TRABAJO METRO STGO INTRO. ING.

The International School La Serena                                                2018[pic 1]

Language Arts Department                                                        12th Grades

Miss Carolina Barquín

Miss Mónica Zepeda

Written Cumulative mark/ Independent Work

Objective: Respond to a Shakespearean quote, considering class analysis and personal views.

Evaluation:

• Content (Personal respond and reference to class analysis) 20
• Language 10
• Composition 5
• Format 5
• Total Score 40 points

Read the following quotes. Choose one and write a 100 word personal response to it, referring to plot elements and a character directly involved in the selected quote. Your work must be sent in an attached Word file to the corresponding teacher’s mail, before Friday, July 20 at 12:00 pm. (cbarquin@tisls.cl / mzepeda@tisls.cl)

“…We still have judgement here, that we but teach

Bloody instruction, which, being taught, return

To plague th’ inventor. This even-handed justice

Commends th’ ingredience of our poisoned chalice

To our own lips. He is here in double trust:

…

…I have no spur

To prick the sides of my intent, but only

Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself

And falls on the other—”

Macbeth, Act I, scene 7, page 365, lines 8-28

Macbeth as all Shakeperean tragic heroe, has a tragic flaw, in his case: Ambition. In the quote above, he talks about the internal conflict he has, which is if killing the king of Scotland or not. After making reference to the good job that the king is making, he said ‘’Bloody instructions (…) to the plague inventor’’; with this he demonstrate how afraid he is of all the bad things that can come back to ‘’haunt’’ him if he kills the king. At the end, he recognizes that the only reason for killing the king was, as we know, his tragic flaw: Vaulting ambition.

Randa Sukni Zeran

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