MacBeth Act V

• After so many deaths, people are starting to become a little suspicious of MacBeth.
• Malcolm and Macduff decide to go visit the English king to plot how to end MacBeth's reign as King.
• Lady MacBeth is practically dying of guilt because of all the people her husband has killed.
• Macduff and Malcolm show up with their army and order troops to cut the branches from the trees in Birnam Wood for camouflage. 
•  Macduff corners Macbeth; calls him a "hell-hound"; tells him that he, Macduff, was "untimely ripped" from his mother's womb, i.e. delivered via C-section rather than being "born; and then cuts off his head.

MacBeth Act III & IV

• Hecade, the boss witch, is angered by the other three witches who are doing things without her permission.
• The witches tell MacBeth that he must kill Banquo if he wants to remain King.
• MacBeth kills Banquo but his son survives and flees Scotland.
• The witches heed MacBeth by giving him 3 warnings. 1. Watch out for Macduff. 2. No man born of woman is going to hurt him. 3. Don't worry until Birnam Woods moves to Dunsinane
• Ross then announces he has some bad news. Macduff offers to guess at it, but before he does Ross blurts out that, actually Macduff's family has been gruesomely murdered.
• Macduff blames himself for leaving, but Malcolm recommends that Macduff take his own advice and get his feelings out by murdering rather than weeping.
• Macduff vows to slay Macbeth, committing to action instead of thought.

MacBeth Act 2
•Macduff finds the king's dead body so MacBeth kills the guards and accuses them of murdering the king.
•As soon as King Duncan's kids find out that their father is dead they leave Scotland.
•Ross talks with an old man who informs him how the nights events were weird, having the King murdered and how nature is acting out of place.

MacBeth Act 1
•Lady MacBeth goes on a rant about her husband and that he needs to act like a man and kill King Duncan already so MacBeth can take the throne as King of Scotland.
•MacBeth ends up killing King Duncan because of the prophecy that the witches foretold of him becoming king.

March Literary Analysis: Moby Dick

I found these youtube videos that analyze the novel better than I ever could. After I watched them I felt that everyone who looks at my blog should watch these videos because they provide valuable incite on a timeless novel.

Brave New World Essay(Draft)

John, the Savage, is the character in the novel, Brave New World, which is alienated from society because of his values and beliefs. John believes in freedom and choice while, the society he lives in rejects values like these because the society has different moral values and assumptions for its citizens.

            The society in Brave New World has moral values that differ greatly from John which leads to his alienation. The moral values that society find imperative and essential to society are promiscuity, respect of the hierarchy, hatred of sexual reproduction, and happiness through soma. John is alienated from society because he believes that the society that now exists is not the society that his predecessors believed was correct and righteous. John also believes that people need to experience sadness and mourning to truly be happy and that soma doesn’t result in true happiness because it is a drug which causes the citizens of society to stay in subjugation. When, John is encountered by Lenina and she tells him that they should engage in sexual intercourse; he realizes that she is a whore which angers him because the love promised to him by Shakespeare was a lie, which frustrates him.

            The society’s assumptions in Brave New World are nowhere similar to John’s which leads to his alienation. The society’s assumptions of its citizens are it to follow the law, avoid reproduction, no relationships other than sexual ones, and to never question the class you belong to. John doesn’t agree with these assumptions which explain his constant criticism of the society’s culture. The Director is disgusted when he realizes he is John’s father which angers John because the Director leaves after he discovers this, leaving his mother in depression. John and the society’s assumptions of its citizens are most different in their view of how people should be governed.

            John believes in freedom and choice while, the society he lives in rejects values like these because the society has different moral values and assumptions for its citizens. John is pushed into alienation because he believes that the society in the book is inaccurate in their moral values which conflict with real-world values. John is also pushed into alienation because society’s assumptions of its citizens do not contain the best interest of its citizens but it contains the easiest way to control and subjugate its citizens. John, the Savage, is alienated from the rest of society from the beginning which is why when John dies at the end of the novel, the reader is not surprised when he commits suicide after having intercourse with Lenina and breaking one of his own laws.

              

Brave New World (9&10)
Simile- "Joy flared up like fire within him." p.142
Repetition- "The zippers on Lenina's spare pair of viscose velveteen shorts were at first a puzzle, then solved, a delight. Zip, and then zip; zip, and then zip; he was enchanted." p.143
Imagery- "Very slowly, with the hesitating gesture of one who reaches forward to stroke a shy and possibly rather dangerous bird, he put out his hand. It hung there trembling, within an inch of those limp fingers, on the verge of contact." p.144
Setting- "From the Social Predestination room the escalators went rumbling down into the basement, and there, in the crimson darkness, stewing warm on their cushion of peritoneum and gorged with blood-surrogate and hormones, the foetuses grew and grew or poisoned, languished into a stunted Epsilonhood." p.146