Blog 4/14

For this week, please post your reading/working time, including time you spent working on your Nervous Conditions project outside of class. 

Nervous Conditions Project- 2 hrs

Also, respond to two of the statements below, explaining whether you disagree strongly, disagree, neither agree nor disagree, agree, or agree strongly.  Use examples from your experience and connect the statement to Macbeth.


1. Women are more compassionate and less violent than men.

I neither disagree nor agree because this statement could go both ways. In Macbeth, I feel as though Lady Macbeth wants to kill King Duncan more than Macbeth does because she thinks he is too nice and will chicken out. However, Lady Macbeth does say: "unsex me here." This could be interpreted as she needs God to turn her into a man, so she will have no guilt to kill Duncan as if she was a man. In her mind, men should have no fears and do violent things with no regrets. 

2. Some things are destined or fated to happen.
I agree with this because everything happens for a reason because God has a plan for everyone's life whether you like it or not. In this story, Duncan is killed for a specific reason that we, as the reader, do not know about yet. Everyone wants to kill him because they are upset that Malcom is his successor, so maybe he would have done a bad job ruling. We will soon find out what the reason is.