Fate

In Macbeth, whether you should interfere with fate is a huge theme in the book. When Macbeth gets his first prophecy from the witches about being king, he questions whether he should interfere with fate and kill Duncan or just let it happen. Lady Macbeth urges Macbeth to just go ahead and interfere with fate and take matters into his own hands. However, we see this is a huge mistake. One murder turns into another, and another, and another. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth can not stop murdering people once they kill Duncan. They kill one person and then find another that they have to kill. The murder drives both of them crazy and eventually kills them.

This story shows how you should just let your fate happen and not try to take matters into you own hands. If Macbeth would have just let his fate happen, he would have never killed all of those people and he would not have been killed. Macbeth thought that the deal would be done after they killed Duncan, but it ended up that he had to continue to kill more and more people. It was an endless trail.


Reading and Working Times
5-6 Portfolio: 1 hour
5-8 Portfolio: 1 hour

Reading and Working Times 5/5

4/30 Portfolio Project - Transformation  30 mins
5/1 Portfolio Project - Transformation Analysis 20 mins
5/2 Portfolio Project - Transformation Analysis 20 mins
5/4 Portfolio Project - Writing 60 mins

Macbeth Quote

Macbeth kills Duncan, but realizes what he has gotten into after and has to kill more people. He says, "Things bad begun make strong themselves ill" (95). This means that when you do bad things, doing other bad things make them worse. Macbeth realizes this when he kills Duncan, but then he realizes that he has to Banquo also. Before all of the killing started he though all he had to do was kill Duncan to be king, but then he has to kill Banquo. After he kills Banquo, he has to try and kill Banquo's children. He realizes that the cycle of killing will never end if he keeps on going.

Along with the thought of the endless cycle of murder, Macbeth also says, "I am in blood. Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more," (109). This means that Macbeth has already killed so many people, but if he stops killing people he will not succeed, but in order to succeed he would have to kill many more people. He realizes that there is no going back, and he does not know what to do. From both of these quotes, Macbeth is realizing that trying to fix a bad thing with another bad thing only makes the situation worse.

Reading and Writing Times 4/29

4/22 Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein 1 hour

4/23 Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein 45 mins

4/25 Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein 2 hours

Free Post

It is getting near the end of the school year, and I have many projects. I have a project in every class due before school ends, and I get very stressed out about these. I am very bad about procrastinating and not starting things until a few days before they are due, but this time I am determined to stay on top of my work. Usually, I know that I have something big due soon and I stress out about, but I think that by not thinking about it will calm me down. This ends up making me even more stressed out in the end, and the night before it is due I am frantically running around trying to finish. Every time I do this, I usually do fine, but it puts so much stress on me the night before.

This time, I am trying really hard to get all of my stuff done before it is due. I am done with my history project, and I have already begun all of my other projects. My goal is to pick a project each night and work on it for at 30 minutes. If I do this, hopefully I will be able to spread out my work and not be so stressed out at the end.

Reading and Working Times 4/7-4/13

4/7 NC Appetizer 20 mins
      NC Entree 45 mins

4/8 NC Dessert 60 mins

4/9  NC side 35 mins
       NC Entree 30 mins

Macbeth Statements

Ambition is a positive, desirable trait in a person.
I agree with this statement. I think that ambition is a good trait to have because if you don't have ambition, you won't work hard for anything. You basically won't care. However, the reason why I don't strongly agree with this is because I feel like if someone has too much ambition, it can be a very bad thing. In Macbeth, Macbeth has lots of ambition to be the thane of Cawdor, but he ends up killing many people to get this. Ambition is a necessary trait to have to get anywhere in life, but if you have too much or you have ambition for something bad then this is not a positive trait to have.

Sometimes you have to do things other people consider wrong to get ahead.
Depending on what situation this is in, my answer would vary. I think that sometimes you have to do what you have to do. Some people may think what you are doing is wrong, but you and others may not. It is their opinion. However, in Macbeth's case, I disagree with this statement. He decides to kill many people to be the thane of Cawdor, and I don't think this is right. This statement could apply to many different situations.