Lord of Flies

1. "Individuals are basically evil and must constantly fight against their violent nature."
I agree with this statement. Although I don't think that people are born evil I rather believe that the society impacts us either negatively or positively as we grow up and the people we surround ourselves with determine who we will become. An example of this from society being that kids that are raised in foster care tend to be frustrated and angry and express themselves through violence which later on as life keeps going tends to become a problem. Whereas children that are raised in a home with both parents that have a healthy relationship don't tend to have this problem.

2. "Individuals will go along with any type of activity, no matter how violent, when pressured by their peers." I agree with this statement to a certain extent, as it is true that many individuals are influenced largely by their environment and peers. But there are also some limits that an individual may not dare to pass, but mostlycommonly they will. An example can easily used from Skakespares play "Macbeth" where the protagonist Macbeth is influenced by his wife; Lady Macbeth into committing a murder. This shows how important people in our lives can have a influence and can add a certain pressure on us. 

3. "The human race is destined to destroy itself" I competely agree with this viewpoint, based on previous worldwide examples such as WWI and WWII. Both of these wars should how a build of events is enough for countries and society to go to a stage where they'll willing to go any extent to win. In both of these wars, billions of lives were lost, and in my eyes for nothing. I believe that this statement is true, that when the end of humanity comes, it will come from ourselves; humans. 

4. "Rules and punishments are absolutely necessary if we are to maintain a civilized society." I believe that rules and punishments are important to maintain a civilized society, because without rules, there is a window of opportunity for any possible disaster. Without rules and limits, the society that would be out of control and no longer called a society. The definition of society is aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community. In order for a community to be in control and organized there needs to be platform of rules and limits. An example of how important rules are is traffic, imagine living in a country with no traffic rules. Without these rules, there are countless ways to cause destruction to ourselves and others. 

5. "We are our own worst enemy." I can see what perspective this person may have looking at when they said this, because it is true in many cases. Everything that had envovled in society is because of humans. We create and destroy the world around us with every new piece of technology and knowledge. The world war examples can also be applied here again, because in those wars we proved that only a human would want to hurt another human in such ways. The holocaust is a unfortunate event in history that also shows how humans can be the cause of so many disasters that only harm ourselves. It's like we're slowly hurting ourselves and others around us on purpose.

Macbeth Monologue

Macbeth: 

Whence is that knocking?—
How is’t with me, when every noise appals me?
What hands are here! Ha, they pluck out mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red. (2.2.55-61)

He has just murdered Duncan, and the crime was accompanied by supernatural portents. Now he hears a mysterious knocking on his gate, which seems to promise doom. (In fact, the person knocking is Macduff, who will indeed eventually destroy Macbeth.) The enormity of Macbeth’s crime has awakened in him a powerful sense of guilt that will hound him throughout the play. Blood, specifically Duncan’s blood, serves as the symbol of that guilt, and Macbeth’s sense that “all great Neptune’s ocean” cannot cleanse him—that there is enough blood on his hands to turn the entire sea red—will stay with him until his death. Lady Macbeth’s response to this speech will be her prosaic remark, “A little water clears us of this deed” (2.2.65). By the end of the play, however, she will share Macbeth’s sense that Duncan’s murder has irreparably stained them with blood.

Macbeth Themes/Motifs: Connections to Contemporary Society

Ambition: Everyone has a desire to pertain a goal and the extent and steps you're willing to take can show how driven you really are. Slow down there, Macbeth, because these ladies haven't said a word about murder. The fact that his first thought is about killing the king is mighty suspicious—almost as though they've just awoken a murderous ambition that's been there all along. Macbeth describes his ambition as being "black and deep desires," which makes it sound very wrong. Is ambition okay in any context, or are we all supposed to let fate and chance toss us around? 

MACBETH 


My thought,

whose murder yet is but fantastical, 


Shakes so my single state of man


That function is smother'd in surmise,

 
and nothing is but what is not. (1.3.52-55)


MACBETH [aside] 


The Prince of Cumberland!

That is a 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 wink at the hand; yet let that be


Which the eye fears,

when it is done, to see. (1.4.55-60)


Fate and Free Will: The extent to which we control our own destinies. Basically, the captain says here that Macbeth should have died in battle—but he was stronger than his fate. If this is true, then Macbeth has no one to blame but himself. But notice that the captain calls Macbeth "rebels whore": Macbeth may escape fortune this time, but that "rebel's whore" will get him in the end. Once he learns that King Duncan has named Malcolm the Prince of Cumberland and heir to the crown of Scotland, Macbeth isn't content to wait around for "chance" to intervene. He decides that he must take action, or "o'erleap" the obstacles in his path to the throne. By murder. Well, this seems pretty willful.

CAPTAIN 

And Fortune, on his damnèd quarrel smiling, 

Show'd like a rebel's whore. But all's too weak; 

For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name) 

Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel, 

Which smoked with bloody execution, (1.2.16-20)

MACBETH [Aside] 

The Prince of Cumberland!

That is a 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 wink at the hand; yet let that be,


Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. (1.4.55-60)


Appearance and Reality:  Clearly, Shakespeare's talking about pollution, the witches set us up here to mistrust everything. In the fog, it's hard to tell what's really there. Next quote sounds familiar. Didn't the weird sisters just say almost the exact same thing? Has Macbeth seen this play before, or does he already have some kind of psychic connection with the weird sisters?


ALL 


Fair is foul, and foul is fair;
Hover through the fog and filthy air. (1.1.12-13)

MACBETH

So foul and fair a day I have not seen. (1.3.39)

Personality Profile and Summary

According to the online personality quiz I am a visual learner. I completely agree with this statement and both the online quiz and test results. Its shocking how accurate the results turned out to be. Although there are some things I didn't know about myself but after reading the results I realized that I am spatial learner.