macbeth groups

sg…. Post articles of criticism about the play. Elisha Tim Joyce Amy Julia



sg….Make a bulletin board about Shakespeare and his works. Post a picture of Shakespeare in the center of your board. Post a little biography of Shakespeare under it. All around the board, write the titles of all the plays he wrote or post little "playbills" for each of his plays.
Jia Chrsty Carlos Amanda Jenny

sg…Create a world map on your bulletin board with an enlarged map of Scotland beside it.
Doris Kelvin Alisha Mert Linda

sg…. Do a bulletin board about careers in politics, government and/or the military.
William Jian Chao Ronald Andrey Alanna

sg…... Spend a period with a film or slide presentation of castles in England and Scotland.
Jamiee Ahsan Sophia Isabela Julia

sg…. Title the board: GHOSTS, WITCHES, VISIONS AND APPARITIONS IN Macbeth. Draw pictures of all of the ghosts, witches, visions and apparitions in Macbeth.
Margarita Jaycy Hashim Steven Anna

due dates and reading schedule for week of dec 5

Homework:

Due Tuesday 1 Directions: For one of the statements, respond by writing a “Deep Thoughts” response of 500 words or more in MLA format as to why you have the belief you do. (anticipation handout)

Due Monday 2. Read Act One, Scene Two-Scene Four, Tuesday Scene Three to Scene Seven

Due on Friday 3 On the “Blog” Act One due on Friday

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Act One

10. What is Lady Macbeth's "prayer" to the spirits after she learns Duncan is coming"?
11. What advice does Lady Macbeth give Macbeth when he arrives home?
12. What are Macbeth's arguments to himself against killing Duncan?
13. What arguments does Lady Macbeth use to convince Macbeth to commit the murder?
14. What is Lady Macbeth's plan?

Act Two
11. Macduff says, "Oh, gentle lady, 'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak. The repetition,
in a woman's ear, Would murder as it fell." What is ironic about this?
12. What excuse or explanation did Macbeth give for killing the guards (grooms)? What
is his real reason?
13. Why do Malcolm and Donalbain leave?
14. Why does Ross not believe Malcolm and Donalbain were responsible for Duncan's
murder?

Act Three
6. Who else was missing from the banquet table (besides Banquo)?
7. Macbeth says, "I am in blood Stepped in so far that should I wade no more, Returning
were as tedious as go o'er." What does he mean?
8. What does Hecate want the witches to do?
9. What does Lennox think about Macbeth, Fleance, and Duncan's sons?

Act Four
7. Why does Lady Macduff's son say liars and swearers are fools?
8 Malcolm says, "Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Though all things foul
would wear the brows of grace, Yet grace must still look so." What does that mean?
9. Macduff says, "Oh, Scotland, Scotland!" Why?
10. What news does Ross bring to Macduff?

Act 5
7. Who first fights Macbeth? What happens?
8. Macbeth says to Macduff, "But get thee back, my soul is too much charged With blood of thine already." To what is he referring?
9 When does Macbeth know he's in trouble?
10 How does Macbeth die?
11 Who will be King of Scotland?

macbeth

SHORT ANSWER - Macbeth
Act One
1. What is the point of the first scene literally and in reference to the whole play?
What does Duncan call Macbeth when he hears Macbeth has defeated Macdonwald?
3. Who is sentenced to death?
4. What do the witches predict in I.iii for Macbeth? For Banquo?
5. What news does Ross bring Macbeth?
6. Banquo, like Macbeth, is surprised that the witches have predicted Macbeth's new title.
He is, however, leery. What does he say about the motives of the "instruments of
darkness"?
7. Malcolm describes Cawdor's last moments before execution. What is Duncan's reply?
8. Macbeth says, "Stars, hide your fires, Let not light see my black and deep desires." What
are Macbeth's desires?
9 After Lady Macbeth reads the letter, what does she tell us is her opinion of Macbeth,
and how does she plan to help him?

10. What is Lady Macbeth's "prayer" to the spirits after she learns Duncan is coming"?
11. What advice does Lady Macbeth give Macbeth when he arrives home?
12. What are Macbeth's arguments to himself against killing Duncan?
13. What arguments does Lady Macbeth use to convince Macbeth to commit the murder?
14. What is Lady Macbeth's plan?

Act II
1. What is Macbeth's lie to Banquo about the witches' predictions?
What is the signal Lady Macbeth is to give Macbeth to let him know that she has taken
care of the guards (grooms)?
3. What excuse does Lady Macbeth give for not killing Duncan herself?
4. After Macbeth kills Duncan, he goes to Lady Macbeth and is concerned about not being
able to say "Amen." What is her advice to him?
5. Then, Macbeth is worried about hearing a voice saying, "Macbeth does murder sleep."
What does Lady Macbeth then tell him to do?
6. Why won't Macbeth take the daggers back to the scene of the crime?
7. Who was knocking?
8. What three things does drinking provoke?
9. How does Lennox describe the night, and what is Macbeth's response?
10. What did Macduff discover?
11. Macduff says, "Oh, gentle lady, 'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak. The repetition,
in a woman's ear, Would murder as it fell." What is ironic about this?
12. What excuse or explanation did Macbeth give for killing the guards (grooms)? What
is his real reason?
13. Why do Malcolm and Donalbain leave?
14. Why does Ross not believe Malcolm and Donalbain were responsible for Duncan's
murder?


Act III
1 Why does Macbeth want Banquo and Fleance dead?
2. What is Macbeth's plan for killing Banquo and Fleance? Does it work?
3. Macbeth says, "The worm that's fled Hath nature that in time will venom breed, No
teeth for the present." What does that mean?
4. Who (what) did Macbeth see at the banquet table?
5. How does Lady Macbeth cover for Macbeth at the banquet? What excuses does she give for his wild talk?
6. Who else was missing from the banquet table (besides Banquo)?
7. Macbeth says, "I am in blood Stepped in so far that should I wade no more, Returning
were as tedious as go o'er." What does he mean?
8. What does Hecate want the witches to do?
9. What does Lennox think about Macbeth, Fleance, and Duncan's sons?

Act IV
1. Witch 2 says, "By the pricking of my thumb, Something wicked this way comes." Who
comes?
2. What is Macbeth's attitude towards the witches this time?
3 What four things did the witches show Macbeth? What does each show/say? What isMacbeth's reaction?
4. Macbeth says (about the witches), "Infected be the air whereon they ride, And damned
all those that trust them!" What is Macbeth, in effect, saying about himself?
5. Where is Macduff?
Why does Macbeth have Macduff's family and servants killed?
7. Why does Lady Macduff's son say liars and swearers are fools?
8 Malcolm says, "Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Though all things foul
would wear the brows of grace, Yet grace must still look so." What does that mean?
9. Macduff says, "Oh, Scotland, Scotland!" Why?
10. What news does Ross bring to Macduff?

Act V
1. What do the doctor and gentlewoman see Lady Macbeth doing? What do they decide
to do about it?
2 What does Macbeth want the doctor to do for his wife?
3. What trick does Malcolm use to hide the number of men in his army?
4 Malcolm says, "And none serve with him but constrained things Whose hearts are
absent, too." What does that mean?
5. What is Macbeth's reaction to Lady Macbeth's death?
6. What is Macbeth's reaction to the news that Birnam Wood is moving?
7. Who first fights Macbeth? What happens?
8. Macbeth says to Macduff, "But get thee back, my soul is too much charged With blood of thine already." To what is he referring?
9 When does Macbeth know he's in trouble?
10 How does Macbeth die?
11 Who will be King of Scotland?

vocabulary due monday oct 31

Essay must be completed for MONDAY!!!

eminder: Vocabulary words are due next Monday…will be counted as test grade
Vocabulary: Due on Monday
tirade premediated plausible
heinous odious interminable
implaable sinewy respite consumated

Follow the format that you were given in class. This assignment will be graded. Do not plagiarize the sentences. This constitutes a zero.

vocab

Vocabulary
oilcloth repulsive plateau asphodels tamarisks veranda promontory trawler bungalow mannerism adversary exceptional
part II
magistrate tic prosecution snide counsel taciturn fidgety brandished conviction indignantly irrationally cordial commotion subdued intently acquitted oasis tormented cortege

homework for the Stranger

Homework Assignment

Chapters 1 & 2
(
Chapter 1

6. Describe Meursault’s dream-like experience beginning on page 9. What is happening?

7. What is the purpose of holding a vigil? How long does it last?

8. What is Thomas Perez’s relationship with Maman?

9. How do they reach the church? How long does it take? How is the casket transported?

10. What are three (3) of Meursault’s last thoughts of the burial?

Chapter 2

1. Who does Meursault meet the day after his mother is buried?

2. On page 21, what hint is the reader given as to where Meursault lives?

3. What does Meursault choose to do on Sunday? What does this demonstrate about his character/personality?

4. What does Meursault mean when he says, "It occurred to me....really, nothing had changed." (See last sentence on page 24 for clarification).


The Stranger - Chapters 3 - 6
Chapter 3

5. What prompted Raymond’s fight with "the man"?

6. What prompted Raymond to beat his girlfriend "till she bled"?

7. What does Meursault do for Raymond to have Ray say, "Now you’re a pal, Meursault."

Chapter 4

1. What do Meursault and Marie hear coming from Raymond’s room? What is happening?

2. How do you know if Meursault is upset or calm about what just happened?

3. What happens to Salamano’s dog?

4. How does Salamano react?

Chapter 5

3. What opportunity does Meursault’s boss offer?

4. What offer does Marie propose?

5. In your opinion, is Meursault’s behavior normal regarding his job and his girlfriend? Why/why not?

6. What explanation can you offer as to why Meursault follows the woman from Celeste’s?

Chapter 5 (continued)

7. What two places does Salamano check for his missing dog?

8. During a brief discussion between Salamano and Meursault, what new information does Salamano convey about Meursault’s Maman?

9. How has Salamano’s loss brought out his humanitarianism? Give one example.

Chapter 6

10. Why don’t the Arabs react to this discussion unfolding directly in front of them?

11. On page 57, Meursault returns to the beach by himself. Camus uses symbolism when he states "There was the same dazzling red glare," and "With every blade of light...". In your opinion, what is being inferred?

12. When Meursault encounters the lone Arab, he is once again overcome by the sun’s heat. What event does the heat force him to recall?

13. What occurs to "shatter the harmony" of Meursault’s day?

14. Why does Meursault feel threatened and consequently pull out a gun?

15. On page 59 (last sentence), what is meant by "it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness." Explain briefly.


The Stranger - Part II
Chapter 1 - Part II

4. What explanation does Meursault give regarding his "nature"?

5. How many times did Meursault fire his revolver?

6. The magistrate becomes frustrated with Meursault. What does he retrieve from his filing cabinet?

7. What’s the BIG question the magistrate finally asks Meursault?

8. On p. 70, Meursault says, "I thought about it for a minute and said that more than sorry I felt kind of annoyed." Does Meursault have a conscience? Why or why not?

9. In your opinion, does Meursault feel complemented when referred to as Monsieur Antichrist?

Chapter 2 - Part II

1. Briefly describe Meursault’s prison cell. Is this what he had expected?

2. Who is Meursault’s first visitor?

3. Describe Marie’s mood during the visit.

4. In a sense, what item was more difficult for Meursault to lose than his freedom?

5. On p. 79, Meursault states that having "a memory" is "an advantage." Briefly explain.

6. The last sentences on p. 81 refer to Meursault’s mother’s funeral and to what nights in prison are like. In your opinion, is there a connection between the two?

Chapter 3 - Part II

4. A previous incident occurred between the caretaker and Meursault, which is briefly discussed during the trial. This leads to Camus’ title of the novel. What is the incident?

5. When Celeste, the fourth witness, is called to testify, how does he show support for Meursault?

6. How does the prosecutor attempt to prove that Meursault has no conscience?

7. What is the prosecutor implying when he questions Raymond? (refers to "chance" numerous times.)

8. Explain what Meursault means when he says, "it was back to my cell...sleep of the innocent. (p.97)

Chapter 4 - Part II

5. Does Meursault have faith that his attorney will convince the jury of his innocence?

6. Imagism is used on p. 104. "left me with the impression.... Was making me dizzy." In your opinion, what is Meursault feeling at this point?

7. Why can’t Meursault return Marie’s smile in the courtroom?

8. What is Meursault’s sentence? In your opinion, is his reaction normal?

Chapter 5 - Part II

4. When Meursault’s situation finally "sinks in", what are the two things he always thinks about?
5. What is Meursault’s pessimistic view on life and living?
6. Is Meursault a religious person? How do you know?
7. Meursault shows no respect for religion or the priest. Give one example of this.
8. What does the priest mean when he says, "your heart is blind."
9. In the last few paragraphs, how does Meursault finally relate to Maman?
10. Why does Meursault wish that a large crowd of spectators greet him with cries of hate at his execution.

lexi

Lexi Martinelli is an intelligent and motivated student. She is knowledgeable about what she needs to do in order to have a successful life. In addition, she is motivated to be successful. Lexi is an outstanding student. She is a student of excellence, and I am very proud of her. She works hard to make sure that her work is done correctly, and she doesn’t get frazzled by hard work. In essence, Lexi is a very intuitive student; she understands the work when explained to her, and she is good with following directions. She uses opportunities for advancement in learning with alacrity and a positive attitude. She is a student that will go very far in life, and I greatly admire her. Moreover, I know that she will have a very successful future. I wish her well in the future and in the present.

Sincerely,

Ms. Fraser

for students working on existentialism

This might be of help. Use what you need.


Existentialism is the philosophy that places emphasis on individual existence, freedom, and choice. Existentialism stresses the individuality of existence and the problems that arise with said existence. From Sartre and Kierkegaard to Nietzsche and Heidegger there is much diversity in the philosophy of existentialism, so a concrete definition is hard to settle upon. Certain themes are common to almost all existential writing, which helps mark the writing as such. The term itself suggests one major theme, the stress on concrete, individual existence, and on subjectivity, individual freedom and choice.

"Existentialism”
by Professor Gordon E. Bigelow

Existentialism is much like Transcendentalism and Feminism because there are several kinds of existentialism and what one says of one kind may not be true of another. There are almost as many varieties of these –isms as there are individual writers to whom the word is applied; however, there should be an area of agreement. Existentialism is a loose term for the reaction, led by Kierkegaard, against the abstract rationalism of Hegel’s philosophy. Kierkegaard insisted on the irreducibility of the subjective, personal dimension of human life.

Today we have existential Marxism, existential sociology, existential psychoanalysis, existential theology…the general feature of these hybrids is an emphasis on the irreducibility of the perspective of human agents, whose activities, emotions, and thoughts are understood in terms of their aspiration to become an individual.

Six major themes of Existentialism – Some group the existentialists into two major camps: the ungodly and the godly.

Ungodly (These French writers had significant experience in the Resistance during the Nazi occupation of France in WW II. Out of the despair which came with the collapse of their nation they found unexpected strength in the single indomitable human spirit. Even under severe torture, they maintained the spirit of resistance, the un-extinguishable ability to say, “No.” “I can say No, therefore I exist.” Sartre and Camus fall within this realm. Simone de Beauvoir brought to existentialist morality, which exalted freedom, awareness of the importance of the social context of choice, and in particular of the power relations between the sexes.

Godly: Kierkegaard; Marcel and Maritain (Catholic); Tillich and Berdyaev (Protestant)
and Buber (Jewish)

Other Existentialists: Pascal, Nietzsche (who coined the phrase “God is dead.”) Theme of spiritual barrenness is commonplace in literature of the 20th century. Spiritual emptiness appears in Eliot, Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck, and Anderson. Anderson argued that Puritanism and the industrialism which was its offspring had sterilized modern life, and proposed that men return to a healthful animal vigor by renewed contact with simple things of the earth, among them untrammeled sexual expression.), Bergson, Heidegger, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky




Common Themes of Existentialism

Existence Precedes Essence.
Human life is understandable only in terms of an individual man’s existence, his particular experience of life. A man lives rather than is, and every man’s experience is unique, radically different from everyone else’s and can be understood truly only in terms of his involvement in life or commitment to it.

There is no Platonic ideal of man—there is no universal of human nature of which each man is only one example. Don’t ask “What is mankind?” Ask: “Who am I?”

The existentialist insists that each person is unique. He is an entire universe—the center of infinity.

2. Absurdity: life is absurd and reason is impotent to deal with the depths of human life
Human reason is relatively weak and imperfect and there are dark places in human life which are “non-reason” and to which reason scarcely penetrates.

Myth of Phaedrus—Plato describes the psyche in the myth of the chariot which is drawn by the white steeds of the emotions and the black unruly steeds of the appetites. The driver of the chariot is Reason who holds the reins which control the horses and the whip to subdue the surging black steeds of passion. Only the driver, the rational nature, is given human form; the rest of the psyche, the non-rational part, is given a lower, animal form. This separation and exaltation of reason is carried further in the allegory of the cave in the Republic.

Existentialism insists upon reuniting the lower or irrational parts of the psyche with the higher. It insists that man must be taken in his wholeness and not in some divided state, that whole man contains not only intellect but also anxiety, guilt, and the will to power—which modify and sometimes overwhelm the reason. A man seen in this light is fundamentally ambiguous, if not mysterious, full of contradictions and tensions which cannot be dissolved simply by taking thought.

Alienation or Estrangement
Because of the dissociation of reason from the rest of the psyche, we have SCIENCE, a hallmark of Western civilization. Since the Renaissance we have progressively separated man from concrete earthy existence, and forced him to live at a high level of abstraction. We have collectivized individual man out of existence, driven God from the heavens or from the hearts of men. Man lives in alienation from God, from nature, from other men, from his own true self. Man’s estrangement from nature has been a major theme in literature since Rousseau and the Romantic Movement, and is not really exclusive property of the existentialists. But the existentialists worry about the walls of industry and technology which shut us off from nature and from one another.
Crowding of people into cities
Subdivision of labor
Burgeoning of centralized government
Growth of advertising, propaganda and the mass media of entertainment and communication

These things drive us asunder by destroying individuality and making us live on the surface of life, content to deal with things rather than people.

Man’s estrangement from his own true self – Hawthorne illustrates this in Ethan Brand, Dr. Rappaccini, and Roger Chillingworth – dislocation in human nature which results when an overdeveloped or misapplied intellect severs the magnetic chain of human sympathy. Sanctity of the individual human soul—preoccupation with sin which illustrates the dark side of human nature which must be seen in part as his attempt to build back some fullness to the flattened image of man bequeathed to him by the Enlightenment.

Whitman – added flesh and bone and sex to a spiritualized image of man.

Kierkegaard says that the good life for a person is one that fulfills the requirement that that person live as an individual. To make sense of one’s life as a whole only through personal conduct and relationships with others that manifest virtues.

4. Fear, Trembling, and Anxiety
“Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only one question: When will I be blown up?” –William Faulkner at his Nobel Prize
Causes of Fear, Trembling, and Anxiety
Lost optimism from the Age of Enlightenment that problems can be solved through reason, science. Nature can be “conquered.”
WW I
Great Depression
WW II and Holocaust
Nuclear threat
Environmental crises
Terrorism
Too many moral choices! We cannot resolve ethical questions by subjecting our moral consciousness to an impersonal deliberative perspective. Ethical questions are essentially first-person.

The Encounter with Nothingness
If man is alienated from nature, God, neighbors, and self, what is left?

People who seemingly have “everything” feel empty, uneasy, discontented.

Nothingness appears in existentialism, as the placeholder of the possibility. The awareness of anything in the world that is not my own existence (which by the way, cannot be held in consciousness without being nihilized) is an awareness of nothingness, that is, what I, this existence am not and in some cases I could become.

6. Freedom
Existentialists write about the loss of freedom or the threat to it, or the enlargement of the range of human freedoms.
Freedom means human autonomy. Sartre said that we are condemned to freedom. Because there is no God, we must accept individual responsibility for our own becoming. Nothing explicitly implies that in becoming a free individual one becomes a virtuous person.

The religious existentialists include God as a factor. They stress the man of faith rather than the man of will. Man’s essential nature is God-like – and we should not alienate ourselves from it. We should heal the chasm between the two, that is, to find salvation. Tillich says salvation is “the act in which the cleavage between the essential being and the existential situation is overcome.”

“Man bears within himself the image which is both the image of man and the image of God, and is the image of man as far as the image of God is actualized.” –Berdyaev.

Freedom is the acceptance of responsibility for choice and a commitment to one’s choice.

Authors are not necessarily conscious existentialist theorizers or even know the writings of such theorizers. Some of the most striking expressions of existentialism in literature and the arts come to us by indirection, often through symbols or through innovations in conventional form.



Directions: After creating a Microsoft Word document, answer the questions by using the keywords and links to help you research existentialism, philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre, Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, author Albert Camus and his book The Stranger. 

Keywords:  existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Soren Kierkegaard, Albert Camus, Friedrich Nietzsche, Six Common Themes of Existentialism, existential

1. While it is difficult to provide an exact definition of existentialism, what is its basic philosophy regarding life?

2. What are six common themes found in HYPERLINK "http://www.viterbo.edu/personalpages/faculty/GSmith/Existentialism.htm" existentialism?

3. Who was Soren Kierkegaard and what was his philosophy regarding existentialism?

4. Who was Jean Paul Sartre and what was his philosophy regarding existentialism?

5. Who was Friedrich Nietzsche and what was his philosophy regarding existentialism?

6. Which existentialist philosopher believed that existentialism and God could co-exist?

How did Kierkigaard's existentialist theory differ from Sartre's existentialist theory?

8.  Who is Albert Camus, when and where was he born, and when did he write The Stranger?

Provide a plot summary for the novel The Stranger. 

10. Where is Algeria, and what European power controlled it from the early 1900’s to the 1960’s. HYPERLINK "http://www.indo.com/distance/" How far is it from Los Angeles, California to Algiers, Algeria.  Finally, go to HYPERLINK "http://googleearth.com" Google Earth and view the city of Algiers in Algeria.

11. In France and Algeria in the 1950’s, what was the method of   execution for people who received the death penalty?

12. In the 1980’s, what band recorded a song that was inspired by the novel The Stranger, and what was the name of the song?

13. Once you’ve found the answer to the above question, copy and past the lyrics to that song.

14. What are the names of three motion pictures that have existential themes or plots?

research

Schedule:
Day 1 (Thursday) Work in current group and prepare your speech, handouts and determine your visual aid.
Day 2. (Friday) Revise your speech, handouts, visual aids and practice your presentations.
Day 3 (Monday) Spend time in your presentation group sharing information and rehearsing for presentation. (15 minutes)
Day 4 (Presentation Day)

rate statements

1 2 3 4 5 6
1 There are no atheists in foxholes.
2 You can't really value life until you have faced death.
3 you should never have to justify your behavior.
4 Sleep is a good way to escape from situations you'd rather not face.
5 Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important T.S. Elliot
6 Punishment...strengthens the power of resistance (nietzsche)
7 Even when something isn't your fault, you always feel a little guilty.
8 A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. (Gloria Steinem)
9 You shouldn't get involved in other people's problems.
10 People never really change their lives.
11 People's lives change.
12 There can never be a good reason for killing another person.
13 At one time or another, all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead.
14 The crime of one person paves the way for the crimes of others.
15 Reason is useless there is nothing beyond reason. (Camus)

autobiography

Use this as a checklist for your autobiography. Your autobiography may contain the following information; plus, other information that you may think of.
WRITE ABOUT YOUR PAST
Write about things that have happened to you.
Write about when and where you were born.
Write about how you got your name.
WRITE ABOUT YOUR PRESENT
Describe and explain familiar objects, events, and experiences.
Write about your present as if it happened already. Use past tense
Write about your family and relatives
Write about your likes and dislikes.
Write about an important lesson you learned.
Write about a family tradition.
Write about a treasured keepsake.
WRITE ABOUT YOUR FUTURE
Write about things you hope to happen in life.
Write about your future as if it happened. Use past tense…
Write about your future career.
Write about family life in the future. (You may choose not to have a family)
Write about a tradition you stared.
Write about your greatest accomplishment.
Write about how you made a difference