Woman....Born or made to be such a b****?

 Gan Shiau Yin (154568) - 7th Post

Before I continue, I would like to say sorry for the "B" word....But I couldn't think of a word that would make it sound "right"....Today I had a female friend (A) who had some problem with another of her female friend (B)....They started fighting because B started using not very good language to talk to her, and A got angry and reply with the same attitude....and they had a really really big big fight about it.....

This A's problem started to make me think about woman and some of their B-ness attitude.

Then, I remembered about Queen Ravenna from "Snow White and the Huntsman".

After that I started thinking if there was a reason that Lady Macbeth was sooooooo evil (others opinion but not mine) in the play. I believe that every human are born with a pure heart, but along the way of growing up, something must have happen that made them turn evil.

For example, Queen Ravenna had a really bad experience when she was young. Her family was killed when she was young, and her previous husband treated her like trash....so as a result, she values her beauty because it is also a source of her magic...but even if she is evil to her subjects, she still values her brother.

This makes me wonder if there was a history behind Lady Macbeth's past that made her the way she is.

It also leads me to wonder about the B-ness attitude....I wonder about the different purpose that woman would use it for....For example, I think some might use it as a defense for their fragile heart,
others might use it to show their power or to express their anger....

Personally, I love it when a woman shows a B-ness attitude in life because it shows that they are confident with themselves and they are true to themselves. This is an attitude that I as slowly accepting into my life because of some emotional pain that was inflicted on me. I learned that I cannot please everyone and that some people are just flat out weird (and not in a good way). They might just not like you for no particular reason. Therefore, I learn to not always care too much about what people might say about me. Because three out of three times that I met someone I had a problem with, I learned from others that it was not because by me. A big majority of everyone else had the same problem with their attitude. So I learn to not always second guess myself.

But my friend's, A, cause me to rethink about the B-ness attitude that I am slowly accepting into my life. It reminded me when I was at the receiving end of such an attitude.

I was made to accept the B-ness attitude because of what I had experience....But I wonder if Lady Macbeth whom I adore is a born B or is she made into one?

Bottom line, I believe that she is made into one, because at the end of the play, she felt guilty about all the bad things that she had done. If she was a born B, then she would definitely not feel any hint of remorse nor guilt. But that's just my thought on the matter.

Persona poem ( FATIN NABILA 11TH POST )

I dedicate this poem to my favourite character in the Macbeth, Lady Macbeth.

My lady,

Determine, intelligent, cunning and manipulative,

The real Thane of Glamis,

Who loves power, wealth and strong will,

Who hates the small heart of her husband, the guilt that haunts her and the baby that was never in her womb,

The resident of her dark mind,

Lady Macbeth .

Ambitious ( FATIN NABILA 1OTH POST )

Lady Macbeth is very ambitious woman.....Ambitious, is hardly the traits that is used to describe a woman in those days...... She is willing to do anything to achieve her ambition... Since, she is a woman; she needs a man to fulfil her dream... Thus, her husband , Macbeth the man who gave her, his name... the man who makes her a person....who gave her identity.......will be the one who will fulfil all of her dream.....The line below is the prove of her ambitiousness :

The raven himself is hoarse

That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan

Under my battlements. Come, you spirits

That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,

And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full

Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood.

Stop up the access and passage to remorse,

That no compunctious visitings of nature

Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between

The effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts,

And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers,

Wherever in your sightless substances

You wait on nature’s mischief. Come, thick night,

And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,

That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,

Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark

To cry “Hold, hold!”- LADY MACBETH

Base on the lines, we know that she is willing to shut down her humanity part in order to achieve her ambition....

The spirit of Weird sisters ( FATIN NABILA 9TH POST )

 Despite their bad appearance and attitude... In my opinion, the Weird sisters’ also have their very own great value..... They hold on tightly to their friendship between each other and also willing to stand behind one another against everything.....

FIRST WITCH      :   A sailor’s wife had chestnuts in her lap,

      And munched, and munched, and munched. “Give me,”

               quoth I.

     “Aroint thee, witch!” the rump-fed runnion cries.

     Her husband’s to Aleppo gone, master o' th' Tiger;

     But in a sieve I’ll thither sail,

    And like a rat without a tail,

    I’ll do, I’ll do, and I’ll do.

SECOND WITCH  :I’ll give thee a wind.

FIRST WITCH      : Thou 'rt kind.

THIRD WITCH     :And I another.FIRST WITCH

I myself have all the other,

And the very ports they blow,

All the quarters that they know

I' th' shipman’s card.

I’ll drain him dry as hay.

Sleep shall neither night nor day

Hang upon his penthouse lid.

He shall live a man forbid.

Weary sev'nnights nine times nine

Shall he dwindle, peak and pine. Though his bark cannot be lost,

Yet it shall be tempest-tossed.Look what I have.Although I can’t make

his ship disappear, I can still make his journey miserable. Look what I have here.

SECOND WITCH :Show me, show me.

FIRST WITCH      :Here I have a pilot’s thumb,

  Wrecked as homeward he did come.

They defend their sisters no matter what happen........ For me, the quality in them makes them very strong............. I believe that, in order to be strong and produce quality work.... Each of a group member needs to be able to work together peacefully..... For example, our very own 5 weird sisters....sincerely, I love them.....We are able to work well together...In our group, we never split the work (weekly assignments)....we just do everything together....meaning that, everybody is involved in each of the process...... Thus, every one of us was able to present any part in our presentation slides.... But, of course we need to split the part during presentation........ Since, we have quite good feedbacks about our presentation on the materials........It’s actually a prove that when we have strong relationship in our case “ sistership” we can do great in everything...... As for 5 weird sisters... we still call each other sister which stand for weird sisters.........

p/s :  maybe because of our name ,  WE HAVE POSSESS THE REAL WEIRD SISTERS SPIRIT.....hihihihihihihi......

The power of woman. ( FATIN NABILA 8TH POST )

Behind a great empire there is always a strong woman who makes it happen...... One of a trait that can make woman a great influence of the rise and fall of certain empire is a skill to manipulate......Even though women are not strong physically but they have very strong heart which is a source of their actions....For example, Lady Macbeth are able to persuade her husband to kill Duncan although her husband has a very strong view of not killing Duncan.......  The act of persuasion can be seen in below lines :

MACBETH                            :Prithee, peace:

I dare do all that may become a man;

Who dares do more is none.

LADY MACBETH                : What beast was ’t, then,

 That made you break this enterprise to me?

 When you durst do it, then you were a man;

And to be more than what you were, you would

Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place

Did then adhere, and yet you would make both.

They have made themselves, and that their fitness now

Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know

How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me.

I would, while it was smiling in my face,

Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums

And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you

Have done to this.

Rational vs Coward ( FATIN NABILA 7TH POST)

MACBETH                   :    We will proceed no further in this business.

 He hath honored me of late, and I have bought

 Golden opinions from all sorts of people,

 Which would be worn now in their newest gloss,

 Not cast aside so soon.

LADY MACBETH           : Was the hope drunk

 Wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since?

 And wakes it now, to look so green and pale

 At what it did so freely? From this time

 Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard

 To be the same in thine own act and valor

 As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that

 Which thou esteem’st the ornament of life,

 And live a coward in thine own esteem,

 Letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would, ”

 Like the poor cat i' th' adage?

MACBETH                    :  Prithee, peace:

   I dare do all that may become a man;

   Who dares do more is none.

MACBETH                     : Please, stop! I dare to do only what is proper for a man to do. He who

    dares to do more is not a man at all.

LADY MACBETH             : What beast was ’t, then,

    That made you break this enterprise to me?

    When you durst do it, then you were a man;

    And to be more than what you were, you would

    Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place

    Did then adhere, and yet you would make both.

    They have made themselves, and that their fitness now

    Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know

    How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me.

    I would, while it was smiling in my face,

    Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums

    And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you

    Have done to this.

Why Macbeth hesitate before killing Duncan? And only kill him after being provoked by his wife? Is he a rational person of just being coward? I don’t think that being coward is the main reason of his hesitation towards the killing.... it is because he is a very strong and brave person who can go through war with success... In my opinion, he is just a noble guy ....... I believe that he really appreciates the good deed that  Duncan has done to him.... and Duncan also expresses his love to Macbeth:

Duncan: Give me your hand : Conduct me to mine host : We love him highly, And shall continue our graces towards him. By your leave hostess.

The Lady of regret.. ( FATIN NABILA 6TH POST)

Some people said that Lady Macbeth is a woman without a heart.....I am disagree with that statement since it is proven that Lady Macbeth has guilt in her.... I can tell that she really feels guilty and regret of the killing she had involved in.......It is proved in the lines below:

GENTLEWOMAN               : Why, it stood by her. She has light by her continually. 'Tis her command.

DOCTOR                           : You see her eyes are open.

GENTLEWOMAN               : Ay, but their sense is shut.

DOCTOR                           : What is it she does now? Look, how she rubs her hands.

GENTLEWOMAN               : It is an accustomed action with her to seem thus washing her hands.

      I have known her continue in this a quarter of an hour.

LADY MACBETH               : Yet here’s a spot.

DOCTOR                           : Hark! She speaks. I will set down what comes from her, to satisfy my     

      remembrance the more strongly.

LADY MACBETH               : Out, damned spot! Out, I say!—One, two. Why, then, ’tis time to do ’t.

      Hell is murky!—Fie, my lord, fie! A soldier, and afeard? What need  

      we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?—

      Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood

      in him.

DOCTOR                           : Do you mark that?

LADY MACBETH               : The thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now?—What, will these

       hands ne'er be clean?—No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that. You

      mar all with this starting.

In the novel, she appears as a very strong woman, however behind a strong person... I don’t think anybody can deal with taking anyone life without being tainted with sense of guilt..... The guilt ill haunt them forever......