Macbeth Anticipation Guide

Directions: Read the following statements. Write if you agree or disagree.  Write two sentences and a personal experience to support your thoughts about each statement. There are no right or wrong answers! 

1.     Behind every great man is a great woman (every great man is supported, guided, helped and even pushed by a great woman).

2.     Witches, demons, and evil spirits actually exist.

3.     Sometimes it is necessary to do something wrong to get what you want.

4.     What goes around comes around (karma).

5.     Human beings are easily tempted by things they want, even if it’s wrong.

6.     If someone feels that the ruler/s of his/her country is destroying the country, that person should try to overthrow the ruler/s.

7.     There are circumstances or events that justify murdering someone.

8.     Success is worth any price you have to pay.

9.     Kings are appointed by God, and they rule as His representatives on Earth.

10.  Your astrological forecast (your horoscope) is a good indicator of how your day will go.

1. I feel that this is true and I strongly agree with this statement. The reason is because if you look at every successful person, there is always some type of women like figure in some man's life. An example of a women like figure would be a mother. I know from personal experience that my mom gives me a lot of support and helps me accomplish many things.

2. I also believe this because I heard from personal experiences that there is always and equal amount of two opposite things. So if we know that there are good spirits and deities like God, then there must be evil spirits like demons.

3. Truthfully, I am neutral on this subject because i don't really have any experience with it. But from what i know, I say it depends on the situation you are in. But i agree with this statement more than disagree because I've seen people in history and in present do horrible things to get what they want.

4. I agree with this. From personal experiences, I know that things always balance out. There is never too much of one thing. So therefore, the way you act always is done back to you.

5. I agree with this statement also. The reason is because it is human nature to always be tempted by something we want. Even if its wrong, humans still tend to have a want for it. An example would be lust. Another example would be how Hitler wanted complete and udder world domination. This was wrong because everyone should be equal, and this tempted him to kill many people.

6. I believe that they should do this. The reason is because many people work so that the country can thrive and be successful. So if one person causes everyones work to fail, then that person should not be in power.

7. In slight cases, like in cases of self defense, I guess that is would justify it. If the person Was threatening to harm you or your family it would be natural to defend yourself, Also in other cases, where the victim is in pain, it would help them to kill them so that they wouldn't feel pain no longer.

8. I disagree. The reason why is because i would only pay a price to a certain extent. This would be my personal time, effort and work. I wouldn't want my success to affect anyone else. Like I wouldn't want to pay my family as a price for success.

9. I do not believe this. The reason is because in the religion of Christianity, God created everyone equal. He didn't create anyone to rule over people. His only representatives in my opinion would be clergy, like priests and bishops.

10. I do not believe this. The reason is because an item shouldn't determine how things will turn out. You yourself should be in charge of your own destiny and work to make your day what you want it to be.

11. I am neutral on this subject because a traitor usually has their own reason for doing something. Each case has a different reason and you don't know whether its a good reason or a bad reason.

Once you are done with a partner look at the following questions and answer them together. Your answers need to be in complete sentences and you need to provide what you and your partner discussed. PROVIDE AT LEAST A PARAGRAPH PER ANSWER. Please list who your partner is. 

1. Is evil ingrained in human nature? That is, are some people just “born evil,” or is evil caused by circumstance or environment? 
2. Are our lives determined by fate, or by the acts of our free will? 
3. Is redemption truly possible? That is, is it possible to commit an act of genuine evil and truly recover from it? 
4. Is it possible to admire or respect a person whom you know has committed acts of genuine evil? 
5. Do “the ends justify the means”? That is, if one uses morally evil methods to acquire a goal, is that goal forever tainted or polluted by the actions one has taken to achieve it? 

1. I do not believe that Evil is ingrained into human nature. Because everyone is able to make their own decisions and able to have their own thoughts and mindset, it is the things they do in their own life that causes them to be evil. They are not just naturally born evil. So it would be caused by circumstances and the environment. In history, there was a man that believed in something called "tabalurasa". This meant that everyones is born blank. It is the individuals own decisions and that effects of society that cause the person to be the way they are. So if they turn our evil, that is because they made the wrong decisions or the community that they lived in taught them the wrong ideals.

2. This can be a controversy because I believe that our decisions from our free will will cause us to make decisions that lead us to our fate. But I would have to say this it is or free will that determines the life we live. Fate is basically what is meant to happen to you. so you usually don't know what happens as life goes on. Therefore, Fate cannot affect your life because fate is the result of your personal decisions. So our free will is what causes fate to occur and therefore what causes the events in our lives to occur.

3. I feel that it depends. The reason is because my religion states that it can be forgiven as long as you are truly sorry. But our society dictates that you can easily loose trust and it is very difficult to redeem yourself. So it depends on the situation. Religion, Catholicism that is, states that no matter what you have done, god will always forgive you, as long as you do penance and feel true sorrow and guilt for it. But in society, people can often loose their lives due to a very evil act. But in personal opinion and reality, it would be very difficult for me to trust or forgive anyone after a genuine act of evil.

4. I think that depending on the admirers point of view, then it could be possible. If the evil person has traits and ideals that the admirers like, then yes. An example would be Hitler, he was very evil and yet people admired him because his beliefs were the same as others. He killed an entire race. But you could be brain washed into thinking and admiring a genuine evil person. People like Hitler used people's beliefs against them. He used what they believed in to get and achieve what he believed in. But in our society today, like is said, people are usually smart enough to tell whether a person is truly evil.

5. Yes, the reason is because, like karma, what goes around comes around. So if you did something bad to achieve your goal, you would never be truly satisfied becuase you know that you didn't accomplish it with your hard work. I know from personal experience that I am never truly satisfied with cheating. The reason is because you know that your own hard work and dedication didn't lead up to your goal, it was someone else's. So it is the same when evil moral methods are used. Because you know something isn't good, it taints and pollutes that feelings of success and achievement.

Night Topic Research

In the time of World War 2, The leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, committed a great genocide. For the reasons of personal belief and to prove his power, he brutally murdered about 6 million Jewish people. "The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators."This event was an example of great inhumanity. The Jews, in no way, deserved the treatment that they did. Many people under his rule did not fear him, many of them did not believe in what he said. Research found that Hitler murdered them because of his own religious beliefs and that he also wanted to prove to all of Germany the extent of his power. 

 Therefore, this was one of his major motives. In about 1933, most of the jewish population of europe, which was 9 million, lived in nazi germany. The Nazi's viewed the Jewish population as a priority danger to their society.In fact,Adolph Hitler told them that the Jews were scheming against the Germans. Adolph was a master mind that knows how to manipulate any person around.Hitler was very smart actually,for him to convince thousands of people to torture humans he had to be smart. He put the Jews in concentration camps.These camps were very strict because Adolph was trying to prove a point and to show his power.

Reflection on the Book: Night

Night, written by elie wiesel, is a very unique and powerful book. It tells the tale that no other book can tell. It shows how the death and sadness of the holocaust emotionally, physically, and spiritually affected the Jewish people. Although much readers think that something so awful as the Holocaust cant relate to them, the life lessons learned from it can be very helpful and inspiring to everyone.

One thing that someone could learn from this book is to continue to have hope and faith, especially in times of sadness and loss. Faith sounds very religious, but even if you don't believe in God, that doesn't mean you cant have faith. People must have faith and hope that even when things are at its lowest, they have to believe that no matter what, it will get better. This is probably what kept Elie alive through such unbelievably harsh conditions. All the people around him had lost hope, therefore the already wanted to die. Faith and hope is what also keep us humane, because it allows us to see a future and value to life. Most of the prisoners became very inhumane. they only worried about their own survival. They no longer had hope that something good was going to happen and that things were going to get better. This is why their behavior was so primitive. They fought each other to the death just for a mere piece of bread.

Hope is not an easy thing to have, especially when things are at a low. These are times were a lot of things don't go your way, a time were you feel you have the worst luck. But what gets you out it is seeing a clear and bright future ahead of you. This is what kept Elie alive. Throughout events in the book, he continued to believe that there would be an end to this huge debacle. He struggled to keep the people around him positive. This is an example of what humanity needs to strive towards. Once we fail, or once something bad happens, we give up. Humans need to learn to stay positive. There is a saying. this saying is "There will always be a regression to the mean". This means that nothing will be too good or too bad for too long. Things will always tend to get back to normal. And in some cases this is true. This is why humanity must never lose faith nor hope.

Literary Check #3

1. Theme: Hope and Faith is a thing that many of us must continue to have, even in events of loss and sadness, like that of the book "Night", because it is what keeps us humane by allowing us to see a future and value in life.

Character: Hope is truly tested in times of sadness and loss, for Elie Wiesel and his father, they were proven to be the strongest after experiencing the severeness of the Holocaust.

2.
Quotes for Character Thesis:
" Lately he had wandered among us, his eyes glazed, telling everyone his weakness: ' I can't go on.. its all over'. It was impossible to raise his morale. He didn't listen to what we told him." (72)

This quote is an example how Eliezer and his father were able to keep their faith and hope high especially when  they were surrounded by people who had already given up on life. Not only did they still have their own hope, but they also tried to raise others.

"Wait a bit, Zalman. We shall be stopping soon. Were not going to run like this till the end of the world," (82)

This is another quote in which Eliezer is trying to encourage a person to remain hopeful. He expressed in hope because he did no think about how he was not going to make it, But he just knew that they were going to have to stop running at some point. He never thought about how that he was going to die. He just remained hopeful that he would survive.

" 'Don't let yourself go under,' my father said, trying to encourage him. 'You must resist. Don't lose faith in yourself."(97)

This is an example of Elizer's father showing true faith and hope. Even after starving and spending days in a freezing train ride, he continued to encourage his fellow people and show hope that things would get better soon.

" 'Father,' I said. ' Only another moment more. Soon we can lie down-in a bed. You can rest... '" (99)

This quote was the time where prisoners began to just fall asleep. Most of them were dying from lack of food and too much work. Even though that Elie did not know for sure, he tied to be hopeful and encourage his dad to keep fighting oping that there was rest and survival near.

Mother is still a young woman," my father once said. "She must be in a labor camp. And Tzipora, she is a big girl now. She too must be in a camp …"

"Here, every man has to fight for himself and not think of anyone else. Even of his father. Here, there are no fathers, no brothers, no friends. Everyone lives and dies for himself alone." 

Quotes for Theme Thesis:

"Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, for all eternity, of the desire to live.  Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God  and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never" (32)


This quote can be an example of how easily people can lose faith and hope quickly. After all that Elie experienced that first night, he felt that God no longer existed. He lost the will to live. People now days can lose faith easily because of one unfortunate event.

"I did not deny God's existence, but i doubted his absolute justice." (42)

This is another quote that shows how Elie began to change his hopefulness. In the beginning of the book, he was so strong about following and learning about God. But after the first night he already doubts the very thing that he had so much faith in. This can be applied to people nowadays because they are so easy to turn against something if it doesn't go their way.

"One day when we had stopped, a workman took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into our wagon. There was a stampede. Dozens of starving men fought each other to the death for a few men." (95)

This is an example of how losing hope can cause you to also lose your humanity. The people fighting for this piece of bread already felt that they were not going to make it. There fore, instead of being humane, the fought and only worried about their survival because the did not have faith that things would turn out better.

"He just kept repeating that it was all over for him, that he could no longer fight, he had no more strength, no more fight." (76)

"we were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had transformed everything- death, fatigue, our natural needs. We were stronger that cold and hunger. Stronger that the guns and the desire to die. Doomed and rootless, nothing but numbers, we were the only men on earth." (87)