Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Journal #4

Homework Blog [due on-line before 3/2/09 11pm]:
Journal #4 “Is Lady Macbeth evil or just a very ambitious person?”

Describe what constitutes an evil person before answering this question...are really ambitious people often misunderstood as evil? Feel free to support your Journal with quotations. [no shorter than 8 sentences - this may be a future essay prompt]

8 comments:

  1. An evil person is someone who vindictive to get their way. They would be willing to lie, steal and kill to get what they want. I can consider an ambitious not an evil person. Or it depends how amitious they are. If that ambitious person IS doing something that could be considered unethical or immoral to achieve their goal, then they can be considered an evil person. I think Lady Macbeth could possibly be considered to be an evil person. All she thinks about is how she can get what she wants. She will be a very selfish character througout the book.

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  2. I do not think that Lady Macbeth is evil. She is just really ambitious. She wants her husband to be the king. She will literally do anything that she can to make sure that her husband gets the crown. She will kill to get it for him. Part of her is also really selfish though, because she has to call Macbeth some mean things to get him to do what she thinks is the path to getting him crowned. No, I do not think that she is evil.

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  3. My opinion is that macbeth is an ambitious person. What constitious a evil person is doing something that is a sin.

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  4. From what I know (I haven't read this far but I overheard details from someone reading it in my first period class), I believe that Lady Macbeth truly an evil person. To me, being ambitious is just working very hard to get something you want. Being evil however, is to ignore serious ethical barriers (such as murder or torture) in order to do or get what you want, except in a few rare cases. She ignores these barriers by kill the king, just so she can become a queen and her husband a king, which clearly doesn’t justify the murder of the good King Duncan. For the murder of Duncan to be justified, he would have needed to been a crazed tyrant, and from what I have heard he was not. Lady Macbeth is therefore not one of these special cases. Macbeth (the main character) however is a lot harder to determine whether he is truly evil or not. Though he did take a huge part in the murder, he didn’t completely appear to want to take part in this immoral act which put him either at ambitious, evil, or extremely suggestible.

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  5. i think that lady macbeth is just ambitious, but at te same time evil. Shes ambitious to be quenn and her husband king. I think she is also evil, because she will do about anything to have her husband king, Such as kill.

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  6. I have started reading the book and i think and also heard that Lady Macbeth is an evil person. But at the sametime, Lady Macbeth kan also be an ambitious person beacuse she tries her best to get what she wants. An ambitious person can be someone who wants something so bad that they work very hard to get what they want. All she wants and thinks about is getting things that she wants. Being evil is someone who does bad things , such as murder or doing a sin. At the sametime you wont know if Lady Macbeth would be evil or ambitious. She could be both of those things.

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  7. I think that Macbeth is just very ambitious. However sometime's being overally ambitious can make a person evil. Lady Macbeth just thinks about herself and how she can get what she wants. This makes ambitious people do evil things to other people. So yes, I think that Macbeth is so ambitious that it causes him to be evil.

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  8. I think that Macbeth is evil. Being ambitious makes someone evil in some ways. One, sometimes you try to get whatever you want no matter what it takes. Two, by getting what you want you might have to kill/hurt somebody. Lady Macbeth is thinking about what she wants and how to get it no matter what.

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