Thankful for....

I know for this blog we are supposed to pick one classmate to be thankful for. However, I don't think picking just one of them would be fair or is right since I'm thankful for more than one. The first person I'm thankful for is Cole. I didn't know him at the beginning of the year but now he is a pretty good friend of mine. Now he gets to put up with hearing all my comments during class and even listening to my stories. He also helps me out a lot during class. I'm also thankful for Matt because he also helps me out in class and entertains me with his random outbursts and just his personality. He makes class a little more enjoyable especially when he is helping me harass Cole. Another person I'm thankful for is Liam. We've been friends since freshman year so I was glad when I found out he was in my class. I'm not going to list why I'm thankful for him because he will just make fun of me for it later. Finally I'm thankful for Ciara and having her in class to help me go on rants about the southside with Mr. McCarthy.

"And then he is dead"

Throughout the play it seemed like Macbeth's actions were all going to work together and let him reach his ultimate goal. However it was all a waste of time and his life. If Macbeth and Lady Macbeth didn't go completely out of their way to kill every person who stood in their way of the crown they wouldn't have ended up dead. They could have gone on with their lives happy with the status they had and let the higher titles come naturally if they still believed what the witches said. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth do seem like very impatient people so maybe this wouldn't have worked. With all this aside I still don't think everything that happened was worth it in the end. In general I don't think anything is really worth killing a person. If anything killing someone makes you less appropriate for the title or job or whatever it is you're killing people for. And if its something similar to what happened to the Macbeths then its not worth it at all to put yourself through the emotional and physical toll that comes with your actions, especially if was only for a short period of time.

Lady Macbeth's Soliloquy

"Fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty!"

For most people, if they aren't mental or insane, it takes a lot for them to murder someone. They have to not only deal with the actual trouble they can get into if they are caught, but they also have to deal with the emotional distraught and constant worrying of their actions surfacing. This goes a long with what Lady Macbeth says in her soliloquy. She explains in her old-English way that someone needs to be completely full of evil and cruelty to complete or even consider completing such an act. She knows her husband will be unable to commit such a terrible crime because he doesn't have the ability to be so cruel. However, she believes if she is able to posses enough cruelty for they both of them she can carry out what needs to be done. This kind of relates back to the blog we did a couple weeks ago about greed. How people will do almost anything to get the gold and the gold in this case is the crown. Lady Macbeth is willing to possibly ruin her reputation if caught so her husband can have a chance at royalty, the crown and the riches. 

Greed

Greed is probably the biggest problem in our world. Back to the oldest records of life and civilization we have, people have always wanted to be the best and have the most, especially money. In the Canterbury Tales story, The Pardoners Tale, it shows how much corruption greed can cause, and that was only on a small scale. Now just imagine how much corruption and how many problems this one thing can cause around the world. On a daily basis, people are stealing, or finding ways to get more money. Everyone wants to be richer and everyone wants to be for their own reasons. Some people want money for power, others to be able to have more material things to show their wealth and some just like money. This feeling, emotion, overwhelming sensation or whatever you want to use to describe it can make people do some pretty desperate things. Greed might just be the root of all evil because greed isn't always about money. It could be about other things like people getting even or wanting revenge. However, it is normally related to money which does cause most of the problems within out government and more commonly lives. The worst part of this though is that there's really no way to fix this problem. Its always going to be around because no one knows how to stop it. Everyone is always going to want more. Its how its always been and more than likely how it will always be.

Truth

Our lives are full of hidden secrets. In order to learn the truth about some of these secrets, or even the truth about out lives we have to experience events or have our close relatives and friends tell us about them. We grow up with a certain way of thinking depending on what we're exposed to at a young age. I don't remember which teacher it was, but one of my teachers always brought up the point that if you were trapped in a box with no contact to the outside world and you were told everyday that the sky was purple that when you went out into the actual world you would truly believe the sky was purple no matter what people said. That would work until enough people said it and then seeing it every day you opinion on it would change. This reflects the way Grendel feels after hearing the Shaper tell his stories the Hrothgar's men. Grendel has gone his entire life living on the outskirts of the real world, not knowing what is actually going on or why he was forced to live the way he does. After listening to the Shaper he finally understands the big picture. Then after talking to the dragon he develops an even new way of thinking and a repulsive attitude. I believe he responds this way to all of these new truths about his life because he is so overwhelmed with all of the new truths he is discovering about his own life. He just doesn't know what to believe or trust anymore.

Modern day Beowulf

I've been thinking of who most resembles Beowulf today and I cannot think of one real person or one real group of people who resemble him. However when I think of Beowulf I think of this courageous hero who goes out of his way to show his bravery and protect and serve people he barely or doesn't even know. This makes me think of super heroes. I think of them because they possess many of the qualities that Beowulf also possesses. They all have the bravery to put their life on the line to put and end to evil. Whether this evil is someone such as Grendel, a dragon, the Joker or Bane, there is always an evil that needs to be stopped or shut down. 126 Both Beowulf and super heroes put themselves in danger to save others. However the differences between the two is most of the super heroes are fighting for a deeper meaning than just showing that they are a hero or to prove that they are this brave warrior. Instead they fight to actually help people. They have a more deeper reasoning for their fighting. Super heroes also have fancy little costumes and specialized weapons to help them battle while Beowulf battles with his own hands with out the help of weapons. Even with the few differences they have, and even if super heroes aren't necessarily real, they are the closest representation of a modern day Beowulf.

Me

Hi, my name is Lizzie or at least that's what I preferred to be called. My real and full name is Elizabeth Kathleen Cecilia Czubernat. I've never had a blog before so I'm not really sure what to put in here so I guess I'll just talk about some of the things about me. I play softball, both for the school and travel ball. I play almost every position but my favorite to play are first and short stop. I used to play volleyball, gymnastics, and kickboxing. I still do kickboxing every now and then when I feel like going into the gym. I live on the South-side of the city in a little tiny neighborhood called Mount Greenwood. I have a small family. I have a younger brother who is a sophomore and a younger sister who is in fifth grade. I have two dogs. One is a husky who is 8 months old and his name is Kujo. The other is a shepard-collie-lab mix and her name is Nala. I also have like 8 fish who all had names at some point but i don't remember them. My favorite food is definitely cheese fries. I could eat them everyday. Oh, and i also fit the typical white girl stereotype of being obsessed with Starbucks. I also love my iced coffee from Dunkin Donuts. Oh and I can't forget that I love my best friend Nate Cronin. I'm currently skyping with him and everyone should be jealous. (He told me to say that). But anyways I'm going to bed now so night everyone.