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The conclusion for the text “Macbeth” written by William Shakespeare makes for a satisfactory ending. This is because the main protagonist Macbeth, also the ‘bad guy’, is defeated; a ‘good guy’ then takes his place as the king of Scotland; and Lady Macbeth, Macbeth’s evil wife, dies. This ending is satisfying as it leaves the reader feeling fulfilled in their morals.

At the end of the stage play Macbeth, the current king of Scotland, is being attacked by Malcolm and the English army. Malcolm is the right heir to the throne of Scotland before Macbeth

The English language is broken. It is a mix and matched language pieced together with randomly selected parts of its ancestors. This is so much so that we get rules which contradict each other; words which sound or look the same as others but have completely different meanings; laws which work, only some of the time; and the list goes on.

Think of the word chuffed. Chuffed means delighted, pleased and satisfied, but it also means the complete opposite: annoyed, displeased and disgruntled. It carries two meanings behind it, how illogical is that! Imagine trying to learn a new language and finding out that a word means one thing but also the complete opposite of itself. It would be impossible to fathom. Imagine painting a piece of art and your mum says she’s so chuffed with it. You would expect that to mean that she loved it right? But what if she was just being super savage and hated it.

“I before e except after c.”  We have been taught this lie by the most trusted citizens of our society for generations. But sadly, our beloved teachers have been proved wrong. Results from a study done by UberFacts show that in the English language there are 923 words which break the I before e rule, and only 44 words that actually follow the rule. This means that that only 4.77% of the words related to the i before e rule actually follow it. This therefore entails that the English language is 95.23% broken.

Contractions make no sense. Think of the statement “Don’t you dare!” What you are really saying is “Do not you dare” Or “why cant you help me?” You are saying “why can not you help me” These statements have zero common sense and just do not work. I reckon if we brought Shakespeare back from the dead he would beat us up on the spot.

Another confusing, broken thing about the English language is the fact that words such as cough, though and through don’t rhyme even though they are spelled almost exactly the same. Whereas pony and Bologna words spelled utterly different, do rhyme. Imagine again how difficult it would be learning a new language. You would assume that words spelled the same, would be spoken the same! Or what about words like data, data; either, either; route, route which have different ways of saying them. Why not just have one way of saying them to save confusion?

This leads me on to how, since the English language is spoken in so many different countries, you get multiple different versions of the language. How difficult can that be for communication? I remember when we went to America for a holiday and we went to order some food, none of the Americans could understand my dad. Even though he was speaking the same language as them, they couldn’t understand him because of the different ways of saying things.

This is why i believe English is by far the most broken language in the world but, sadly, it is too late to do anything about this as it is also the most widely spoken language in the world. Which means there would be too many people opposed to the changes.

Exam Question: Describe an important conflict in the written text. Explain how the conflict helped you to understand an important message.

Conflict – ralph and jack.

message of this conflict: the conflict between the two characters ralph and jack displays the message that power can change in an instant and will change depending on the interests of the people (the people being ruled)

points: the beginning of the book when ralph is chosen to be chief over jack. When the conflict gets so intense that jack decides to make his own tribe. When everybody has left ralph and jack becomes the chief, hunting ralph.

At the beginning of the book we are introduced to the characters Ralph and piggy who are stumbling through a forest, after being in a plane crash. They reach a beach on the edge of the forest and find a conch shell. Ralph plays the shell calling all of the lost boys from around the island to one place. They then have a meeting and vote Ralph to be their chief. Jack disputes this believing he should be chief as he was the leader of the boys choir at school. “I ought to be chief, because I’m chapter chorister and and head boy.” Jack says this arrogantly because he is used to being in charge and getting his way.  “…the freckles on jacks face disappeared under a blush of mortification.” The feud between begins by this disagreement of who should be chief. This beginning conflict shows how power, unless taken by force is placed in the peoples best interests. In this case the majority’s best interest was to have Ralph as the chief. This can be related to the real world, where politicians are voted in by the community. It doesn’t matter whether one is better than another as the point of view of the majority is the only thing which matters.

Jack and Ralph’s move further apart

Above the river is an industrial bridge. To the sides of said bridge were strong barriers holding in the traffic. Behind the bridge was a towering factory. Upon the factory are long, cylindrical exhausts. These exhausts bellowing smog to high above. Around the factory are tall battle-worthy walls, which look as though they are penetrable. To the beginning of the bridge is a barrier, blocking the entry and exit to the monster.

Two truths are told,
As happy prologues to the swelling act
Of the imperial theme.–I thank you, gentlemen.

Aside

this supernatural soliciting

Cannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill,
Why hath it given me earnest of success,
Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor:
If good, why do I yield to that suggestion
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
Against the use of nature? Present fears
Are less than horrible imaginings:
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.

In his play ‘Macbeth’ Shakespeare uses language features to show in-depth display of Macbeth’s confused/unsure state of mind. “This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill, why hath it given me earnest of success, commencing in a truth?” Shakespeare uses questions to convey Macbeth’s unsure thoughts. He is wondering how the witches could be speaking truth when they are evil. The is wondering if he will become king because the witches have told the . “I am the thane of Cawdor: if good, why do I yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs.” Shakespeare is explaining through this sentence structure that Macbeth is confused about why he relishes the thought of killing King Duncan. He is wondering how if he is supposed to be the righteous Thane of Cawdor that he is capable of liking the suggestion of Duncan’s death. Shakespeare uses the idiom “Doth unfix my hair,” or “makes my hair stand on end,” in new English, to show that Macbeth is frightened by the thought of killing Duncan. Shakespeare uses the metaphor “… and make my seated heart knock at my ribs,” to show that the thought of killing Duncan is going against all of what Macbeth believes in.

Characters: Malcom, Old siward, Rosse, thanes and soldiers macduff

Location: Within the castle

Time:

Events: the battle is won, young siward stabbed in front, macduff turns up with macbeths head. malcome is king, the end!

Quote: “Hail, King of Scotland

 

Characters: Macbeth, Macduff

Location: another part of the field

Time:

Events: Macbeth and Macduff fight, macbeth thinks he cant die because macduff is born of a woman, but macduff was c sectioned so he can kill him. Macduff kills macbeth.

Characters: Macbeth, young siward, macduff, malcom, old siward

Location: The same. Another part of the plain

Time:

Events: Macbeth and young siward fight and young siward is killed

quote: “Thou wast born of woman: – but swords i smile at, brandished by man thats’s of a woman born”

Bring me no more reports; let them fly all:
Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,
I cannot taint with fear. What’s the boy Malcolm?
Was he not born of woman? The spirits that know
All mortal consequences have pronounced me thus:
‘Fear not, Macbeth; no man that’s born of woman
Shall e’er have power upon thee.’ Then fly,
false thanes,
And mingle with the English epicures:
The mind I sway by and the heart I bear
Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.