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“MACBETH
She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
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.”

In this passage Macbeth’s wife has just committed suicide , there’s an army of ten thousand men outside to kill him made up of his former friends and his subjects. And the only people that’ll fight for him have to be forced with the threat of death.

Macbeth started out as a powerful , respected character. He is established early on as a brave man “For brave Macbeth—well he deserves that name— Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel.” Shakespeare has made the painted Macbeth as a hero. We can see how corrupt Macbeth has become by this quote. “(aside) If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.Without my stir.” This quote from Macbeth says that he will not do anything to become King and let what happens happens. Macbeth’s mental state has always been in question. After winning the battle he wouldn’t allow the enemies to bury their dead until they him. And when he told Lady Macbeth about the witches and she was trying to persuade him to kill Duncan , He kept flipping from killing Duncan to not. No one with a strong mental state is able to switch between two extremes so quickly. Macbeth has killed his best friend and another good friend for lady Macbeth and now she’s gone so now he completely alone. He has made life decisions from what a power obsessed wife and a couple of witches have told him. He thinks his life is unimportant and worthless and this can be gathered from his speech. “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.” This is a metaphor for life and Macbeth is talking about his life signifying nothing. But there is more to this quote. This can also be seen as Shakespeare speaking through Macbeth. The people who hear this back when it was first performed would be very fascinated by this as characters on stage never refer to actors on stage it would’ve got them thinking about the playwright and his message. There are earlier examples of Macbeth loosing his mind. After learning that his murder has  successfully killed Banquo he sees his ghost. This is Macbeth’s mind deteriorating. In this passage Macbeth doesn’t speak with the iambic pentameter. The loss of Macbeth’s iambic pentameter is a sign of Macbeth’s deteriorating state of mind. A loss of the iambic pentameter can be a sign of Macbeth loosing his mind. If we look at Lady Macbeth before she died she had also lost her iambic pentameter, she was babbling about everything. The doctor told Macbeth that it’s a problem of the mind not the body. Back in those times you’d be able to hear the iambic pentameter but people these days won’t notice it. Iambic pentameter is a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable. Early in the play Macbeth speaks with Iambic pentameter “Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland. In such an honor named. What’s more to do, Which would be planted newly with the time.” If you try you can hear the iambic pentameter but try yo hear it in this part of the speech  “She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word.” You can also do this with Lady Macbeth before she went crazy and after. Before : “That’s the business, That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley The sleepers of the house? speak, speak!” After : “To bed, to bed! there’s knocking at the gate: come, come, come, come, give me your hand. What’s done cannot be undone.–To bed, to bed, to bed!” There’s been a lot of talk of paradoxes in Macbeth. “Lesser than Macbeth, and greater. Not so happy, yet much happier So foul and fair a day I have not seen“. Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none. So from that spring whence comfort seemed to come, discomfort swells. Fathered he is, and yet he’s fatherless. There’s a lot of dramatic irony in Macbeth. Dramatic irony is where the audience know something that a character in the play doesn’t for example when Duncan says he trusts Macbeth. There are many instances in this play where dramatic irony is used. There’s also a lot if times when Macbeth talks in an “aside” this means no one else on stage can hear what he’s saying. Dramatic irony can be an important tool to show Macbeth’s deteriorating state of mind. After the witches told Macbeth that he was going to be king he said “(aside) If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.Without my stir.” This shows Macbeth’s true motives before Lady Macbeth had influenced him and it also shows how much she’s changed him.

This essay is about answering the question how does Shakespeare present Macbeth deteriorating state of mind? There are many points in the play where Macbeth’s mental state has been in questions. Some people understand the witches as a figment of Macbeth’s imagination. But this quote shows that Macbeth has truly deteriorated and we know this because of his words and his loss of Iambic pentameter.

I’m interested in joining This Sixth form because I want to gain A-levels and advance on to university.  I would like to go to this sixth form because I think the environment would be beneficial to me. I know I can be a great addition to this sixth-form. At my current school I was involved in the rugby team and the school newsletter called Splash I also have a number of household duties. I can work by myself or part of a team these skills were further developed during work experience. Where I working for company Boots located in Brixton. At work experience I learned about how stores run. I want to take courses in Business , English literature , ICT and Psychology. I plan to get A-levels in these subjects and go on after University to do something in those fields such as a Business manager. I currently go to London Nautical School , I have recently done my mock exams and talked about it with my teachers and we feel that I didn’t perform to the best of my abilities in some of my subjects but all that is needed for me to do well is further revision. I currently do Geography , ICT , DT and Drama as well as the core subjects although I didn’t pick Business Studies I want to take it in Sixth-Form. My strong subjects are ICT and English. My weak subjects are maths and science , because I recognise this I have additional support in these subjects.  I am not a sporty person , more interested in computers and games but starting to go out more and more with my friends. I haven’t had a job but tried to apply for my work experience during the summer. I think soon I might have a job but I would have to make sure it doesn’t collide with my school studies as they are more important. I have an uncle who works in web design and I’ve talked to him about summer job working for him which will teach me a lot and introduce me to a lot of different tech. From this Sixth form I hope to gain as many A-Levels as possible. From there I hope to go to university to further my education.

The moments leading up to the Macbeth killing King Duncan he goes through a lot of changes. As he tries to make sense of his actions he imagines a dagger. We know it’s not real he tries to grab it and he can’t touch it. Macbeth is having hallucinations , his brain is trying to make sense of what he’s doing so he imagines things. He hears a bell and says it’s inviting him. He’s trying to move blame from him he also says that this is ment to happen as it was easy to set up. Going back to the dagger instead of realising it’s an illusion he says that he can only rely on his eyes and all his other sense are tricking him. Macbeth is trying to shed blame and make it right to himself. After he does the dead in the next scene Lady Macbeth says she would’ve killed the King herself only if he didn’t look like her father. She is also making up reasons as to why she couldn’t kill the King. Macbeth’s state of mind is deterioratenig. The witches can be said to be illusions but Banquo also saw them but the blade is an illusion and that really puts into question Macbeth’s sanity. He is about to kill a man who’s been good too him and (believed to be) chosen God. After the murder Macbeth refuses to put the blades next to the gaurds to frame them and spoke loudly of the crime like he wanted to get caught. Subconsciously Macbeth knows what he did was wrong and the only thing right would be to get admit the truth and take full blame. After doing the dead Macbeth cannot bless the body he says he couldn’t get it out. Macbeth feels like God has abonded him. Macbeth also imanged that a sleeping curse has been put on him and the tought the play he doesn’t sleep. Not sleeping can turn a person crazy as they need sleep and Macbeth can only go bad with this. Macbeth wishes he could go back and thinks himself q bad person who’s been abounded by God and worthy of punshiment.

Research information about Franz Kafka’s Life.

Born on July 3, 1883, in Prague, capital of what is now the Czech Republic, writer Franz Kafka grew up in an upper middle-class Jewish family. After studying law at the University of Prague, he worked in insurance and wrote in the evenings. In 1923, he moved to Berlin to focus on writing, but died of tuberculosis shortly after. His friend Max Brod published most of his work posthumously, such as Amerika and The Castle. Writer Franz Kafka was the eldest son of an upper middle-class Jewish family who was born on July 3, 1883, in Prague, the capital of Bohemia, a kingdom that was a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Tragedy shaped the Kafka home. Franz’s two younger brothers, Georg and Heinrich, died in infancy by the time Kafka was 6, leaving the boy the only son in a family that included three daughters (all of whom would later die in Nazi death camps or a Polish ghetto). Kafka had a difficult relationship with both of his parents. His mother, Julie, was a devoted homemaker who lacked the intellectual depth to understand her son’s dreams to become a writer. Kafka’s father, Hermann, had a forceful personality that often overwhelmed the Kafka home. He was a success in business, making his living retailing men’s and women’s clothes. Kafka’s father had a profound impact on both Kafka’s life and writing. He was a tyrant of sorts, with a wicked temper and little appreciation for his son’s creative side. Much of Kafka’s personal struggles, in romance and other relationships, came, he believed, in part from his complicated relationship with his father. In his literature, Kafka’s characters were often coming up against an overbearing power of some kind, one that could easily break the will of men and destroy their sense of self-worth. Kafka seems to have derived much of his value directly from to his family, in particular his father. For much of his adult life, he lived within close proximity to his parents. German was his first language. In fact, despite his Czech background and Jewish roots, Kafka’s identity favored German culture. Kafka was a smart child who did well in school even at the Altstädter Staatsgymnasium, an exacting high school for the academic elite. Still, even while Kafka earned the respect of his teachers, he chafed under their control and the school’s control of his life. After high school Kafka enrolled at the Charles Ferdinand University of Prague, where intended to study chemistry but after just two weeks switched to law. The change pleased his father, and also gave Kafka the time to take classes in art and literature. In 1906 Kafka completed his law degree and embarked on a year of unpaid work as a law clerk. After completing his apprenticeship, Kafka found work with an Italian insurance agency in late 1907. It was a terrible fit from the start, with Kafka forced to work a tiring schedule that left little time for his writing. He lasted at the agency a little less than a year. After turning in his resignation he quickly found a new job with the Workers’ Accident Insurance Institute for the Kingdom of Bohemia. As much as any work could, the job and his employers suited Kafka, who worked hard and became his boss’s right-hand man. Kafka remained with the company until 1917, when a bout with tuberculosis forced him to take a sick leave and to eventually retire in 1922. At work Kafka was a popular employee, easy to socialize with and seen as somebody with a good sense of humor. But his personal life still raged with complications. His inhibitions and insecurities plagued his relationships. Twice he was engaged to marry his girlfriend, Felice Bauer, before the two finally went their separate ways in 1917. Later, Kafka later fell in love with Dora Dymant (Diamant), who shared his Jewish roots and a preference for socialism. Amidst Kafka’s increasingly dire health, the two fell in love and lived together in Berlin. Their relationship largely centered on Kafka’s illnesses. For many years, even before he contracted tuberculosis, Kafka had not been well. Constantly strained and stressed, he suffered from migraines, boils, depression, anxiety and insomnia. Kafka and Dora eventually returned to Prague. In an attempt to overcome his tuberculosis, Kafka traveled to Vienna for treatment at a sanatorium. He died in Kierling, Austria, on June 3, 1924. He was buried beside his parents in Prague’s New Jewish Cemetery in Olsanske. While Kafka strove to earn a living, he also poured himself into his writing work. An old friend named Max Brod would prove crucial in supporting Kafka’s literary work both during his life and long after it. Kafka’s celebrity as a writer only came after his death. During his lifetime, he published just a sliver of his overall work. His most popular and best-selling short story, “The Metamorphosis,” was completed in 1912 and published in 1915. The story was written from Kafka’s third-floor room, which offered a direct view of the Vltava River and its toll bridge. “I would stand at the window for long periods,” he wrote in his diary in 1912, “and was frequently tempted to amaze the toll collector on the bridge below by my plunge.” Kafka followed up “The Metamorphosis” with Mediation, a collection of short stories, in 1913, and “Before the Law,” a parable within his novel The Trial, written between 1914 and 1915. Even with his worsening health, Kafka continued to write. In 1916 he completed “The Judgment,” which spoke directly about the relationship he shared with his father. Later works included “In the Penal Colony” and “A Country Doctor,” both finished in 1919. In 1924, an ill but still working Kafka finished A Hunger Artist, which features four stories that demonstrate the concise and lucid style that marked his writing at the end of his life. But Kafka, still living with the demons that plagued with him self-doubt, was reluctant to unleash his work on the world. He requested that Brod, who doubled as his literary executor, destroy any unpublished manuscripts. Fortunately, Brod did not adhere to his friend’s wishes and in 1925 published The Trial, a dark, paranoid tale that proved to be the author’s most successful novel. The story centers on the life of Joseph K., who is forced to defend himself in a hopeless court system against a crime that is never revealed to him or to the reader. The following year, Brod released The Castle, which again railed against a faceless and dominating bureaucracy. In the novel, the protagonist, whom the reader knows only as K., tries to meet with the mysterious authorities who rule his village. In 1927, the novel Amerika was published. The story hinges on a boy, Karl Rossmann, who is sent by his family to America, where his innocence and simplicity are exploited everywhere he travels. Amerika struck at the same father issues that were prevalent in so much of Kafka’s other work. But the story also spoke to Kafka’s love of travel books and memoirs (he adored The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin) and his longing to see the world. In 1931, Brod published the short story “The Great Wall of China,” which Kafka had originally crafted 14 years before. Incredibly, at the time of his death Kafka’s name was known only to small group of readers. It was only after he died and Max Brod went against the demands of his friend that Kafka and his work gained fame. His books garnered favor during World War II, especially, and greatly influenced German literature. As the 1960s took shape and Eastern Europe was under the fist of bureaucratic Communist governments, Kafka’s writing resonated particularly strongly with readers. So alive and vibrant were the tales that Kafka spun about man and faceless organizations that a new term was introduced into the English lexicon: “Kafkaesque.”The measure of Kafka’s appeal and value as a writer was quantified in 1988, when his handwritten manuscript of The Trial was sold at auction for $1.98 million, at that point the highest price ever paid for a modern manuscript.The buyer, a West German book dealer, gushed after his purchase was finalized. “This is perhaps the most important work in 20th-century German literature,” he said, “and Germany had to have it.”

1. During 1883-1910
2. Kafka had a bad relationship with his father , he thought he was all of these things :loudness of voice, eloquence, self-satisfaction, worldly dominance. His childhood was lonely as on working days both parents were gone. This could leave a child lonely and feeling isolated from the world , it can have a bad effect on someone.
3. He might be saying that people are greatly influenced by there families and they make a person and break a person. Him turning Gregor to an insect could be him saying they’ve burned him out and broke him. He was never happy in the play , overworked and underappreciated. This play shows how selfish people can be. And there are a lot of similarities between Gregor’s family and his. His mum was shy and quiet like the mu=other in the play ,  the father is a dominating and angry man also selfish which is how Kafka has described his father. And he has a servent girl in real like but a sister in the play. Gregor is also like Kafka.

The is the first book in a series by Sherrilyn Kenyon. The series is about a boy called Nick who finds out he its part of a supernatural race called “malachi” who are very powerful and angry. The first book is mainly about things falling into place. Throughout this book Nick saves his town from zombies while doing so he learns what he is and finds out about some other people’s powers that later become his friends. This book is written so we know things that Nick doesn’t know and doesn’t find out until much later. We learn about his power potential before he does. We also learn there are two Nicks a older one called Ambrose who lives in a very different future where everything has gone bad and Nick has become a beast. In this book we learn Nick is far from the path that Ambrose is on as supernatural natural beings have gone back in time and become friends with Nick like Nekoda. Ambrose is trying to help Nick to change his path so he doesn’t end up like him but eventually loses control. Throughout this book we are reminded of good and bad , some of the themes of this book are about choosing your own future and bravery and will power.

Act 1 Scene 3 : “In the last paragraph from Macbeth he says “The prince of Cumberland that is step on which I must fall down or else o’erleap for in my way it lies. Stars hide your fires let not light see my black and deep desires the eye link at the hand yet let that be which the eye fears when it’s done to see.”

This is all said in an aside which means he’s talking to the audience so other people can’t hear him and he can keep his thoughts to himself. In this aside Macbeth goes on to say Stars hide your fires let not light see my black and deep desires the eye link at the hand yet let that be which the eye fears when it’s done to see. This is him saying he doesn’t want anyone including himself to know what he wants to do. Stars hide your fires is a metaphor. Stars means the heavens , he doesn’t want God to see him and his actions. Black and deep desires are his thoughts about killing the King. The eye and hand bit is him saying he doesn’t want to know what he’s about to do. This is also a paradox because he can’t consciously fulfill his desire by killing the King while not knowing what he’s doing.

It was a hot sunny day in May. The weather had been good lately which is surprising since this was in England. The place was full today. People slumped against trees sleeping like bears. Families out laughing and smiling soaking up the sun like it was going for a walk and never coming back. I took of my glasses and the true colours of the world hit me. Once dark trees turned into a variety of light and dark green Giants . Before everything had a blackish tint to it but now it was how it should be bright grass that had seemed to be dying were full of life. The burning ball of flames in the sky was too bright for my weak eyes, I returned my glasses to their place on my face. I thought about the change of scenery and decided to give my other senses a chance to work. I wore my earphones today , think that it would be a loud day but they also helped in the area of ignoring people without seeming rude. I removed them one ear at a time. As I did so the noise of the park fulled my ears. Dogs barking , the chatter of families , the shouting of basketball players that mixed in with the shouting of children. The noise of this place was loud , extreme even but full of life if you were to just sit and listen you could hear so much. As I got accustomed to the noise of the park I started to smell different scents like  flowers , the wild stink of some sweaty individuals as the rode , ran and jogged past. I felt the wind push up on me  , fly’s buzzing around my ear. My…friend sat next to me on my dark wooden bench. He was tall 6″4″ or 6″5″ , he had jet black hair that curled up together and dropped down past his ears. He wore white trainers that went well with navy blue jeans , white t-shit and black leather jacket. He sat next to me people-watching I looked up at him. His eyes blocked my his glasses that were similar to mine. A wicked smile spread across his face , revealing his bright white teeth that near shone in this light. We talked for some time nothing important I need to repeat other than I had two more days before I had to go back to…”work”. The day ran out quick like any other I left the place with only one thing on my mind. Why had Rex come all this way to tell me that , A text would’ve sufficed. And what was that smile. Rex seemed so strange back he knew so much about me , but I knew nothing about him. That day was the only day that had left me clueless in years and I loved not knowing. More the hunt for knowledge/information than being clueless but all those questions would get answered soon. But now knowing I think I’d rather not knowing. It was the next day , I’d decided to go at a different time today see if I saw anything new. It was six fifty , the clock on my wrist turning slowly to seven. It was different later on , the heat from the sun had dyed down to just warm but it still shone bright. Noises of happiness.I saw and heard laughing , playing and shouting. A gang of “friends” (and I chooses my words carefully) were on the grass in various positions. They were loud , annoying and intimidating.(to the civilians) There were many more people here which didn’t completely make sense to me but I wasn’t too bothered. A woman sat next to me. Normal height around 5″9″ , light brown curly hair , clear smooth brown skin. She started a conversation with me that went on for much longer that it felt. After a minute i’d learned that. She was English and Jamaican , she lived in Croydon and was down here to see friend or family , She’d been on holiday lately ,

He woke up , covers spread out over the floor. “It was a dream?” Mr.Senior asked himself. “That was all a dream?” After doing all his morning routine he jumped into his car and drove to work. He felt tired and could only think about his dream. “Why did I dream that?” “I wouldn’t kill myself … would I?” Before he knew it he was at work , He stepped out of his car and walked in to the “miserable abyss” that was his work. “You don’t look to good” Lisa pointed out “Rough Knight?” “Im fine , Just couldn’t sleep” “I was look at the case you have and I think w e can take the child in a couple of weeks” “No…Y-You should take him ASAP , I think he’s in danger.“It was clear that there was more to it than that but Lisa couldn’t be bothered to ask . Tyrone couldn’t get his dream out of his head , he couldn’t focus and eventually gave in . He called up the child . “What!”barked Darius “Who dis?” “THIS is Tyrone…your social worker.” “Oh yeah , Your not needed anymore so bye.” “What , its not your call to make … but i can come back down again and test you again.” “Test me again? Wat does dat mean I didn’t do well the first time.” “I just think first impressions were bad ” “Fine , Tomorrow” . It was the next day and Tyrone was on his way to Darius’s house , he was more than nervous and a little scared . He was driving fast and as he skidded his car into a spot right outside the house he was scared . Not knowing what he would find there but hoping it would be enough to take Tyreese for good. He knocked the door hand shaking and a bead of sweat rolling down his forehead. “Hey um yh u can come in “. “Yes i’m back to see – “I’m sorry for how I acted Before i was a different person before”.”People don’t change”Tyrone muttered under his breath”.

Tyrone walked in and instantly noticed there were no empty cans along the floor and there was no more of that dead animal smell.”So…wat can I help u with?” “I want to talk to you son“Tyrone said sternly. “ok” Tyrone walked into Tyreese room. He looked around the room trying to find something that would justify him taking Tyreese. Tyreese and Tyrone had a long talk which contained Tyrone trying to get Tyreese to admit he needed help. Tyrone couldn’t stop thinking about his dream and he was half there through the conservation.Tyrone went to that house with backup on speed dial but left feeling that he’d been cheated , he analysed the visit tyrone to make something out of nothing . Like the fact that he didn’t see Tyeese stand up throught the whole visit and he was hung up on maybe seeing a empty vodka bottle but not being sure. Tyrone went home with no answers but determined to find out what was really going on. As Tyrone stepped through the door he flung his jacket onto the floor and started for a beer in the fridge. Three hours later Tyrone had thought up the best plan to catch Darius. There was a loud banging at the door but it was more like a warning than a knock as Darius burst through the door. Tyrone sat the drunk Darius down and they had a talk , a long talk about themselves , each of their past’s and whats in store for the future. Tyrone even told him about the dream and what he thought he saw at Darius’s house. There was a sudden change in Darius as he began to realise what Tyrone really was , he was the enemy trying to take his child away from him . There had been a lot of people seeing what they thought they saw and what they wanted to see. When Tyrone left Darius’s house that day he convinced himself that he saw the bottle and that Tyreese not standing up was a thing but it was really what he wanted to see. But when Darius saw Tyrone reach for the phone he saw both , he wanted a excuse to do what he did so that was what he wanted to see and well as what he thought he saw. Darius worked quick , he pushed Tyrone down to the ground and punched him enough so he was dazed but not to much so he’d be awake for Darius to wrap his hands around Tyrone’s throat and squeeze till Tyrone was dead. After that Darius left , as fast as he could he drove to his house to then find his son dead in his bed , blood everywhere as Tyrone had slit his own wrists leaving a note saying sorry for his mother.

 

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Magwich first describes Compeyson says “I’d crack wi’ this poker, like the claw of a lobster”
In this simile Dickens creates the connotation that it was easy and he done it without thinking. A lobster could crack a skull easily and its like second nature to it.
We know this to be easy for Magwitch as he hates compeyson and scarafced hia freedom to put him back in jail

“My sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, was more than twenty years older than I, and had established a great reputation with herself and the neighbors because she had brought me up “by hand.” Having at that time to find out for myself what the expression meant, and knowing her to have a hard and heavy hand, and to be much in the habit of laying it upon her husband as well as upon me, I supposed that Joe Gargery and I were both brought up by hand.”

My task was to find some irony in the book and i’ve found irony here. Being brought up by hand’s connotation means in a personal and caring way. But the denotation which you wouldnt usually use is literal . In this context it means being hit . The way how the two are completely different is ironic