Persona poem (11)

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My persona poem is about my favorite character in this play. I choose Lady Macbeth because she is a very wonderful human being. p/s: I’ll just ignore the part where she becomes terrible and kill herself. Well, it is human’s nature to feel the guilt after making some mistakes right? And it shows that she is a normal human being who feels the regret after did some bad deeds

 

Lady Macbeth

Cunning, ambitious, brave, spirited

A wife of Macbeth

Who loves her husband, to be in control and power

Who hates a coward, a rival and failure

Who wants to see her husband become a king, success work and happiness of herself.

Resident of Macbeth’s heart

Lady Macbeth

the difference making the first and the second video (10)

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In the making of the first video, it is very difficult for me to pronounce the dialogue because i didn't familiar with old English language.  The second hardest thing is to say the dialogue with the right intonation because i have no clue on what i am talking about. After a few class and a few video-making session, then i know what Macbeth is all about and i started to feel a little comfortable to do it. the five weird sisters always discuss together on what,when,where and how to do each scene that we choose. this give us a clearer picture about our video.  We do have to face some difficulties, but we manage to overcome it and i like this new video-making experience.

For the second video, when i know that we need to do it in our state language, i thought that this will be way easier than to first one. But what it is totally wrong. i think it'll be easier if we sit and translate our dialogue together instead of divide our role and translate the dialogue by our self because it will be more link to each dialogue. I think i spoil the video because my voice is not loud and clear enough..huhu

but i like both of our videos because both gives me new experience in making a video.   

The five weird sisters (9)

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The five weird sisters that is really weird. We are zara, leng lui(shiauyin), fatin, nadiya and me(nik). I think this group name really suits us because our brain did function in a weird way. When we are discussing about the tasks, all of us must think about the same idea (more or less), same activities and same interpretation, but of course we express it in a different way. It’s not that our brian are so much alike.. J

We are feminist, we believe in fate, we like Lady Macbeth character, and we can work till early morning and go to morning class without any problem (I think).  We also don’t really like Macbeth attitude and most of all really we are weird in our own way. I like to be in this group because they really know he to back me up. They really know how to make me feel a little confident and make me overcome (a little bit) my nervous when it’s my turn to present our tasks. They are like my Lady Macbeth to a Macbeth (which I am the weak Macbeth, figuratively).

I’ve learned a lot this time, through this group, through the video-making process, through the class, through Macbeth play and most of all through you, miss Dzeelfa.  It really do change my perspective of how to look at something, how to look at life. And I’m glad to learned all this experiences. Hopefully I still can find u if I need to ask about something (that has to do with literature, of course. Don’t worry, insyaAllah I won’t make you feel miserable..hehe) =)

Fate (8)

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For me, fate is something that ‘the higher power or god’ has already plan for us, but we can still work hard to change it because God is nice and He only want what best for His servant. In this story, Macbeth is really believed that he is fated to be a king. Therefore, he fought very hard to achieve it. For me, his intention to get the throne is not really wrong (I didn’t say it’s right, just not really wrong.. J), because I believe that everyone wants power right? Everyone wants to be in charge of something. But his way of doing it is totally wrong.

As a Muslim, I strongly believe in Qada’ and qadar, which is closely connected to fate. In Islamic teachings, there’s a saying that “Allah tidak akan mengubah nasib sesuatu kaum itu melainkan mereka berusaha untuk mengubah nasib mereka sendiri”(surah QS. Ar-Ra'du (13):11). This shows that we can change our fate, but not in a negative way.

For me, it is my fate to be here, and I’ll try as hard as I can to make it better. I don’t really planning on to be a teacher because I know my abilities. I know my limit, I am a glossophobic person. So how can I teach students in that condition? But my mum ask me to take this course, she says that it will benefit me in many ways. Teaching is a really interesting jobs but it need lots of passion and patient. I don’t think I can handle it (but we’ll see what will happen after my teaching practice in semester 8), maybe I’ll fall in love with this field because I know this is a very noble job. 

Lastly, I found a very interesting quote about fate that makes me understand more clearly about it;

“Fate is the supposed force, principle, or power that predetermines events, as well as the inevitable events predestined by this force. Those who believe in fate, believe (whether directly or indirectly) that their stay on earth has been decided long before they became a resident of said planet. So here we are, an insignificant blurb, on a planet not bigger than a speck of dust (in the grand scheme of things), hurtling (seemingly) endlessly through space, progressing towards some fate decided by the cosmos and therefore out of our understanding. We can, however, at least try to grasp what it truly means to accept fate and then determine whether or not to believe in it.”

Daulat….(7)

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In our last discussion, one of my classmates Maal did mention about this ‘Daulat’ things. And miss Dzeelfa said that they (western kings) also have this things just like our king because ‘Raja adalah wakil Tuhan’ (I’m sorry, I don’t know how to put it in English-it might bring another meaning..huhu). It makes me think that what Daulat is actually about? Is it the bad things will happen if we harm the king? Or is it they have the power to punished the wrong-doing person?

We start talking about this when we read act 2 scene 3 where Lennox tell the earth situation to Macbeth;

The night has been unruly. Where we lay,

Our chimneys were blown down and, as they say,

Lamentings heard i' th' air, strange screams of death,

And prophesying with accents terrible

Of dire combustion and confused events

New hatched to the woeful time. The obscure bird

Clamored the livelong night. Some say the Earth

Was feverous and did shake.

We as the readers know that it happen when Macbeth is killing Duncan, but Lennox didn’t know about it.  So I’m confused, did they know about this ‘Daulat’ that they have? What are their perceptions about this? As for Malays, we really need to respect and obey our king. If we disobeyed their words, we will get curse because we are under their oath. I just can’t connect the western ruling system with our ruling system because it seems like there is so much differences in both system. But I believe that we need to respect our leader.

Weird sisters (6)

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I think the three witches in this story is really interesting. They are in the opening scene of the play (which in my opinion to show that they play an important role in this story). They are portrayed as an ugly creature and not the residence of this earth. This can be prove in this part (act 1 scene 3):

What are these

So withered and so wild in their attire,

That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' Earth,

And yet are on ’t?—Live you? Or are you aught

That man may question? You seem to understand me,

By each at once her choppy finger laying

Upon her skinny lips. You should be women,

And yet your beards forbid me to interpret

That you are so.

Other than physical appearance, I also like their sisterhood spirit. They will always be together through thick and thin. The thing that attract me the most about witches is their mantra. I really like this mantra because it has a catchy rhythm:

The weird sisters, hand in

hand,     

Posters of the sea and land,

Thus do go about, about,

Thrice to thine and thrice to mine

And thrice again, to make up nine.

Peace! The charm’s wound up.

Then it strikes me, why three? Why not other numbers? Then my roommate tells me a brief history about witches. It starts at Salem, where they first discover about witchcraft and there is three witches that being caught. They were accused to start all of the chaos that happened at that place. Since then, it has been like a custom to describe three witches together.