Category: Writing

Characters: Lady Macbeth, Macbeth

Time: Late at night

Location: Macbeth’s castle

Characters: Macbeth, Banquo, Fleance

Location: Macbeths castle

Time: Almost midnight

Events: Banquo and Fleance talk about how the night is going. Macbeth enters and starts to talk to Banquo. Banquo says he dreamed of the 3 witches the night before. Banquo leaves and Macbeth talks to himself about the imaginary knife hanging in-front of him.

Characters: Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Banquo, Lennox, Macduff, Ross, Angus, Lady Macbeth

Location: Inverness, Macbeth’s castle

Time: Unknown, Before Macbeth’s castle

Events: Duncan and Banquo enter Macbeth’s castle and discuss how pleasant it is. Lady Macbeth approaches and Duncan thanks her for allowing their visit. Duncan asks where Macbeth is because he raced of ahead of them as they rode towards Inverness.

Quote:    “conduct me to mine host: we love him highly”

 

 

One metaphor that Shakespeare uses in Macbeth is “the Raven himself is hoarse”. Shakespeare is trying to say that even the signs of death

Characters: Lady Macbeth, messenger, Macbeth

Location: Inverness, Macbeth’s castle.

Time: Unknown

Events: Lady Macbeth reads a letter from Macbeth detailing his encounter with the 3 Witches and how they claim he will be King. Lady Macbeth fears for his lack of courage to be king and she wishes for the evilness to help him fulfill the prophecy.  Macbeth arrives home and informs Lady Macbeth that King Duncan is visiting the next day.

Quote: “Of dire cruelty! make thick my blood”

Characters: Duncan, Malcolm, Macbeth, Donalbain, Lennox, Banquo, Angus, Ross

Location: The Castle of Forres

Time: Unknown, sometime after the Macbeth and Banquo met the witches at the heath

Events: King Duncan and His sons wait for Macbeth and Banquo to arrive. King Duncan congratulates the both of them on the battle.

Quotes:

 

Characters: The 3 witches, Macbeth, Banquo, Angus, Rosse

Location: A heath

Time: Unknown, after the battle

Events:

Characters: King Duncan, Malcolm, Donalbain, Lennox, Ross, bleeding sergeant, angus

Location: A camp near the Castle of Forres

Time: Unknown, sometime after the battle

Events: A bleeding sergeant retells the first half of the battle to the King and Malcolm. The sergeant is then taken off to see the surgeons to heal his wounds. The Thane of Ross enters, and continues telling the story of the battle that has just taken place. King Duncan plans on the killing of the traitor The thane of Cawdor.

Quote: “What he hath lost, Macbeth has won”

 

Act 1 Scene 1 Summary

Characters : The three witches

Location : A desert place

Time: Unknown ( before the end of the battle)

Events: The Witches plan to meet again after the battle is over. They plan to meet Macbeth on the heath

Quote: “fair is foul and foul is fair” – paradox

Hypothesis

That Spoken language is more formal and grammatically correct that text language.  In our conversation this is true.

 

Evidence

Spoken text

Laugh                               lol

Yeah the boys                  YTB

What are you doing?       Wyd

In text language formality and grammar tends to be non existent. You wouldn’t say Wyd when talking to someone in person, adults would think you were crazy. You would ask the person what are you doing, but if you’re texting someone it’s much faster and easier to skip the words and just abbreviate. In person someone might be offended by the informality of Wyd however in a text conversation they wouldn’t because the other person understands how painful it can be typing out a massive message. 

Another part of text which takes away formality is the loss of punctuation. Most people aren’t going to bother taking the time to add commas, full stops, capital letters or apostrophes to a text that there sending to a friend.  In spoken language there is no physical form of punctuation, however there a verbal techniques used to show it. Such as a pause in Spoken language is a comma in written.