Lady Macbeth Wordle

Act I Scene v REFLECTION

1.  In my scene, Act 1 Scene v, Lady Macbeth reads a letter from Macbeth saying that he has been named Thane of Cawdor by the King. This is very surprising to Macbeth because he had visited the witches beforehand and the witches predicted that Macbeth would become the Thane of Cawdor. Lady Macbeth hears this great news and starts to ponder about the fame and power at her hands. That leads to my first essential question: What is ambition? Ambition is the desire for personal achievement. It is what drives us to fulfill what we want or need. For me, I have the ambition to do well in school. I would try my hardest, and do all the work assigned to the best level possible. In Macbeth, Lady Macbeth has the ambition to become famous and powerful, and that is why she "loves" Macbeth, not because she actually loves him dearly, but because she sees the potential to become famous and powerful.

    We fail!

    But screw your courage to the stick place,

And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep - 

Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey

soundly invite him - his two chamberlains

Will I with wine and wassel so convince, 

That memory, the warder of the brain,

Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason

A limbeck only: when in swinish sleep

Their drenched natures lie as in a death, 

What cannot you and I perform upon

The unguarded Duncan? what not put upon

His spongy officers who shall bear the guilt 

Of our great quell? (I,vii,66-79)

In this quote, Lady Macbeth has the perfect plan - make the two guards drunk and Macbeth murders King Duncan. Determination is a quality needed for ambition. Even to this extent - Killing somebody - Lady Macbeth still has the motivation to do anything necessary to get what she desires most. Sadly, this ambition involves crime, and crime is unjust. Now both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth have this huge dilemma: Get power and fame for the expense of committing a crime, or don't do anything and get nothing. Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth of all the prizes that could be theirs if he kills King Duncan - and Macbeth is convinced. Therefore, Lady Macbeth has more power over her husband, which leads to my next essential question: How does power corrupt? As we all know, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth team up together to kill King Duncan. This messes up the entire hierarchy and kingdom as without a King, there is no order. Macbeth was later named King, however, because that he has power over everybody, he can do whatever he wants to. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth still have the ambition for more power and fame, and so Macbeth orders people to kill Banquo, because Macbeth is afraid that Banquo will snatch his power away from him (As prophesized by the witches).

     

    Thou shalt get kings, though thou be non: So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo! (I,iii,70-71)

Macbeth is still obsessed with the witches' prophecies to Banquo, and so he dispatches people to kill him. Another murder! Power is corrupting out of control! Lady Macbeth corrupts Macbeth with power by convincing him to kill the King, and with that newly acquired power, Macbeth corrupts even more by ordering people to murder Banquo, which leads to more power, which then he will corrupt by killing MacDuff's family. This is how power corrupts.

2. I learned that working in groups is not as easy and smooth as expected. At the beginning, Brenden and I could not choose what scene to do because there were too many to choose from and that we were too slow to choose; other people have taken it before us. However, there were more than enough scenes available to the entire class, and so we were able to decide on one. Another area is trying to find availability. Chyna was never available to do it on the weekends, so we decided to finish it on a Thursday, however, Brenden did not come, and so we did not finish. That is another thing I learned. One can never trust another one's words.

3. Overall, something important that I have learned is that if something is not 100% done, never put it on one person's hand to finish it and expect it to be 100% finished. When I left Brenden's house on Sunday, it was pretty much completed, except that he needed to add voices and animations to the video. To one's surprise, the program kept on crashing on him an he resorted to making a power-point with no animation and no voices, so we had to read it out on the spot, which Ms. Caldwell told us exactly not to to.

4. Something that I noticed that I need to work on for next time is speaking in front of the entire class. I feel that I did not speak entirely of what I have planned to speak in front of the class, and many times I just could not find the correct word to perfectly describe the situation when I was explaining the plot summary and essential questions, and therefore stumble and leave a huge gap in the oral presentation. I never bring a piece of paper up to reference to because I think that it would be more professional to go up there and present by pure knowledge. Next time I will rehearse a little more and try to be more relaxed when standing up there in front of the class.

5. Overall, something that I am proud of is that with our difficulties of our group (we could never get together and work as one), we still managed to pull this out and finish this project with some quality.

6. Brenden - 45%
    Don - 40%
    Chyna - 15%