I thought the play Macbeth was a very interesting story to read. I feel like even though it is so old it still relates to todays world so much it made it easier and more fun to read. I thought it was very well written, considering its by Shakespeare. I thought it could teach a lot about todays world with the old scenes in the story. I was not expecting it to end that way but i think it was a good way for the book to end. I think the final images the film makers portrayed were very moving and really told the story well and left you with what I think Shakespeare wanted the reader to be left feeling like. I think he was trying to make a point about ambition and how its good to a certain extent until you either get to much ambition or pair ambition with bad intentions.
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I think that Shakespeare's message about ambition seems to be that too much ambition can be a bad thing. I think he thinks that ambition overall is good and is a good thing for a person to have but if someone has an excess amount of this ambition it can lead to bad things instead of good ones I think by the end of the play something bad will happen, considering he is foreshadowing it now.
I remember that William Shakespeare writes plays. Many of his works are themed on tragedy and comedy. He wrote them a long time ago in the 1500's and the language he uses goes along with that, using phrases that we no longer use today because of how language has changed. Shakespeare is very well known and a very good writer and incorporates a lot of different things into his writing which is why we read Shakespeare so much in high school. Last year it was kind of difficult reading Shakespeare because some of the ways they said things back then have changed so it sounded different and it was hard to translate it to how we would say it today. The only part of Shakespeare that I enjoyed was the romance in Romeo and Juliet, although i did not necessarily enjoy the style of writing.
The gallery walk was very eye opening, what i saw was similar to what I had thought about the themes in Lord of the Flies. I did not have enough time to look at very many projects but the ones that I did see had strong ideas about how being away from a normal society, and similar to my project,having a thirst for power can lead people to do things that are wrong. How being away from normalcy can change people and let out their "inner beast". I hadn't really thought about comparing Jack and Hitler's actual actions, I considered their personalities and how they both wanted power, but i never thought about comparing the deaths that the other project I looked at did. I thought this project overall was very good and a great learning experience.
One of the many symbols in Lord of the Flies is the boy's uniforms. As the boys are on the island, and time continues to pass, they are each losing bits and pieces of their school uniforms. This symbolizes how they are breaking away from the uniformity of the school and becoming their own people on the island. In the beginning they all had the same clothes and relatively no disagreements. The boys uniforms are changing and becoming more individualized as their opinions begin to differ from each other also. The uniforms symbolize how each person is becoming themselves and creating their own ideas instead of all being the same and thinking the same things.
I think that the most significant thing that i took away from this weeks EdCafe was that there are so many different viewpoints of how the book is and should be. Many people had similar ideas as me of what was happening and what was going to happen, but there were also many people that gave me a look into their minds and see the book so far in a different way. Something that I discussed that i think anyone that reads this book should discuss about is about Piggy being leader. I think that Piggy being a leader has to be thought when discussing this book because so many people have very different opinions on whether he would be a good leader or not because although he is very intelligent, nobody takes him serious enough.
I thought that the first pages of the book went by very fast. There was a lot going on for the short amount of pages that we read. You learn a lot of information about where they are, on an island, and who some of the main characters are, like Piggy and Ralph. Also, Ralph thinks his father is going to come find them, but if they are stranded on an island I doubt that will happen anytime soon. Although so much was happening it was pretty easy to comprehend that a plane full of school boys crashed onto an island. I think at this point if I have any confusion it is because the characters are confused also. I also noticed that the book seemed very casual, the way the characters talked and the things they said sounded like how little boys would actually talk which helped the book seem a little more realistic to me.
If I were stranded on an island with some of my friends I would want to have a water filter. Fresh water would be very important and I would be surrounded by salt-water but the drinkable water would probably be scarce. If I had a water filter I would not be able to run out of the water that we need to survive. I would also want to have seeds with me for vegetables and other things I could grow to use as a constant source of food. I would want to have some animals, like cows, so when we need to we can milk them or use them for food. Those are some things I would want to have.
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