PD 1 ENGLISH 10 HONORS
In the comments section, please discuss one of the below questions. Then, respond to two of your peer's responses.
Your answers should be quality responses of at least 5 thoughtful sentences. Please make sure to respond to peer responses by midnight Monday (4/3). Peer responses must add to the discussion. Responses such as "I agree" or "that is stupendous" will not receive credit.
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Colton
4/3/2017 05:22:09 am
For the second question, I think it is a little bit of Macbeth going crazy and a little of the supernatural plaguing him. He is killing all of these people to make sure he stays king, you have to be somewhat crazy to do that. After he kills these people, because he is going crazy, the ways that he sees his guilt are just making him more insane. When it comes to the supernatural, they are making him feel bad for what he has done, and will probably keep doing it until he stops and gives up his role as king. They are just tying both of them together, because one is being caused by the other.
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Chase Delauter
4/3/2017 05:28:06 am
For the second question I think it is Macbeth going crazy and at the same time the supernatural. He is making the choices to kill all these people not the supernatural, but the supernatural seems to kind of help influence him into doing it, or making the next choice. For Lady Macbeth, she is just crazy because it seems like she just wants to see crime, and will do anything to get what she wants.
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Chase Delauter
4/3/2017 05:33:43 am
I agree with colton
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miranda
4/3/2017 05:33:49 am
I think he is completely crazy, but that Lady Macbeth is also the push and drive behind him. In the first part of the plan to become king, you notice Macbeth is kinda weak. Then Lady Macbeth is who pushes him to be someone he isn't.
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Lexi
4/3/2017 05:35:33 am
I agree. It can be both supernatural and Macbeth himself. The ghosts may haunt him, but his conscience haunts him more and more each day.
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Sophia
4/3/2017 05:26:35 am
q2: I think that Macbeth is going crazy, rather than the supernatural trying to guilt him. When he hallucinates, only he can see it. If Shakespeare wanted to focus on being supernatural, he most likely would have had at least one other person able to see what he's seeing. As for Lady Macbeth, she seems to be /mostly/ sane. From the beginning she wasn't exactly "sane" but as time goes on, she manages to keep her cool.
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miranda
4/3/2017 05:37:22 am
I agree with what she is saying as I believe that it wasn't anything to do with the supernaturals. I believe it was all greed as his drive.
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Lexi
4/3/2017 05:38:03 am
I can see where you're coming from. Macbeth does kinda inflict guilt onto himself through most of the play.
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Hayley Robinson
4/3/2017 01:59:13 pm
I agree that it seems as if Macbeth is going crazy because when he hallucinates, only he can see it. The hallucinations are making him come to his senses and realize that what he done was wrong and unnecessary.
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miranda
4/3/2017 05:28:41 am
#1 I think that Macbeth's actions have nothing to do with fate because he would have never done this (killing his friends and beloved king) if he didn't have greed and heard something stupid from three witches that he didn't even know. However, he heard the possibility of being something higher, something bigger and he did anything he could to achieve it.
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Chase Delauter
4/3/2017 05:32:41 am
I agree and it is the same way with Lady Macbeth she didn't think of killing the king until she knew Macbeth had the chance to become king
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Sarah H.
4/3/2017 05:39:08 am
I agree, just when he thinks he's getting ahead, he's at a complete loss due to his stupidity.
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Lexi
4/3/2017 05:33:36 am
The role of fate is very evident so far in the play. Fate is what originally drove Macbeth to do the things he did, and now its working exactly as planned. Fate wanted Macbeth to find out and go power crazy to carry out the plot. The concept of fate knows what it's doing. However, he is not fully to blame for the murders. The people around him are also innocent. It is fate itself at fault for driving Macbeth crazy. The movie versions also display this route of fate. In saying that, it's difficult to display fate on screen. For example, the movie follows the play pretty well, but no matter how well it follows the script, it gives little room to display fate since it is an abstract form of reality.
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Sarah H.
4/3/2017 05:37:12 am
I agree, to be fair, it's doing well to demonstrate that all that was predicted is actually happening, which I think would be as close as showing fate as the movie could get.
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Sophia
4/3/2017 05:37:50 am
I totally agree. Fate seems to be to the reason this story even happened. Without the concept of fate, everyone would still be alive.
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Sarah Hartle
4/3/2017 05:34:00 am
First off, I don't think Macbeth fully did everything by himself at first, which affects the idea of fate, at least for me. I believe that the witches manipulated him into thinking he had control (and they still are, if Hecate's plans pan out). His wife just further drove him to murder, but now he's graduated to hiring murderers to do the dirty work for him, which due to their incompetence (or maybe the extra murderer being a witch, which adds to the idea that they're manipulating him) Fleance escapes to potentially become king, as of the witches prophecy. The movie addresses it as it definitely being fate, as the witches are in almost every scene where it's critical that Macbeth take an action ,like Banquo's murder, during the dinner party, where Fleance had just escaped and Banquo's ghost appears.
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Natalie
4/3/2017 05:37:33 am
For question number 2 i'm pretty sure Macbeth is going a tad bit insane. I think he's going crazy because he's overthinking all he's done and it's driving him nuts. I do think guilt plays a big part in this esspecially since he said himself, he killed Duncan and he didn't deserve it and now he killed his bestfriend... I don't think Lady Macbeth is going crazy out of guilt though i think shes just beyond annoyed and angry at Macbeth for his actions and how he just cannot contain his fear for whatever hes seeing in his head. I'm also pretty sure shes mad at him for doing things without talking to her first so, #relationshipprobs
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Hayley Robinson
4/3/2017 01:57:12 pm
I agree with Natalie about Macbeth overthinking what he has done. He knows that what he did was wrong and the people did not deserve to lose their lives, so the guilt is eating him away.
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Sarah Brown
4/3/2017 06:33:15 pm
I think that Natalie makes a good point here that Macbeth is going crazy because he keeps thinking about what he has done and knows that it is wrong, and probably even regrets his decisions about murder. I think that by the end of the story he will either forget about the good person he used to be, or he will be totally eaten away by his guilt.
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Tiffany F.
4/3/2017 05:38:46 am
Q2: I believe that Macbeth has went insane in his own ways. My reason being is when he first saw the dagger he seemed to show a bit of craziness and after he killed the king it came out a bit more. Then after the murders killed Banquo and his ghost came (there's the supernatural coming on) he went completely crazy. As for Lady Macbeth in the play you cannot tell but in the movie you can see it's affecting her.
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Logan Minett
4/3/2017 06:15:24 pm
It is interesting to note how Lady Macbeth is portrayed in the film, that how she reacts to Macbeth's sanity. She is even shown to have tears. Either the tears are from embarrassment or from her realization of what she's done to him.
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Hayley Robinson
4/3/2017 01:55:36 pm
Question 2-
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Logan Minett
4/3/2017 06:11:45 pm
Question 2
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Sarah Brown
4/3/2017 06:35:50 pm
I feel like the aspect of power does play a role in the way Macbeth feels, and I didn't think about that before. However, I also believe that guilt is playing a major role in his attitude and that he may, in fact, be losing his mind.
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Karl
4/3/2017 07:49:05 pm
Question 2:
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