Upcoming Macbeth Essay: The Thesis
Because we were rushed at the end of our shortened class today, I'm going to reiterate the directions here:
Please select one of the following five questions to brainstorm and develop into a thesis statement (you may stick with the same question you used for your Act 1 summary response, or you may switch topics):
1. Do women have to be masculine in order to be powerful?
2. What impact do dreams or dream-like states have on our waking lives?
3. To what extent is ambition healthy? When does it become destructive?
4. What drives people over the edge? What causes them to lose control of themselves?
5. Do we control our own destinies, or do our destinies control us? Is there such a thing as fate?
The big difference between this essay and your earlier summary responses is that you are eventually going to turn the question into a five paragraph essay in which you compare Macbeth to another person or text of your choice. Here are the official directions I put up on the PowerPoint today:
Over the next week, you will be writing a 5-paragraph essay in which you respond to one the five questions that you responded to in your Act 1 summary response.
The two big differences are as follows:
1. You must address different acts of the play (not just Act 1).
2. You must compare a situation, conflict, or character from Macbeth to another situation, conflict, or person from the media, from another play or novel, or from history.
As you brainstorm and develop your thesis, start considering whom or what you'd like to compare to Macbeth. Hitler? Romeo? Oprah? Get creative. When you have developed a thesis, please post it on this blog.
As always, please post by Thursday 10 pm.
Please select one of the following five questions to brainstorm and develop into a thesis statement (you may stick with the same question you used for your Act 1 summary response, or you may switch topics):
1. Do women have to be masculine in order to be powerful?
2. What impact do dreams or dream-like states have on our waking lives?
3. To what extent is ambition healthy? When does it become destructive?
4. What drives people over the edge? What causes them to lose control of themselves?
5. Do we control our own destinies, or do our destinies control us? Is there such a thing as fate?
The big difference between this essay and your earlier summary responses is that you are eventually going to turn the question into a five paragraph essay in which you compare Macbeth to another person or text of your choice. Here are the official directions I put up on the PowerPoint today:
Over the next week, you will be writing a 5-paragraph essay in which you respond to one the five questions that you responded to in your Act 1 summary response.
The two big differences are as follows:
1. You must address different acts of the play (not just Act 1).
2. You must compare a situation, conflict, or character from Macbeth to another situation, conflict, or person from the media, from another play or novel, or from history.
As you brainstorm and develop your thesis, start considering whom or what you'd like to compare to Macbeth. Hitler? Romeo? Oprah? Get creative. When you have developed a thesis, please post it on this blog.
As always, please post by Thursday 10 pm.
posted by Kristin L at 12:07 PM
18 Comments:
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In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, greed is an underlying conflict that causes the main character Macbeth to over the edge and turn into someone similar to Adolf Hitler.
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In Macbeth by William Shakespeare people are driven over the edge continually by the prospect of obtaining power.
Ambition is the life-force behind action. We can use ambition to our advantage or it can overtake us and control our every thought. A good contrast of the two different types of ambition is in Macbeth and Garth Nix's Old Kingdom Trilogy.
People in Macbeth have went crazy or they have got killed for something really pathetic like the throne of Scotland like Macbeth and stupdness of killing two innoncent people.
Shakespeare’s Macbeth portrays Macbeth as someone who is easily manipulated and can be pushed over the edge with the simple belittlement of his manliness.
In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, ambition is what drives many characters, but that ambition causes a lot of turmoil.
Do we control our own destinies, or do our destinies control us? Is there such a thing as fate?
Destiny is a powerful mental possesion that I think thatcompletely controls our lives as we live them.
Throughout Macbeth, Lady Macbeth uses her masculinity to overpower Macbeth; however, this act seems unnecessary to just gain power. Women can use other alternatives than masculinity.
In Macbeth, Shakespeare uses Lady Macbeth, the witches, and Lady Macduff, to symbolize women's power and place in society.
In Macbeth by William Shakespeare, power and control is what makes Macbeth go over the edge and become someone like Castro or Hitler.
Macbeth incorporates highly ambitious characters that play positive and negative roles throughout the play; much like Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, ambition always seems to end up in death.
In the play of Macbeth by Shakespeare the women are portrayed as a manly figure. They are givin a manly figure so that it will make them have more power.
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Macbeth was not a born killer; his own actions situated him within constant turmoil throughout playwright William Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth; Macbeth commits many atrocities just as Andre Rwamakuba did in the Rwandan genocide, both fashioned their own vocation to kill, their only fate was a definite demise.
In Shakespears Macbeth, fear and paranoia are what drive Macbeth completly over the edge.
In the play Macbeth writen by William Shakespear, people are continually driven over the edge, like Macbeth attempting to obtain power by killing.
Pressure and guilt is what drives Macbeth over the edge. Macbeth turns evil because he feels guilty and pressured by Lady Macbeth.
In the tragedy Macbeth, William Shakespeare portrays the the cause and effect of being driven over the edge.
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