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Short answer questions

(3 mark questions)

Is Macbeth manipulated into killing Duncan? If so, explain why.

Yes, Macbeth was manipulated into killing Duncan by the witches and Lady Macbeth. The witches manipulate him by putting these thoughts in his head that he was going to become king, and he started fantasizing about being the leader and having all these powers. Lady Macbeth, his own wife, manipulated him also by making him feel like he wasn’t masculine and using her femininity to convince him that he wants this. Since he feels like he isn’t manly enough, he doesn’t see himself as a strong warrior anymore. All this manipulating made him think that this was the right thing to do, and that in the end they would be happy.

Explain at least 3 examples of why you think Lady Macbeth is crazy.

Lady Macbeth is proven crazy by the things she says, and the actions she makes. She is constantly manipulating Macbeth and making him feel like he is worthless. They are married, which means they are supposed to be there for each other and help each other when there is conflict. Rather than helping him out, she tries to convince him to do wrong by putting him down. Ever since she heard about the possibility of Macbeth becoming king, she all of a sudden had to make this fantasy come true and she decided the easiest way was to get rid of the king by killing him. Lady Macbeth is a selfish human being and tricks her husband, Macbeth, into murdering the king. She convinces herself and Macbeth that they have done the right thing so that they can live in peace now that they have become the great leaders. If Lady Macbeth were truly to live in peace she would realize to live love over power, but being as she’s so power-hungry she forgets all about the ones she loves and what her plan will do to them. Lady Macbeth is careless and unkind.

What was the monster effect on Victor? Was it positive or negative?

I believe that the monster had a positive effect on Victor because even though the monster put him through a whole bunch of miserable events, and made him lose the ones he loved dearly; he still grew and learned from the experience. It made him realize things in life that he never would have taken into consideration. Life is about living, and the monster truly made Victor live. The monster took him away from reality and drove him crazy, but the lessons that the monster taught Victor Frankenstein were special. The monster taught Victor how to love, and how to feel all sorts of emotions which made Victor grow as a person. You learn from your experiences.

Why was Victor so determined to bring the dead back to life?

Victor believed wholeheartedly that he could bring the dead back to life, I think that he was so determined because it made him feel as if he were God. He played around with nature, trying to recreate something as powerful as life which made him feel like he were taking on the role of God. Victor didn’t think that he had any true friends, so his relief from this loneliness was to bring a creature back to life. The only love he felt in his life was towards his partner Elizabeth, and he felt that he would feel just as strong of feelings if he were to be able to create a new form of life. To him, it was very special and he was expecting something so incredible to happen that would bring him joy and fill in the empty spaces. He had so much hope in his creation that he just knew he could bring the dead back to life.



(5 mark question)

Poetry. Choose one of the poems provided and thoroughly analyze it.

For a Stone Girl at Sanchi

Gary Snyder


half asleep on the cold grass
night rain flicking the maples
under a black bowl upside-down
on a flat land
on a wobbling speck
smaller than stars,
space,
the size of a seed,
hollow as bird skulls.
light flies across it
--never is seen.

a big rock weatherd funny,
old tree trunks turnd stone,
split rocks and find clams.
all that time
loving;
two flesh persons changing,
clung to, doorframes
notions, spear-hafts
in a rubble of years.
touching,
this dream pops. it was real:
and it lasted forever.



Where The Sidewalk Ends

Shel Silverstein



There is a place where the sidewalk ends

And before the street begins,

And there the grass grows soft and white,

And there the sun burns crimson bright,

And there the moon-bird rests from his flight

To cool in the peppermint wind.



Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black

And the dark street winds and bends.

Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow

We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,

And watch where the chalk-white arrows go

To the place where the sidewalk ends.



Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,

And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,

For the children, they mark, and the children, they know

The place where the sidewalk ends.



Explain how an author or poet’s upbringing can affect their work.

An author or poet's upbringing can affect their work because there is nothing easier to write about then personal experiences, therefore a lot of their writing will most likely be about things that they have been through such as family problems or other personal happenings. The author may change the story line so that it's not exactly the way it happened in their life, but it makes sense to write about things you know. You can't just make up feelings that you've never felt, it would be challenging. For example, Sylvia Plath wrote about things such a suicide and she was a suicidal human being. It made her poetry come naturally to her because she was writing in her point of view.

Frankenstein.

Who is the real monster in the novel Frankenstein?

In the novel Frankenstein I believe that the real monster would be Victor because even though he is the creator of Frankenstein who is, in the story, the monster; Victor shows more evil characteristics as if he were a monster. In this story Victor is portrayed as selfish and irresponsible. He holds back from revealing all the destruction that his creation has caused. By looking at Victor and his creation from a physical point of view, you would instantly think that his creation was the monster judging by the way he looks. He is this unseen animal who has dead body parts as his body. He isn’t thought of as a human because he simply looks unnatural and different. Victor, being as he’s normal, people see him as the human being. I think that they have the wrong idea, on the inside is where we see that Victor is the monster. His creation has a heart, and feelings. The creation shows Victor respect; meanwhile Victor just tries to destroy him. Victor should act like a father figure to his creation by teaching him morals, help him adjust to society; but instead he is unkind which upsets the creation.

Who are the Tragic Hero’s in Macbeth and Frankenstein? Why are they the Tragic Hero’s?

The tragic hero in Macbeth is clearly Macbeth, being as he is the one who was manipulated into killing Duncan so that he could become king. He had the option to ignore the witches and to his wife, or to be happy with the way things are. Macbeth just wasn’t satisfied enough with where he was in his life that he tried to improve it. He was told that everything was going to work out and they would be happy in the end, but instead all the guilt caught up with him and he ended up hating his life and dying. This is what a tragic hero is; the main character commits actions which eventually leads the to their defeat.

The tragic hero in Frankenstein would be Victor; he is the one who isolated him from reality just to create this monster. He took all of these dead body parts, worked hard, became obsessed with his creation and in the end he was defeated. Victor was doomed from the start; he created this unknown thing that could have went very well or tragically bad. Victor is the protagonist of this story, and he is the one who brought his death upon himself by creating this monster and letting it drive him crazy.



Essay Questions



Frankenstein.

In detail, describe why the monster was killing and how he was feeling. Giving examples and refer to the text.

In my opinion the major emotion that the monster was showing for the beginning and near the end was blind fury toward Victor. This is shown in two different parts of the novel because near the beginning of the book when Frankenstein’s monster is first made, Victor abandons his creation to wonder the world alone. This infuriated the monster because he was created with the appearance of a monster so that’s how people would treat him. The creation blamed Victor completely because he made the creation hideous and the abandoned him to fend for himself. The monster also had to learn about living by himself because when he was created he didn’t even know how to survive. He had to rely on his survival instinct to learn how to live. The only reason he knew to eat was because he felt pain in his stomach and figured out that when he ate the pain went away. This emotion is also shown in chapter 20 when Victor scraps the plans to make a female monster at the sight of his first creation. This causes the blind fury to return to the monster and he proceeds with his killing due to the fury he feels toward Victor.

As well as blind fury, the monster feels love and compassion toward Victor even with all that his creator put him through. This is shown when they meet each other at the glacier in chapter 10. If the monster had shown blind fury toward Victor there he could have easily killed his creator as he was much smarter and more powerful than Victor. The monster also shows love for Victor in the continuation at the end of the book when he mourns over his creators death and feels regret for being an instrument of evil and destruction as opposed to feeling happy at the death of his torturer.


Macbeth.

Give a full and well detailed character sketch of when Macbeth on Lady Macbeth using examples from the text.

Macbeth is a very hard man. He was became this by going to war. He lived in the medieval era, and definitely played the part of a sword-swinging barbarian. He was a proud Scotsman and fought valiantly and brashly, cutting his way to the leader of the enemy during the war and killed him. Many people now idolized him as the hero of Scotland after this feat, but it had changed him. It made him start questioning the world and why it worked the way it did. He further changed when he came across the three weird sisters on his way home from the war. When he heard the sisters vision of his future, “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of Glamis! All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor! All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!" (act 1, scene 3), his desire to have control overwhelmed him, transforming him from a hard man to a cruel and terrible man. When his dream finally was achieved, it did not give him the satisfaction he so craved. It left him with a sense of emptiness that he knew he had caused. All Macbeth wanted was control, and to get that control, he sacrificed everything; his wife, "A cry of women within. What is that noise? ... The queen, my lord, is dead." (act 5, scene 5), his friends, shown in act 3, scene 1, when he pays murderers to kill his friend and ally, Banquo, and his own sanity.