JOURNAL TOPIC: [today's tunes: "Tomorrow Never Knows" by the Beatles/performed by Phil Collins; "All My Tomorrows" by Frank Sinatra; "Tomorrow" from the musical "Annie"]
Explain how the following soliloquy from Macbeth manages to capture the essential tone(s) of the play-- and your own experience of this last semester of your formal education.
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.
AGENDA:
1. Journal
2. Macbeth Act V
POST:
Describe what you believe to be the main theme/s of Macbeth, and support your ideas with text from the play. (title: GETTING TO THE POINT OF MACBETH; first sentences: "It seems like every great work of literature has at least one main idea that readers take away. In Macbeth, the main idea has to do with ...")
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