MY MASTERPIECE

Incorporating writing with music to describe high school journey of every person!

Song: Black and White
Remixed with: I see the light (Tangled)
Written, sung, and created by: Jisu Yoon and Naiomi Desai

SONNETS

• Shakespearean sonnets are two quartets and then a couplet.
• Patrarchan sonnets are divided in an octet and a sestet.
• The sonnet is a satire to the Patrarchan sonnets - which are more romantic and idolizing.
• It changes tone at the last couplet from criticizing and insulting the woman Shakespeare loved to praising her and accepting to love her for the way she was.
• The "shift" is visible because of the time change but also, coincidentally, the rhyme scheme also changes - making it more obvious.

EXTREME CHARACTERS

I liked the journal topic for today so I decided to post about it instead of writing it in my journal because I know that if I write in that little book, no one is going to be able to see or read it. So here it is:

Extreme characters: what are they? Crazy? Over dramatic? Unrealistic? I would say they're personas that we can learn from in modern world. I consider them to have personality of somebody not afraid of their opinion and their goals. They're certain. They're sure. Lady Macbeth was crazy, true. She was evil, true. She was psychologically unstable, maybe. But she was someone that none of us can be nowadays: definite, confident, and even manipulative (which all of us need at some point in our lives but don't have it). I believe that extreme characters allow us to view the world in a more acquiring sense: making us believe that it depends on us and our efforts and desires to achieve anything as long as there's perseverance and future vision involved in it. En finale (yes, I'm aware that this probably does not exist now, but hey, I could start it!), extreme characters are what you wish to be - positively, of course (I'm not a psycho, I promise!) - but is not  realistic to ever be that way.

ACT 4 STUDY QUESTIONS

4.1

1.  There are 3 witches in this scene.

2.  The first apparition says to be wary of Macduff and careful of him.  The second tells Macbeth he should be a strong willed ruler- bold and brace.  In other words he should not accept defeat.  The third warns of attacking armies coming, and tells Macbeth he won't be defeated until the kingdom of Norway attacks.
     Macbeth doesn't feel safe after the apparitions.  He has worries about Macduff's intentions and the possibility of an oncoming attacking army.  Yes he should feel unsafe because he is in a very precarious position.
     After the fourth, the line of kings, Macbeth is terrified.  He saw the ghost of Banquo at the end, whom he killed.  This frightened him as well as drawing out his guilt.

3.  In line 158 Macbeth learns from Lennox that Macduff is running away to England.  In response Macbeth decides to send someone try to kill as many of Macduff's family members as he can.
4.2
1) Lady McDuff seems to feel betrayed and angry at McDuff because he left them (her and her son) to die. She was advising her son to dislike his father because he fled when he discovered that Macbeth is planning to kill him.
2) The purpose of the scene between Lady McDuff and her son is to have his son have false impression about his dad. Also, the scene assists in the growth of the theme : fair is foul and foul is fair. This is because Macbeth is willing to kill McDuff in order to achieve what is"rightfully" his and McDuff fled, afraid of Macbeth's actions towards him. It also shows how McDuff's son refused to believe that his father left them to die, showing devotion, faith, and trust.
3) The entire McDuff family ends up being killed by Macbeth.
4.3

1. Macduff's family has been killed. 

2. Malcolm doesn't want to go home because he's afraid of judgement since he ran away. Malcolm is suspicious of Macduff bc Macduff has his own personal agenda. He might be secretly working for Macbeth since he left his family. Malcolm tests Macduff's loyalty to him and he passes. When Macduff starts to leave Malcolm takes back the lies he's told and trusts Macduff now- they're now allies. 

3. Malcolm says he's a bad king but Macduff says Macbeth is a way worse king and that he needs to return to restore peace and justice. Avarice bothers Macduff more in a king, it sticks deeper with kings in the terms of greed and lust.

4 

5 coming soon...

6. Ross tells Macduff that his family is dead, it takes him a while to tell him. Macduff says they must save their grief for later and Malcom says to turn their revenge into a medicine for their grief. Macduff says "he has no children" and he is referring to Malcom because he says he needs to mourn and "feel like a man" when Malcom tells him to dispute it like a man. To be a "man" in this play means to have feelings and don't hide but don't let them cloud your judgement.
7. Malcom, Macduff and Ross are ready to attack Macbeth's castle, they just need to go there.

ACT II STUDY QUESTIONS

2.1
1.The opening gives a sense of forboding, things are not as they should be. The discussion serves to have Banquo acknowledge the weird sisters rather than claim they are a hallucination. 
2. Macbeth is extremely stressed about having to Duncan and he is attempting to talk himself into committing the deed. He talks about it as if he is in a haze, a dream and he continues by making it a reality and committing the deed.
2.2
Coming soon
2.3
1) The porter, in the third scene of act ii, is drunk and is pretending to be the Porter of the gate to hell. In the play, Macbeth has the trait of equivocation, where he manipulates his listener by circumlocution and the expectations of the other person without actually committing. For example, he does this when Lady Macbeth asks him to kill King Duncan.
2) The thematic function of Lennox describing the night as unruly was because that night was when King Duncan was killed by Macbeth. It was "unruly" not only for King Duncan but also for Macbeth because the guilt and fear of getting caught will always make him say and do things that might be suspicious, dark, and unruly. The scene is necessary to show Macbeth's transformation from the character before the murder vs. the character after the murder. This also connects back to what the witches had said earlier in the play: Fair is foul and foul is fair.
3) Macduff reports that the king has been murdered. Lady Macbeth appears to be horrified that this act could take place on his household. Macbeth is in encaged and kills the chamberlains. Malcolm and Donalbain decide to flee Malcolm and will go to England and Donalbain will go to Ireland. They're fleeing because they fear they will be murdered.
2.4
1. The function of the dialogue between Old Man and Ross is to discuss the strange happenings that have been occurring such as how an owl killed a falcon, the horses went wild and are one another, and several other things.  This wicked behavior symbolizes and foreshadows the promotion of Macbeth to the thrown. 

2. Macduff tells us from the castle that Macbeth has been made king by his fellow lords and that he will travel to Scone to receive the promotion and get crowned. He tells us that Malcolm and Donalbain are suspected of the murder of Duncan. They are suspected because they fled the scene.

MACBETH: CHARACTER MAP

A character map that I absolutely loved is this one:
http://www.anoisewithin.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2014/01/ANW_Macbeth_Character_Map.pdf
The content is straight and to the point without digression and also its structure is easy to get a read on.

This link might not be the best one in terms of credibility but it does have content that's easy to understand and analytic enough for the readers to get a grip on Macbeth.
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=Macbeth+character+map

This one is basic but helps in getting the characters "unmixed-up"
https://accf78fc-a-8e141b81-s-sites.googlegroups.com/a/puhsd.k12.ca.us/mrs-smith-english/Home/english-10/macbeth/macbethcharactermap.jpg?attachauth=ANoY7cpO09PQaEvNhbRbljiiIpksmOF0sDSJReT0OHNhMwO4tJPdTbHMztM7sk_nBf6rxY9U6CvaAHA9w6lzg6Axol6F2yrypVP100ZNFV7wq2yIB2us6A7rqCOQEirVCk1tYlLqqOLZAzQ3o7qQttJotT-lgg48YuzTmn7oU7chPRBLbhoNhZw1kvAXInJwZul-2DT_peLSTrAhFYec2uprqESJFzmRQF-JtlFRLQZtSudiTUb9MEXnUsOriCNHCWo4ZoWFtVBiwE7pqopYpF40jjEhKQFjMQ%3D%3D&attredirects=0

WHAT ABOUT MY MASTERPIECE?

As earlier mentioned, Jisu and I are writing a song as a "research" project to determine the audience's reaction based on different means of media the song is presented through. Since the AP tests are right on the curb, our attention and priority has slightly shifted. But what we both are discussing is a way to record (not necessarily on camera) the audience's reaction and either take Dr. Preston's help in publishing it or post it on our blogs and request the audience to review it and give feedback by commenting. We are also expecting help from Laura and Pete from London in organizing this project together. Finally, we are planning to contact Nevada - an extremely talented film student in Righetti - to help us put together a video that broadcasts emotions of our song!!