Caitrin+MacBeth

Soliloquy
 * Motif || Associated Reference || Symbolises ||
 * Dagger || 'The Handle toward my hand'

'A dagger of my mind'

'On thy blade and dungeon gouts of blood' || Macbeth is being pointed towards his fate

Macbeth's thoughts are dangerous The murder that will take place || 'and such an instrument I was to use' || Questioning his sight and weather what he is seeing is true. ||
 * Hands || 'Come let me clutch thee' || Gripping the dagger with his hands which will become the reason for destruction ||
 * Eyes || 'Is this a dagger that I see before me,'
 * Blood Nature || " And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,"

"It is the bloody business which inform" || He is "seeing" blood on the blade

now he is thinking that it is the bloody murder he is about to commit that makes him see these odd spots of blood. ||
 * Dreams || " Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse"  || Many people are asleep and the witches are abusing peoples dreams ||
 * Sleep || " Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse"  || Many people are asleep all over the world and the witches are abusing peoples dreams. ||
 * Wolf || " Alarumed by his sentinel, the wolf,"  || A man is woken by the howls of his wolf ||

Soliloquy - changing words

Is this a puppy which I see before me,

The fur toward my hand? Come, let me pat thee.

I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible

To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but

A dog of the mind, a false creation,

Proceeding from the heat-oppressèd brain?

I see thee yet, in form as palpable

As this which now I draw.

Thou marshall’st me the way that I was going,

And such an animal I was to use.

Mine eyes are made the fools o' th' other senses,

Or else worth all the rest. I see thee still,

And on thy head and dudgeon gouts of blood,

Which was not so before. There’s no such thing.

It is the bloody business which informs

29/03/11 Queen Elizabeth I - questions:
 * 1) 4c05ff
 * 2) B032E2

When did she live? Queen Elizabeth I was born on the 7th of September 1533 and died on the 24th of March 1603 Who was her rival for the throne? Her rival for the throne was Queen Mary of Scots Describe the similarities and differences between them

The were both Queens in Europe. Both Queens had people believing that they were the rightful Queen of England, however Queen Mary of Scots was never Queen but Queen Elizabeth I was Queen. Queen Mary of Scots was married and had a child where as Queen was never married and never had children. Who was Macbeth? Macbeth was the King of Scots. He was known for his promotion of Christianity and his efficient government. Macbeth became King when he killed King Duncan I. Who was Malcolm? Malcolm was the oldest son of King Duncan who was killed by Macbeth, Malcolm III or Malcolm Canmore later killed Macbeth and took the throne. Who was Duncan? Duncan was the King of Scotland who was later killed my Macbeth who then took the throne. He was also the father to Malcolm III or Malcolm Canmore. Who was James VI of Scotland? James VI of Scotland was the King of Scotland from the age of 13 months old, he was the son of Mary Queen of Scots. What was his relationship to James I of England? James I of England and James VI of Scotland are the same person, James was King of Scotland and later became King of England. He was king of both places at the same time though each had separate legal systems, politics etc. He held both crowns but was based in England from 1603 until he died in 1625. He also ruled Ireland for 22 years. What is it meant by the divine right of kings?

28/03/11

150 Words on Shakespeare: William Shakespeare a name nearly everyone recognizes though no one knows much about him. We know that he supposedly wrote many plays and poems but we don't know if he actually did write them, Shakespeare was not a very well educated man, he didn't go to collage yet the way his poems and plays are written use such a large vocabulary and discuss matters like politics that someone who had not gone to collage would know. In 1582 William Shakespeare got married at the age of 18 to a 26 year old woman. They moved to London not long after that. 1590 was the year of Shakespeare's first play being written, Henry VI part 1. Nine years later the Globe Theatre opened which is where many of Shakespeare's plays were preformed. Shakespeare died in 1616 but his first volume of plays were collected and made into something called the first folio in 1623. Shakespeare's work is still alive today and many of the themes from his plays live on in new movies and TV programs even some new theatre plays.

Brain Pop: William Shakespeare 1. Shakespeare was born in England. 2. Sonnets are poems that contain 14 Lines. 3. Shakespeare married at the age of 18 and moved to London in about 1592. 4. In 1594 he began preforming his plays with Lord Baltimore's Men. 5. His comedies often deal with with social life and human flaws and contain slapstick humor and puns. 6. Shakespeare wrote History plays, which chronicle the lives of British Kings, but they were not always historically accurate. 7. Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet are tragedies. 8.Shakespeare's plays contain truths about human nature that are still relevant today.