Restless Ecstasy

Friday,
November 21, 2008

9:52 AM

Reckless:

Can't
move

Can't
sleep

Can't sit still

Ecstasy:

Used
to be a deep word

Now
just a trance drug by emo kids

State
of standing still

Latin:
ex stare

Standing
outside of yourself watching yourself

As
you think deep thoughts

Contradiction
reveals about MacBeth's character

Lady MacBeth:
Doubtful joy

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Must be rooted in
the text

Book: frenzy of
sleeplessness

Restless

-wants
to kill enemies

-killing
Banquo and Fleanse

Ecstasy

-standing
still (then)

-frenzy
(today)

Crazy

Not able to rest

In such a frenzy
that he can't sleep

Also ecstatic

Means
very happy

After
he becomes king - must feel very excited inside

But
confronted with the harsh realities - he's vulnerable

Euphoria

Overwhelming
feeling

Good
at delving and reflecting

Talks
inside a lot

Worrying

Always
complicating

Soliloquy

How do you reconcile
the two???

Go back to the irony

What
about him surprises you

Irony:
opposite of what you expect

Expected to cancel
each other out

But
something underneath that

How can sorrow be
sweet????

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Paragraph:
How does "Restless Ecstasy" describe Macbeth's character???

4-5 sentences

Text-routed

Metaphors

Analyze Macbeth's character

End with the irony

No passive voice

Precise

20 pts

Macbeth is stuck in
restless ecstasy when he becomes king.
He is ecstatic that he has achieved his dream.  However, the violence he used can be just as
easily be used against him.  Macbeth
knows this in Act 1 Scene 7, "we but teach bloody instructions, which,
being taught, return to plague th’ inventor."  Although Macbeth is ecstatic that he has
achieved his goal, he must constantly look behind his shoulder to make sure he
does not meet the same end as Duncan.

Dropped
wordage:

However he knows the prophesy states that
he holds a "barren scepter" and a "fruitless crown." does not fit in

Thus even as he
achieves his goal, he knows that his end is around the corner and he must do
everything possible to hang on to his crown.

Thus he worries that
his own end is around the corner, just as Duncan's was (quote).  The act which propelled him to the throne can
just as easily remove him from it.

No
passive voice - be percise

Me: don't always
have to come out and state what
the irony is