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.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010
Odyssey 3 PIE assignment
For the Odyssey, the theme of the whole book is have good values. This gets demonstrated throughout the whole entire book.
In book 13, this was shown by Odysseus's great wisdom. The value of wisdom allows you to not have desires cloud your thoughts or decisions. Because Odysseus has great wisdom, he was able to realize that if he went running home to see his wife and son (even though the son wasn't home yet), he would be killed instantly by the suitors who have taken control of his home. Because Odysseus has great wisdom and makes wise decisions, Athena recognized him as wise and helped him for it. Athena even says that Odyssues is the wisest of all men on page 296 lines 329-339. "Any man-any god who met you-would have to be some champion lying cheat to get past you for all-round craft and guilee! You terrible man, foxy, ingenious, never tired of twists and tricks-so, not even here, on native soil, would you give up those wily tales that warm the cockles of your heart! Come, enough of this now. We'er both old hands at the arts of intrigue. Here amoung mortal men you're far the best at tactics, spinning yarns, and i am famous among the gods for wisdom, cunning wiles, too."
Book 16 was the next book that showed values being a key factor. In this book it was patients. When Telemachus first saw his father for the first time since he had left for the war in troy. But, because Telemachus was patient enough to listen to Odyssues prove himself on page 345 lines 229-242. " Telemachus, it's wrong to marvel, carried away in wonder so to see you father here before you eyes. No other Odysseus will ever return to you. That man and I are one, the man you see... here after many hardships, endless wanderings, after twenty years I have come home to native ground at last. My changing so? Athena's work, the Fighter's Queen-she has that power, she makes me look as she likes, now like a beggar, the next moment a young man, decked out in handsome clothes about my body. It's light work for the gods who rule the skies to exalt a mortal man or bring him low." Because Telemachus was patient to listen to Odysseus's story, he found out that the beggar was infact his father.
Book 19 is another book that shows values being of great importance. The value was respect. The maid that was to take care of Odysseus insulted him instead of caring for him. The maid did this but Odysseus warned here on pages 392-393 on lines 75-96. "What's possessed you, woman? Why lay into me? Such abuse! Just because I'm in filthy, because I wear such rags, roving around the country, living hand-to-mouth. But it's fate that drives me on: that's the lot of beggars, homeless drifters. I too once lived in a lofty house that men admired; rolling in wealth, I'd often give to a vagabone like myself, whoever he was, whatever need had brought him to my door. And crowds of servants I had, and lots of all it takes to live the life of ease, to make men call you rich. But Zues ruined it all- god's will, no doubt. So beware, woman, or one day you may lose it all, all your glitter that puts your work-mates in the shade. Or your mistress may just fly in a rage and dress you down or Odysseus may return-there's still room for hope! Or if he's dead as you think and never coming home, well there's his son, Telemachus... like father, like son-thanks to Apollo. No women's wildness here in the house escapes the prince's eye. He's come of age at last." Odysseus warned her to respect him but she didn't listen. And because of that, Penelope fired her and then she became homeless as Odysseus had.
In book 13, this was shown by Odysseus's great wisdom. The value of wisdom allows you to not have desires cloud your thoughts or decisions. Because Odysseus has great wisdom, he was able to realize that if he went running home to see his wife and son (even though the son wasn't home yet), he would be killed instantly by the suitors who have taken control of his home. Because Odysseus has great wisdom and makes wise decisions, Athena recognized him as wise and helped him for it. Athena even says that Odyssues is the wisest of all men on page 296 lines 329-339. "Any man-any god who met you-would have to be some champion lying cheat to get past you for all-round craft and guilee! You terrible man, foxy, ingenious, never tired of twists and tricks-so, not even here, on native soil, would you give up those wily tales that warm the cockles of your heart! Come, enough of this now. We'er both old hands at the arts of intrigue. Here amoung mortal men you're far the best at tactics, spinning yarns, and i am famous among the gods for wisdom, cunning wiles, too."
Book 16 was the next book that showed values being a key factor. In this book it was patients. When Telemachus first saw his father for the first time since he had left for the war in troy. But, because Telemachus was patient enough to listen to Odyssues prove himself on page 345 lines 229-242. " Telemachus, it's wrong to marvel, carried away in wonder so to see you father here before you eyes. No other Odysseus will ever return to you. That man and I are one, the man you see... here after many hardships, endless wanderings, after twenty years I have come home to native ground at last. My changing so? Athena's work, the Fighter's Queen-she has that power, she makes me look as she likes, now like a beggar, the next moment a young man, decked out in handsome clothes about my body. It's light work for the gods who rule the skies to exalt a mortal man or bring him low." Because Telemachus was patient to listen to Odysseus's story, he found out that the beggar was infact his father.
Book 19 is another book that shows values being of great importance. The value was respect. The maid that was to take care of Odysseus insulted him instead of caring for him. The maid did this but Odysseus warned here on pages 392-393 on lines 75-96. "What's possessed you, woman? Why lay into me? Such abuse! Just because I'm in filthy, because I wear such rags, roving around the country, living hand-to-mouth. But it's fate that drives me on: that's the lot of beggars, homeless drifters. I too once lived in a lofty house that men admired; rolling in wealth, I'd often give to a vagabone like myself, whoever he was, whatever need had brought him to my door. And crowds of servants I had, and lots of all it takes to live the life of ease, to make men call you rich. But Zues ruined it all- god's will, no doubt. So beware, woman, or one day you may lose it all, all your glitter that puts your work-mates in the shade. Or your mistress may just fly in a rage and dress you down or Odysseus may return-there's still room for hope! Or if he's dead as you think and never coming home, well there's his son, Telemachus... like father, like son-thanks to Apollo. No women's wildness here in the house escapes the prince's eye. He's come of age at last." Odysseus warned her to respect him but she didn't listen. And because of that, Penelope fired her and then she became homeless as Odysseus had.
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