My Version:
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
to the last syllable of recorded time,
and all our yesterdays have lighted.
Fools the way to dusty death out, out!
Brief candle life's but a walking shadow,
a poor player that struts and frets;
his hour upon the stage,
and then is heard no more.
It is a tale told by an idiot,
full of sound and fury signifying nothing.
Real Version(BBC_Booknotes):
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Amy's English Play Blog
Monday, 9 December 2013
Thursday, 5 December 2013
Macbeth Poem: Act 2 Scene 1
Is this a dagger I see before me,
A fatal vision, a false creation.
From the heart oppressed brain,
As this which now I draw.
An instrument, a dagger, a blade,
Come let me clutch thee.
And on thy blade gouts of blood,
Whiles I threat... he lives.
A fatal vision, a false creation.
From the heart oppressed brain,
As this which now I draw.
An instrument, a dagger, a blade,
Come let me clutch thee.
And on thy blade gouts of blood,
Whiles I threat... he lives.
Monday, 2 December 2013
My Devine Potion Spell & Class Hellish Spell
My Groups
In goes the hot chocolate along with the cream,
With best wishes with a good dream.
By good means the teddy bear drops,
Along with him the rabbits ears flop.
In goes the hot chocolate along with the cream,
With best wishes with a good dream.
By good means the teddy bear drops,
Along with him the rabbits ears flop.
Class Potion Spell
Double double toil and trouble;
MYPPersons boil and bubble.b
Eye of dog, and blood of rat,
Egg of frog, and wing of bat;
Murderer’s blood, voice of boy band,
Skin of Nazi and Osama's hand.
In the cauldron goes the screams,
Of many little toddlers’ dreams;
Toenail, eyelid of the mouse,
Will guide us to the devil's house;
Ear of monkey, tail of cat,
Nose of pig and toe of rat.
Drink of drinker, smoke of smoker,
Lots of people playing poker.
Nail of lawyer, banker’s eye,
Berlusconi's hooker and lie,
Chimney soot, snow underfoot,
Nyan cat and dead wombat.
Big black rat and Stalin’s mat.
The yolk and white of purple eggs;
The toenail from a mouldy leg.
The tooth of a rabid, wild dog;
Mixed with the mud of an old bog.
A sprig of holly from last year
And from a crazed bear, rip an ear.
The cold blood from within a shark;z
Eerie shadows from in the dark.
Poo of skunk and smell of rat;
Sweat of munk and fart of cat;
Smell of feet and hair of cow;
Odour of meat and a fiend’s vow.
Obama's llama, Bin Laden's karma
Hitler's rule and another fool
Stalin's murders, Mcdonald's burgers.
Nazi parties, blood-stained smarties.
Slime of worm and dirt of nail;
Taste of frogs and a small mous’tail.
Eye of snake and skin of onion;
Mouth of girl and grandma’s bunion.
Screams and ghouls beneath the dark;
Foot and eyeball of a lark;
Toe-nail eyebrow mixed between
To make a poison all too keen.
In goes the hot chocolate along with the cream,
With best wishes with a good dream.
By good means the teddy bear drops,
Along with him the rabbits ears flop.
Thursday, 28 November 2013
Act III Scene 4
First Murderer appears at the door
MACBETH:
See, they encounter thee with their hearts’ thanks.
Both sides are even: here I’ll sit i’ the midst:
Be large in mirth; anon we’ll drink a measure
The table round.
Approaching the door
There’s blood on thy face.
FIRST MURDERER:
’Tis Banquo’s then.
MACBETH:
’Tis better thee without than he within.
Is he dispatch’d?
FIRST MURDERER:
My lord, his throat is cut; that I did for him.
MACBETH:
Thou art the best o’ the cut-throats: yet he’s good
That did the like for Fleance: if thou didst it,
Thou art the nonpareil.
FIRST MURDERER:
Most royal sir,
Fleance is ’scaped.
MACBETH:
Then comes my fit again: I had else been perfect,
Whole as the marble, founded as the rock,
As broad and general as the casing air:
But now I am cabin’d, cribb’d, confined, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears. But Banquo’s safe?
FIRST MURDERER:
Ay, my good lord: safe in a ditch he bides,
With twenty trenched gashes on his head;
The least a death to nature.
MACBETH:
Thanks for that:
There the grown serpent lies; the worm that’s fled
Hath nature that in time will venom breed,
No teeth for the present. Get thee gone: to-morrow
We’ll hear, ourselves, again.
Exit Murderer
This scene gives the audience key insight into Macbeth's mind, firstly you can see from his words that he was "perfect" with the thought that banquo and fleance escaped. However I think that one of the reasons Macbeth reacted this way was because he now knows that his children will not be king. Secondly he now knows that flelance can testify to saying that his fathers death was not an accident.
MACBETH:
Blood hath been shed ere now, i’ the olden time,
Ere human statute purged the gentle weal;
Ay, and since too, murders have been perform’d
Too terrible for the ear: the times have been,
That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
And there an end; but now they rise again,
With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,
And push us from our stools: this is more strange
Than such a murder is.
LADY MACBETH:
My worthy lord,
Your noble friends do lack you.
MACBETH:
I do forget.
Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends,
I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing
To those that know me. Come, love and health to all;
Then I’ll sit down. Give me some wine; fill full.
I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table,
And to our dear friend Banquo, whom we miss;
Would he were here! to all, and him, we thirst,
And all to all.
LORDS:
__Our duties, and the pledge.
Re-enter Ghost Of Banquo
This extract occurs just after the ghost of banquo had entered the feast. In it, Macbeth's sense of natural order of the world has been distorted. This is because in the past he has killed many people and never before has he seen a ghost
"the times have been,
That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
And there an end; but now they rise again,"
The text was taken from:
BBC Booknotes
MACBETH:
See, they encounter thee with their hearts’ thanks.
Both sides are even: here I’ll sit i’ the midst:
Be large in mirth; anon we’ll drink a measure
The table round.
Approaching the door
There’s blood on thy face.
FIRST MURDERER:
’Tis Banquo’s then.
MACBETH:
’Tis better thee without than he within.
Is he dispatch’d?
FIRST MURDERER:
My lord, his throat is cut; that I did for him.
MACBETH:
Thou art the best o’ the cut-throats: yet he’s good
That did the like for Fleance: if thou didst it,
Thou art the nonpareil.
FIRST MURDERER:
Most royal sir,
Fleance is ’scaped.
MACBETH:
Then comes my fit again: I had else been perfect,
Whole as the marble, founded as the rock,
As broad and general as the casing air:
But now I am cabin’d, cribb’d, confined, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears. But Banquo’s safe?
FIRST MURDERER:
Ay, my good lord: safe in a ditch he bides,
With twenty trenched gashes on his head;
The least a death to nature.
MACBETH:
Thanks for that:
There the grown serpent lies; the worm that’s fled
Hath nature that in time will venom breed,
No teeth for the present. Get thee gone: to-morrow
We’ll hear, ourselves, again.
Exit Murderer
This scene gives the audience key insight into Macbeth's mind, firstly you can see from his words that he was "perfect" with the thought that banquo and fleance escaped. However I think that one of the reasons Macbeth reacted this way was because he now knows that his children will not be king. Secondly he now knows that flelance can testify to saying that his fathers death was not an accident.
MACBETH:
Blood hath been shed ere now, i’ the olden time,
Ere human statute purged the gentle weal;
Ay, and since too, murders have been perform’d
Too terrible for the ear: the times have been,
That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
And there an end; but now they rise again,
With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,
And push us from our stools: this is more strange
Than such a murder is.
LADY MACBETH:
My worthy lord,
Your noble friends do lack you.
MACBETH:
I do forget.
Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends,
I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing
To those that know me. Come, love and health to all;
Then I’ll sit down. Give me some wine; fill full.
I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table,
And to our dear friend Banquo, whom we miss;
Would he were here! to all, and him, we thirst,
And all to all.
LORDS:
__Our duties, and the pledge.
Re-enter Ghost Of Banquo
This extract occurs just after the ghost of banquo had entered the feast. In it, Macbeth's sense of natural order of the world has been distorted. This is because in the past he has killed many people and never before has he seen a ghost
"the times have been,
That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
And there an end; but now they rise again,"
The text was taken from:
BBC Booknotes
Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Monday, 25 November 2013
Macbeth Video
Group A: Jono, Connell, Amy, Henrietta
Immediately executed the necessary steps to address the activity. Organised effectively a punctuation read. Working well as a team. Amy and Jono led the discussion at first, organising the team's time. Henrietta editing well. Connell pointing out the 60 second nature of the task, but rest of the group weren't listening, which was frustrating for him. Came to a group conclusion rather quickly about setting. Then had to revise original plan as hadn't fully anticipated how to edit the scene. Clear sense of what is happening in the scene. Separated it out into key moments. Henrietta and Amy used book notes and did some detailed editing. However, no real overview of time keeping. Noticed suddenly only 10mins left. Connell took over editing to speed it up. Some sense of frustration at not finishing this on time. Difficult to just get started, but did with only 3.5mins left!
B = 7 overall (may change with finished product)
Thursday, 14 November 2013
Extension of Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5
MACBETH:
My dearest I was thinking the same only but yesterday,
My dearest I was thinking the same only but yesterday,
This thought is the blackest of thoughts,
(TO HIMSELF) Not the thought of a women.
Nether the less Malcome has been made the new prince of
Cumberland. Unless we are to act soon my true fate shall never become.Are we to
use nature or mortal instrements? Never mind for that now… the King must not see
though our deceitful hearts, all he is to see are two welcoming hosts to a
magnificent feast. Is that understood?
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