Thursday, February 10, 2011

This week,we continue to learn and read sbout the "Act 1 scene 2" of Macbeth.The language that Shakesphere used was very unique.He used imabic pentameter in most of the lines.Iambic means natural while pentameter means 10. So the lines has 10 syllabus and can be read naturally with a syllabus being stressed and the one after it not stresssed and so on and so for.The language used have a deep meaninng in it and they used simile and metaphor."Smoked with bloody execution" shows swifness and speed while "like a rebel's whore" is referring to it as prostitude.By reading this,I can understand the story.
Scene 2 show about the captain reporting to the King Duncan of the situation of the war .Although Macdonwald was powerful but still Macbeth won and killed him in a split second..Norwegin King saw this chance and attacked them,this still didn't frightened Macbeth and Banquo,instead they became braver .Now it was Ross who report that they won and that they told the Norwegian KIng that they only allowed them to bury their men when they retreated and paid them $10 000.So,Cawdor was executed and his titles was given to Macbeth.


This was what I had learnt and we were also told to draw a comic strip of part of the story which would help us to understand more about the story.I think that if we were shown a video Macbeth,we would then really understand it.