Sunday, March 6, 2011

Learning Log 3

Summary
'Macbeth' is about a story of this person Macbeth who is a good and brave person before he became bad. In Act 1, Scene1 he meet 3witches who can tell the future and told him he would become the king. In Act 1, Scene2 it involves 2 war that macbeth fought. First it was with merciless macdonwald who was supported by foot soliders and horsemen but all too weak for brave macbeth who won the battle. Then Norwegian king had saw his chance and began a fresh assault, led by the disloyal traitor Cawdor. However macbeth and the captain did not give in and fought twice as hard. In the end, they won the war once again.( unfortunately the captain was injuried) The Norwegian king then wanted a treaty, king Duncan will not even let them bury their soliders unless they retreat to Saint colme's inch and paid them $10000. Macbeth was then promoted to Cawdor's title like the witches had predicted causing macbeth starting to believe in them..
I think that the theme is actually war, being greedy.
Favorite person in 'Macbeth'
If i have to chose someone i like most in this story i think it would be the captain. Even though the captain is not the main character. One of the reason is because of his loyalty. Despite of his injuries he immediately reported to the king to tell him the latest news and also did not betray his king. The captain is also brave like macbeth as he is not frighten of new challenges like the sparrow eagles, or the hare the lion as the passage states.
What i learnt
From 'Macbeth' i learn that we should actually appreciate what we have because being greedy will always led to trouble. Even if we know what will happened in the future we should be patience and not do something bad just because you could not wait. For example, macbeth had kill King Duncan as he knew he would become the king in future. From this story, i have also learnt that we should sometimes be firm with what we think and not get influence easliy but we know its wrong like how macbeth was influence by lady macbeth as she wanted to be the queen and persuded macbeth to kill the king.
(: