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......

Wear your mask people......hahaha ( FATIN NABILA 5TH POST )

False face must hide what the false heart doth know

Nice line from Macbeth....... I like the line because the line actually portrays the real characteristic of human being... Even though it is not a positive traits that any human can have but it does shows that human being can be very cruel on certain extend..... Being fake is cruel and it is a lie because it denied the right of a person to know the truth.... Fake people are everywhere.... They can pretend to like you, however   you will never know what is behind the masks.. The mask here can actually refer to the false face that Macbeth has mentioned. The mask is used to conceal the false heart that exists in someone....... I can relate this to myself because in order to please people, we need to learn how to fake something... Yes, “fakeness” is not a great thing to do, however it is essential in today’s life..... I am a very stubborn, bossy and bad-tempered person... Does that mean that I can simply shove it and wear my crazy attitude in front of other people....some people say that you just need to please yourself and not anybody else...? Does it 100 % true? Does it really work? I believe not... In order to function well in our collective society...we need to be able to conceal something that is not good about ourselves but try to make ourselves more presentable.....  Some people just like to say out like that they can function alone without depending on anybody... For me..it is just rubbish....at some point in our life, we need people...at the very least we need people to bury us when we are dead.... (I know it is harsh, but I just type what my friend’s mum used to tell me in Terengganu dialect)= (“ Dok soh beng kate la, kite ni dok perlu orang laen...kekgi2 biler mati nok suh org gop gali kubur kite, jadi jangan sombong2”)......funny.......hahaha

Determination ( FATIN NABILA 4TH POST)

I love Lady Macbeth........I can relate her to myself in some ways..... For me; she is a woman with high determination like myself....it can be seen in my favourite dialogue:

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.

Before I was a karate do athlete, my right to learn this sport had been denied by my family......the only reason is....I am a girl and girl does not play rough sport...... However, I never gave up passion... after 7 years persuading my family to let me join karate-do... Finally, I was allowed to join... Even though I was 17 years old when I was first join the sport... My determination made me learned very fast....... My sensei (coach) was surprised with my fast progressed.... I’ve learned the movement really fast until my sensei asked me to join my first tournament after only one week training..... I’ve won silver medal for that tournament...... Because of that, my sensei asked me to join State’s Karate-do team which I end up representing Terengganu for SUKMA Melaka, 2010.......... In class, Ms. Dzeelfa once asked the class on whether anyone ever experience physical pain..... My answer to that question is.... Yes, I did...... The training there was very challenging..... Not everyone can stand it..... we need to jog for 2.5 km almost every morning and after that we trained for 5 hours a day....The training session was brutal....We need to be very strong physically and mentally in order to “survive” the training..... During the training, all of us need to be each other punching bag....We need to allow our friend to kick our face and punch our stomach.....The rational of that practice, “ just to make you use to the pain”....sound funny right?...However, it was really working.... After sometimes, every one of us, can’t feel the pain that much....we can literally laugh when someone kick or punch us.....There were only three girls in the dojo (the training place for Terengganu Karate-do athletes)......three crazy girls, I can say...... even though we are girls...we still need to fight boys in our dojo during sparring sessions...........although we lose almost of the time to the boys...we never gave up, we fought hard.....For us injuries such as blisters and tore ligament just normal....we just endure the pain out of determination and passion towards the sport.

Video vs microteaching.............

FATIN NABILA JASNI (153451)

In my opinion, creating video is the most effective way to make students actually do some research and read about certain text.......especially classic text...... In fact, it is more effective than microteaching because in order to do lesson plan for microteaching...Many of us just skip through the reading process...We just jump into summary n read it….if the text is a drama text...we just ignore the script…..because in order to teach character or theme….we can just read the reference in the internet…..however, in order to create a video...we need to do a lot of research to make sure that we get the clearer view  of the scene  that we need to act……otherwise, we will be acting a wrong scene ( I mean wrong interpretation of the scene )…..for example…..we need to read the book to choose the scenes….and other than that….we also downloaded a few version of videos of the scenes that we are interested in because we want to know  on how to pronounce certain words which sometimes  very ancient to us…….the language used in the Macbeth was very challenging to us because we never heard of such ancient words before…. We tried to pronounce using our own knowledge...Sadly we failed (it was sound like France rather than English)...so we decided to find the videos and learn from them…….thank god….we have YouTube……now we knew and even practice how to pronounce those peculiar words…...Another problem that we have faced during the discussion was about certain terms….we were afraid that they have different meaning from what we have understood….because in the last few semester… I have came across the word “file” in the Great Expectation…..I thought the file was the file (the thing we use to put paper inside)…but it was not…it was a knife….hhaha…..Thus, to avoid misinterpretation..We have decided to ask Miss Dzelfa about the words “armed head” and “crown child”…..Actually we have interpreted the “armed head” as a soldier head…however..on the second thought, it came across us that the “armed head” maybe the creature with arm and head only…..it was because the phrase appeared during the witches scene…the scene when the witches call all of the weird creature…..and our brain started to think about weird creature rather than the logic one….it is funny how our brains work….we can create a crazy thought based on the crazy context….in our case,  the witches context….First our thought was logic until we switched the logic context to the witches context which is the crazy one…..

p/s: Thank you a lot for Miss Dzelfa for the information..Otherwise we will be creating the “armed head” creature….the creature with the arm…….hahahhahahahahah

Why oh why????......

We already have two meetings so far....congratulation to us.....we, the five weird sisters do have similarity regarding to our interest which will make it super easy for us to decide anything.....I love our collaboration….As usual, our interest will be very much relating to feminism and supernatural……thus, we have decided to use or to manipulate the witches scenes….. We have planned to combine a few of witches’ scenes n Macbeth....it was started when we did our research on a few version of Macbeth witches scenes (videos in YouTube) ……it was appealing to us so we have decided to do it…..we believed that the witches scene in the Macbeth are very crucial to the plot of the story…….through the scenes we hope that we will create suspense and trigger everybody to further their reading in the story……

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The weird me.........

Have I heard about Macbeth before?.....Yes, I did....I've heard about it from my best friend in Terengganu....... She is doing Tesl in UPSI......However, I've been truly introduced to the Macbeth when Miss Dzelfa had first brought it to class during our first test.....At first, It never occur to me that there were actually two Macbeth in the text.. Macbeth and his wife Lady Macbeth……I do not know why, but I think that it was because in my mind Macbeth was always a girl/woman ( before I did the research on the text )……..Thus, when I read the different extracts that have been given to me in the class, I could not make sense of certain events in the Macbeth....- Of course I can’t make sense out of it since the events that happened in the extracts was not all about Lady Macbeth (female Macbeth).. But sometimes, it is about Macbeth (I mean the male Macbeth)…. Even though, I had the perception that there was only one Macbeth which is female Macbeth……However, as an avid reader I did realize that something not right on my perception since normally dialogues/ language used by female and male is different. No wonder, I’ve thought that Lady Macbeth’s dialogue was sometimes very rough (like a man language – Of course it was “man language” because IT WAS MACBETH’S dialogue not his wife)... Now, I’ve figured out the confusion that I have created by myself………”As a conclusion, impression of the gender towards characters does count in order to avoid brain complication“this statement I speak only for myself because I was crazy enough to make such impression…..

p/s : Do not worry Miss Dzelfa, now I know the difference…..hihihihi….and by the way I have spelled Macbeth as Mc beth before.. but I know it was wrong since the system in MPH Bookstore do not has the data about “Mc beth” but they do have about Macbeth..hahahha

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