Act 1 Scene 5
Setting: Lady Macbeth is sat down in her personal office at work, shes surrounded by mountains of paper work and is working on her computer.
Costume: In a casual black suit with a skirt, a white blouse with her hair done up in a tight bun.
Lady Macbeth is sat at her desk working on the computer when the phone rings, she casualy answers it. When she hears the voice at the other end she quickly gets up, shuts her office door, closes the blinds and sits back on her chair. She listens to the other voice patiently but as she listens you can see her facial expressions change from shock to confussion to excitment. There is then a knock on the door, she quickly jumps up and ends her phonecall she then starts speaking to her fellow collegue. When she realises he to knows of the important news she hurrys him in and makes him shut the door. After listening to him she gives him instructions to carry out and sends him on his way. Thinking about everything she has just been told she sits back in her chair, cross legged, looking rather happy and starts talking to herself, considering all the possiblities. When she realises how good her news is she opens the blinds with a big smug smile on her face. Then she sits down and carries on with her work as if nothing happened.
Thursday, 8 October 2009
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Reading Journal notes
Act 1 Scene 1
This scene introduces the three witches, just in their short speech you realise that they already know what is going to happen. they even mention Macbeth's name the only reason for the meeting is to insure that all three of them are clear on the arrangements. this shows that Macbeth from the very beginging is a Gothic play as witches themselves come into the gothic genre, the chants and curses they talk about add in the extra gothic elements.
Act 1 Scene 2
This scene gives us a look in to the background of Macbeth and the current affairs that are going on in Scotland. It tells us about how the old Thane of Cawdor betrayed the king by fighting against him and becoming one of the enemys. It also tells us how Macbeth faught in the war and shows us how well Macbeth is seen by others in power. This scene is very Gothic from the begining as it starts with a discription of a bloody, hurt solider and goes on to discribe the war in detail.
Act 1 Scene 3
Starts with the witches again and their stories of who they have been messing with, this is a gothic moment as it discusses their powers and the curses which they use. When Macbeth and Banquo come in the witches start to chant, they predict the future for the two men mainly Macbeth. The witches vanish when asked for more information this is a gothic element in itself. When a messanger Ross comes in to tell Macbeth that he is now Thane of Cawdor he starts to think back to the witches as they had predicted this, he begins to think forword and what the power could be like for him.
Act 1 Scene 4
This scene starts gothic with the King discussing the execution of the original Thane of Cawdor. Macbeth enters and the conversation moves on to congratulating him, this leads to him asking the King to his house for a banquet to celebrate. This puts him in more favour and you can see Macbeth slowly thinking more and more about himself.
Act 1 Scene 5
This scene introduces Lady Macbeth, from the start you can tell that she is power hungry. when reading her husbands letter you can see her thinking ahead and making a plan to insure that what the witches predicted comes true one way or another. Lady Macbeth herslef seems to be an ideal gothic character as she is talking to the gods asking them to give her strength to carry out the tasks- these tasks being to kill the king- which she sees necessary. She is also the one trying to convince Macbeth in to her way of thinking. She seems to be the most gothic character at the moment.
Act 1 Sceen 6
This scene is the King arriving at Macbeths house and complimenting how nice the house and they are. However this scene also shows how clever Lady Macbeth is as she greats the king and plays the innocent hostess, all the while shes secreatly scheaming his death.
Act 1 Sceen 7
This scene is very gothic as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth discuss their plans of killing the King. At first Macbeth is against it but once Lady Macbeth convinces him he starts to get a little power hungry, like his wife, imagining what it would be like to have everyone answering to him. They then start plotting how they will carry out the murder and get away with it. They describe it very well creating a strong imagine in your head.
This scene introduces the three witches, just in their short speech you realise that they already know what is going to happen. they even mention Macbeth's name the only reason for the meeting is to insure that all three of them are clear on the arrangements. this shows that Macbeth from the very beginging is a Gothic play as witches themselves come into the gothic genre, the chants and curses they talk about add in the extra gothic elements.
Act 1 Scene 2
This scene gives us a look in to the background of Macbeth and the current affairs that are going on in Scotland. It tells us about how the old Thane of Cawdor betrayed the king by fighting against him and becoming one of the enemys. It also tells us how Macbeth faught in the war and shows us how well Macbeth is seen by others in power. This scene is very Gothic from the begining as it starts with a discription of a bloody, hurt solider and goes on to discribe the war in detail.
Act 1 Scene 3
Starts with the witches again and their stories of who they have been messing with, this is a gothic moment as it discusses their powers and the curses which they use. When Macbeth and Banquo come in the witches start to chant, they predict the future for the two men mainly Macbeth. The witches vanish when asked for more information this is a gothic element in itself. When a messanger Ross comes in to tell Macbeth that he is now Thane of Cawdor he starts to think back to the witches as they had predicted this, he begins to think forword and what the power could be like for him.
Act 1 Scene 4
This scene starts gothic with the King discussing the execution of the original Thane of Cawdor. Macbeth enters and the conversation moves on to congratulating him, this leads to him asking the King to his house for a banquet to celebrate. This puts him in more favour and you can see Macbeth slowly thinking more and more about himself.
Act 1 Scene 5
This scene introduces Lady Macbeth, from the start you can tell that she is power hungry. when reading her husbands letter you can see her thinking ahead and making a plan to insure that what the witches predicted comes true one way or another. Lady Macbeth herslef seems to be an ideal gothic character as she is talking to the gods asking them to give her strength to carry out the tasks- these tasks being to kill the king- which she sees necessary. She is also the one trying to convince Macbeth in to her way of thinking. She seems to be the most gothic character at the moment.
Act 1 Sceen 6
This scene is the King arriving at Macbeths house and complimenting how nice the house and they are. However this scene also shows how clever Lady Macbeth is as she greats the king and plays the innocent hostess, all the while shes secreatly scheaming his death.
Act 1 Sceen 7
This scene is very gothic as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth discuss their plans of killing the King. At first Macbeth is against it but once Lady Macbeth convinces him he starts to get a little power hungry, like his wife, imagining what it would be like to have everyone answering to him. They then start plotting how they will carry out the murder and get away with it. They describe it very well creating a strong imagine in your head.
Monday, 5 October 2009
HW- Update on my essay
My essay is about the books Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and New Moon by Stephanie Meyer, in the essay i will discuss the topic Forbidden love. I will talk about the factors that make love forbidden and how some we can control while others our out of our hands.
As the books were written so far apart i am also going to discuss forbidden love over the years, i am going to see if i can find anything that still gets in the way or if it is totally different factors that can cause problems.
As the books were written so far apart i am also going to discuss forbidden love over the years, i am going to see if i can find anything that still gets in the way or if it is totally different factors that can cause problems.
Thursday, 1 October 2009
What is Literature??
I believe that literature varies from person to person, i personally believe that any story/novel can be seen as literature but some are just better then others. I think when it comes to 'classics' they also depend on a persons point of view. For example, William Shakespeare is seen as a 'classic' writer and all his plays are seen as 'classic' pieces of work however, i believe that maybe it is now time to let other people be well known and studied. Newer writers always seem to be compared to the 'classic' writers and due to this their books don't always get considered as good literature but maybe its time to spread the title and let other writers and genres be considered.
Plus william shakespeare wrote in plays and i don't personaly see that as good literature as it isn't a book its more like a script which doesn't give you much insight and discription like a good book should.
Plus william shakespeare wrote in plays and i don't personaly see that as good literature as it isn't a book its more like a script which doesn't give you much insight and discription like a good book should.
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