T: You're not even sad that she died?
B: You know, strangly, after I came back from Tralfamador, I stopped caring about people dying.
T: WHAT?
B: yea, one death or life just doesn't mean much anymore. I mean, if we are always alive in another time, why do we need to be sad if they have died in this time?
T: I don't know.
B: I got to go.
T: Bye
EXAMPLE:
Billy: Hello, Mr. Cheng
Mr. Cheng: Hi Billy
Billy: Have you heard about Tralfamadore?
Mr. Cheng: No, what’s that?
Billy: It’s a planet where they... etc.
1. I could have stronger main points 6. Think my sentences through more so they are clearer
2. Better quotes that describe my idea better 7. Reread the book a little so it's easier to understand it
3. Do a better job explaining quote 8. Know what page my quotes are on to find them quick
4. Have a better idea of what I'm going to write 9. Plan it or do a prewrite
5. Have a smoother transition between paragraphs 10. Not be distracted when writing my essay
Please write any 15 thoughts about the book Slaughterhouse-5. For each thought, please refer to a specific part of the book that generated this thought (for instance, “It was funny” receives no credit; “It was funny when he described the Tralfamadorians” receives full credit).
1. I liked it how the author described death as "So it goes."
2. I liked the authors sexual humor like the description of the tralfamadorians.
3. I didn't like how the 3 plots would interrupt each other but...
4. ...I liked the time traveling that he wrote about because it put a nice spin on the whole book.
5. I liked how the whole book wasn't purely about war but it was completly related to it like everytime Billy was in a hospital there was a veteran of some kind always right next to him
6. I liked how everything was always similar or related like billy's honeymoon. The couple that were on the boat, the man's dad would later be next to Billy when he was in the hospital after the plane crash.
7. I liked how the author avoided talking about people dying, he just stated it matter of factly.
8. I liked how the author made very small details be interlinking like the black and orange paint on the POW germain train car was the same color of the tent at Billy's daughter's wedding
9. I liked how the author used the Tralfamadorians to talk about the human race from a different point of view.
10. I didn't like how the time traveling sometimes gave away some of the key parts of the book like how Billy always knew that Edgar Derby was going to die
11. I Liked why the climaxes were given away because it plays into everything always being seen in the 4th dimension. Like Edgar Derby will be and always have died then, but right now he's just fine. (before he died)
12. I liked how Billy was an optometrist because he studies eyes and their sight but he's learning that people are the only ones who see in the 3rd dimension.
13. I thought it was funny that the author made Billy die from being shot by a laser gun instead of a normal gun.
14. I liked the title of the book. It plays you into thinking that it is about massacer and slaughterings when it is really a thought provoking book.
15. I liked how the author sometimes showed certain events from some of the German soldiers' point of view.
State 5 possible themes for the book Slaughterhouse-5.
1. Time does not exist
2. Everything is related
3. Nothing is by accident
4. Life is meaningless
5. War is wierd
Write a conversation between yourself and Billy Pilgrim in which he tries to teach you a lesson based on his own experiences. You must explain IN DEPTH at least 3 specific events and details from the book in order to receive full credit. This conversation should go on as long as it takes to demonstrate YOUR UNDERSTANDING of Billy’s experiences.
B: Hello Tesh
T: Hello Billy
B: You know what's really wierd?
T: what?
B: You know my favorite author?
T: yea, you always have one of his books with you
B: well, turns out that he has only gotten one letter and it was from that guy who was in the veterans hospital with me! What's his name, Rosewater?
T: I think so. Wow that's wierd.
B: Yea, but I don't think that that was a coincidence.
T: Hey, I saw you on TV yesterday talking about that theory that everything is in the 4th dimension.
B: Did you?
T: yea! where did you come up with that?
B: I did while I was on Tralfamador after being captured by the Tralfamadorians.
T: Who?
B: nevermind, what they taught me though was that we are the only species that they know of that don't see everything at once. We only see everything in order as it happens.
T: Wow that's wierd.
B: I know but it makes sense sometimes. But it's hard to grasp that time has no meaning. It doesn't even exist.
T: Oh, and I heard that had a wife! I'm so sorry for your loss.
B: It's not a loss. She's really still alive in another time. I just won't think about the times that she isn't.
T: You're not even sad that she died?
B: You know, strangly, after I came back from Tralfamador, I stopped caring about people dying.
T: WHAT?
B: yea, one death or life just doesn't mean much anymore. I mean, if we are always alive in another time, why do we need to be sad if they have died in this time?
T: I don't know.
B: I got to go.
T: Bye
EXAMPLE:
Billy: Hello, Mr. Cheng
Mr. Cheng: Hi Billy
Billy: Have you heard about Tralfamadore?
Mr. Cheng: No, what’s that?
Billy: It’s a planet where they... etc.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Siddhartha Blogging assignment
Some of the topics which we had disscussed in class was how Siddhartha was treating Govinda and how Siddhartha is always changing his views to meet his goal of Nirvana. These topics are intresting to me because the both relate to me. Siddhartha's relationship with Govinda is like me and my brother. We both are a little mean to our friend/brother but we do it with our best intentions. Siddhartha left Govinda because they needed to follow their own paths. Siddhartha even said that, "Now you are a man and have chosen your own path. May you go along it to the end my friend. May you find salvation!". I will sometimes tell my brother to stop doing what I did because I did it. That he should be able to do what he wants to do because it's his choice. Siddhartha also talked about reaching his goal. He always set his sights on something and always took the fastest way to reaching it and lets nothing get in his way of reaching his goal. "Listen, Kamala," stats Siddhartha, "when you throw a stone into the water, it finds the quickest way to the bottom of the water. It is the same when Siddhartha has an aim, a goal. Siddhartha does nothing; he waits, he thinks, he fasts, but he goes through the affairs of the world like the stone through the water, without doing anything, without bestirring himself; he is drawn and lets himself fall. He is drawn by his goal for he does not allow anything to enter his mind which opposes his goal." This also applies to me since I am always aiming for my goal. Now I may not go to the extreme of fasting to reach it, but I work hard and try very hard to reach my goals. If I don't, then I am dissapointed but then try harder.
-Tesh
-Tesh
Sunday, December 12, 2010
5 Quotes from MacBeth that are about being a man
1. pg. 33 lines 47-50
Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood. -Lady MacBeth
Lady MacBeth has just read MacBeth's letter to her about his crossing with the three witches and she has just been told that the king is going to their house tonight with MacBeth. Lady MacBeth was talking to herself about how she feels like she needs to be more like a man and how she needs to become all evil.
This quote tells how men are very cruel and evil but stronger then woman. How we are cruel enough to do anything and not feel bad about it. And also that we can do more then woman because we have more strength then them.
2. pg 43 lines 53-58
What beast was 't then, that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; and to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man. -Lady MacBeth
Lady MacBeth is criticizing MacBeth for trying to talk her out from their plan to kill Duncan to gain Kingship. She feels angry and betrayed by MacBeth.
Lady MacBeth here says that you aren't a man if you back out from your promises. You need to go through with everything that you say that you will or else you are not a man, no matter how evil your promise is.
3. pg 43 lines 60-67
They have made themselves, and that their fitness now does unmake you. I have given suck, and know how tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked out my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this.
-Lady MacBeth
Lady MacBeth is now telling MacBeth how much stronger she is then him. How he needs to start acting like a man or become more like her (a woman).
This shows that men have to be able to overcome anything that comes in their way of their goal. Here, Lady MacBeth does it through telling him that she could starve her own new born baby and watch it die if she promised that she would do it.
4. pg 167 lines 10-12
There is Siward's son and many unrough youths that even now protest their first of manhood. -Lenox
Malcolm's army has just arrived at MacBeth's castle. They were thinking of a strategic spot to be in when they started talking about who will be there at the battle
What Shakespeare shows is that the young boys who are in this fight are becoming men by participating it the battle. It shows that to be a man you have to be able to fight and hold your ground for your beliefs and thoughts.
5. pg 187-189 lines 45-48
He Only lived but till he was a man, the which no sooner had his prowess confirmed in the unshrinking station he fought, but like a man he died. -Ross
Malcolm, Ross and Siward were talking about the battle that they won when they realized that Siward's son wasn't alive. Ross told Siward that he had fought bravely and died as a man and not a boy.
This shows that Men can only leave a fight in 2 ways, victory or death. Men cannot run from a fight or they are seen as woman.
Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood. -Lady MacBeth
Lady MacBeth has just read MacBeth's letter to her about his crossing with the three witches and she has just been told that the king is going to their house tonight with MacBeth. Lady MacBeth was talking to herself about how she feels like she needs to be more like a man and how she needs to become all evil.
This quote tells how men are very cruel and evil but stronger then woman. How we are cruel enough to do anything and not feel bad about it. And also that we can do more then woman because we have more strength then them.
2. pg 43 lines 53-58
What beast was 't then, that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; and to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man. -Lady MacBeth
Lady MacBeth is criticizing MacBeth for trying to talk her out from their plan to kill Duncan to gain Kingship. She feels angry and betrayed by MacBeth.
Lady MacBeth here says that you aren't a man if you back out from your promises. You need to go through with everything that you say that you will or else you are not a man, no matter how evil your promise is.
3. pg 43 lines 60-67
They have made themselves, and that their fitness now does unmake you. I have given suck, and know how tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked out my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this.
-Lady MacBeth
Lady MacBeth is now telling MacBeth how much stronger she is then him. How he needs to start acting like a man or become more like her (a woman).
This shows that men have to be able to overcome anything that comes in their way of their goal. Here, Lady MacBeth does it through telling him that she could starve her own new born baby and watch it die if she promised that she would do it.
4. pg 167 lines 10-12
There is Siward's son and many unrough youths that even now protest their first of manhood. -Lenox
Malcolm's army has just arrived at MacBeth's castle. They were thinking of a strategic spot to be in when they started talking about who will be there at the battle
What Shakespeare shows is that the young boys who are in this fight are becoming men by participating it the battle. It shows that to be a man you have to be able to fight and hold your ground for your beliefs and thoughts.
5. pg 187-189 lines 45-48
He Only lived but till he was a man, the which no sooner had his prowess confirmed in the unshrinking station he fought, but like a man he died. -Ross
Malcolm, Ross and Siward were talking about the battle that they won when they realized that Siward's son wasn't alive. Ross told Siward that he had fought bravely and died as a man and not a boy.
This shows that Men can only leave a fight in 2 ways, victory or death. Men cannot run from a fight or they are seen as woman.
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