- Macbeth is a consideration of male power.
- A work of destructive despair
- How power corrupts
- Marxism links with power and so Macbeth links with power, therefore Marxism
- Is Macbeth a morality play or a psychological drama?
- Is Macbeth the eponymous hero - linking with Marxism?
- Iambic tetrameter
- Macbeth has a tragic flaw - believing one thing he has been told by the witches.
- Brave Macbeth - disdaining fortune
- The play opens with the captain talking about how Macbeth slaughtered someone.
- Macbeth character is power hungry
- Is Macbeth just effected by stress from the war - post traumatic stress.
Sunday, 29 September 2013
Macbeth Act One Reading Journal
Reading notes from act one of Macbeth:
Thursday, 26 September 2013
200 word Mini-Essay
How far do you agree that the two novels are mainly about prejudice?
To Kill a Mockingbird tells the story of how Scout Finch, her brother Jem and friend Dill learn about prejudice, honor, human nature and racism in the small southern town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s.To kill a mockingbird is terrifyingly true, in the way that prejudice lingers a chilling theme through the episodic novel told by a six year old motherless girl; Scout Finch. The episodic events are all pulled together when a climatic event arouses Scout’s father, lawyer Atticus Finch, and agrees to defend Tom Robinson, a black man, from the charge that he raped a white woman, a decision that divides Maycomb. This is when the bulk of prejudice hits the novel. We see just how bad times where in the south of the 1930’s and how in reflection to racial theme and it shows the novel is told through black and white and how one man can shock the town by standing up for someone with such allegations against him. However, I do not agree that prejudice is the main theme because although Harper Lee allows racism, gender issues, poverty, violence, and death in the novel; To Kill a Mockingbird has an emotional even romantic feel that doesn’t allow for true darkness and sorrow to enter it.
To Kill a Mockingbird tells the story of how Scout Finch, her brother Jem and friend Dill learn about prejudice, honor, human nature and racism in the small southern town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s.To kill a mockingbird is terrifyingly true, in the way that prejudice lingers a chilling theme through the episodic novel told by a six year old motherless girl; Scout Finch. The episodic events are all pulled together when a climatic event arouses Scout’s father, lawyer Atticus Finch, and agrees to defend Tom Robinson, a black man, from the charge that he raped a white woman, a decision that divides Maycomb. This is when the bulk of prejudice hits the novel. We see just how bad times where in the south of the 1930’s and how in reflection to racial theme and it shows the novel is told through black and white and how one man can shock the town by standing up for someone with such allegations against him. However, I do not agree that prejudice is the main theme because although Harper Lee allows racism, gender issues, poverty, violence, and death in the novel; To Kill a Mockingbird has an emotional even romantic feel that doesn’t allow for true darkness and sorrow to enter it.
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