Billy's Online Journal

Characters: Lady Macbeth, Messenger, Macbeth

Location: Iverness. A room in Macbeths castle

Time: Unknown

Events: After reading macbeths letter lady macbeth wants her husband to become king, manipulate macbeth to kill the king, through his trust. the letter included that macbeth will be king. She plans for macbeth to kill duncan.

Characters: Duncan, Malcom, Donaldbain, Banquo, Lenox, Macduff, Rosse, Angus, Lady Macbeth

Location: Before the Castle

Time: Unknown

Events: Duncan visits macbeths castle, meets lady macbeth outside and is to be taken to macbeth. Everyone is lying to each other which builds tension.

Characters: King Duncan, Lennox, Malcom, Donalbain, Macbeth, Banqou, Rosse, Angus

Location: Forres in duncans castle.

Time: After the battle

Events: Cawdor dies repentantly, Macbeth and banqou return and gain praise from the king. King pronounces Malcom the prince, next to the throne. Macbeth is in a state of denial, trying find a way to make his bad desires right?

Characters: three witches, Macbeth, Banqou, Rosse, Angus,

Location: A heath

Time: after the battle

Events: Three witches meet with Macbeth and Banqou (the witches hid and caught them as they went past). They tell Macbeth that he will become the Thain of Cawdor and the King. They tell Banqou that his sons will be Kings. They do not believe the witches. Rosse and angus enter and the witches dissapear. Rosse tells Macbeth that his is the Thain of Cawdor. They start to believe the witches, Macbeth starts to desire to be king.

Characters: Duncan, Malcolm, Captain/Sergeant, Lenox, Rosse

Location: A camp near Forres

Time: End of first battle start of another

Events: King meets with bloody Captain, who tells them how the battle went well Macbeth killed Macdonwald. Then the norweyan lord came and attacks, just when they thought it was over.

Characters: The three witches

Location: A desert place

Time: Unknown (before the end of the battle)

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

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

Uncertainty is shown more easily in spoken conversation than text. This is because in verbal conversation you can see the person’s facial expressions and emotions and hear their tones and hesitations.

In verbal conversation you are witnessing someone’s raw thoughts from straight their head, so their uncertainty is “written across their face”. When I had my conversation with Callum for class study my uncertainty is easily shown at multiple points. “Callum: Like the DNA – Billy: Like, Like – Callum: DNA. Twisted ladders.” My hesitated repetition “Like, Like” shows I am uncertain about what I am saying and that I am still figuring out what I am saying as I say it. This is seen everyday when someone does not fully understand what they are talking about or are questioning what they are saying. They have hesitant tones of voice or hesitant repetition. Uncertainty can also be shown through somebody’s facial expressions, you can visually see when unsure. In verbal, face to face conversation, there is no delay or time to censor your emotion as there is in text. Therefore uncertainty is so easily seen in somebody’s demeanour as they can’t restrict what they are thinking; their thoughts just fly into reality.

In text conversation uncertainty can be masked by lies. When you are texting your friend you think it’s instant communication, but there is a slight delay. This delay is significant because during it, the person you’re having a conversation with will be refining their next message to exactly the right thing to send. They are looking for the words that will cause the least confusion or please the reader the most. These words may not be what they are actually thinking or doing. Take LoL as an example. It used to mean ‘laugh out loud,’ but did the person who sent it to you really laugh? People can also be manipulating their words to get a certain response from the receiver. They may make something up to make somebody feel happiness or any emotion. Lies are also used to hide uncertainty, “Gerald: Did your parents let you come to town? – Dug: Yeah.” Dug hadn’t asked his parents if he could go to town yet, so he hid his uncertainty under false words. Since Dug has time to censor his thoughts, Gerald cannot see his facial expression or hear his tones, Dug is easily able to hide his uncertainty.

Uncertainty is easily shown in verbal conversation. Since there is no time to censor thoughts, uncertainty is portrayed easily on your body and in your voice. Where as in text conversation uncertainty can be hidden through false words.