Twitter feelings!

I thoroughly enjoy using twitter. It is a great way to send timely push notifications to my followers. However, when creating this account I did not enjoy them forcing me to follow people right away. I will do so at my own pace thank you very much! Also it was quite difficult to find a username for my account that I liked but was not already taken by somebody else.  However, I enjoy it because it gives me access to multiple accounts at once (including my personal one). In addition, it lets me upload and tweet links, pictures, and classify my interactions and mentions with other people.  I recently began using twitter a couple months ago, and I am able to keep up to date with my interests and friends.  Because of Twitter, people around the globe are able to keep up to date with important events instantaneously.  For example, during the US election, people were constantly tweeting about the polls, rankings and their opinions.  Even media organizations such as BBC and CTV use twitter to send followers direct information on events and prizes. Because of its large audience, Twitter has also been a major contributor to company success. By simply "tweeting" a simple status update, it can improve company success immensely.  For instance, if Bobby Flay were to tweet that a certain restaurant in NYC is delicious, his 100,000 followers would see that and suddenly want to go to that restaurant because they know Bobby Flay says its good.  Also, food trucks in the Vancouver area are able to keep a constant flow of customers by tweeting their location and how long they will be there for. Finally, Twitter is useful for doing exactly what I am doing now.  Blogging.  Twitter is a micro-blogging application that basically lets people know what you are doing and how you're doing it!

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Character of Macbeth

Macbeth will absolutely be the main character in the story, seeing as the title of the play is indeed Macbeth!  From reading the first act, I am getting a sense that he is an extremely determined and skilled man who may be at a glance very sure of himself and stable.  I say this because before even meeting with the witches, Macbeth is able to lead an army of Scottish to prevail against a group of Irish invaders.

"Till he unseamed him from the nave to th' chops,

And fixed his head upon our battlements." (22-23)

So far, I am impressed by the Macbeth's accomplishments and bravery.  However, I am predicting that Macbeth will become greedy once he knows that he may become King.  I believe that he will not stay true to himself and let his obsession with power overcome his morals.

Macbeth is a true warrior on the battlefield but when it comes to the prophecy given to him by the witches, he becomes concerned and powerless.  Though already happy about being promoted to Thane of Gladis and Cawdaor, Macbeth is presented with the possibility of him becoming King of Scotland.  I believe Act 1 of the play was helpful to set the tone and setting of the story; dark, peculiar and magical.  As the play develops, I believe there will be much conflict between Macbeth's reign as King and that there will be significant changes in his character because of his new power.   Perhaps the witches will return as either antagonists or protagonists in the story. 

Here is an amusing link of someone trying to explain the play in less than 96 seconds...I do not recommend using this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5nlx2XzP-4&noredirect=1

Destiny, Fate Or A Coincidence?

Without the witches, the story would not be the same.  It is them who planted the seed in Macbeth's mind that he would be King of Scotland in the first place.  Before the confrontation with the witches, Macbeth never even dreamed that he would ever become the King.  It is for this reason that these three weird witches are now meddling with fate and destiny.  They are the influence that caused Macbeth to become obsessed with becoming King.

The question now is whether or not it is fate that brought the witches to Macbeth or if it were a mere coincidence.  If it were a coincidence, Macbeth's life may be completely different.  I know that he later fixates on becoming King.  So, what if they never spoke to him? What if no one ever planted the idea in his head? Would destiny still make him King? Would a higher power create another circumstance where the same thing would happen? It is for sure a mystery but then again I may have a clearer idea once I get to end of the play.

The million-dollar question in life is whether or not we as individuals have a pre-determined destiny or if we have the ability to make our own events in life.  I believe that we are in control of our own actions and consequences to them. On the other hand, we do not have the ability to control what others do. People may change their minds all the time, therefore affecting the outcomes of certain situations.  I believe that it is not a pre-determined plan that is forcing us to do certain things, but rather our own unique personnality traits and the pressure from our peers around us.  In Macbeth's case, it could be Macbeth's success driven personnality that drives him to become King, or the supposed fate that decides for him.

Below is an interesting analysis on the meaning of fate and how it relates to the play;

http://www.shmoop.com/macbeth/macbeth-character.html

So far, my knowledge of Macbeth is that it is a historic play written by William Shakespeare.  The play focuses on uncovering the meaning of destiny, fate and influence.  I know that the story takes place in Scotland, hundreds of years ago before modern time.  Their era does not have any electronics, machines or innovation...imagine that!?

After reading the first act and watching multiple videos on my own, I am detecting a dark and mysterious tone to the story.  This became first apparent to me since the beginning scenes take place during a storm.  I anticipate that there will be lots of magic and unexplained events in the story as a result of the presence of the witches. 

In the first act, I learned there was an encounter between three witches and Macbeth, as well as his partner Banquo.  They have just returned form a successful battle. The witches tell Macbeth that he will soon rise among his equals and become King of Scotland!  They also tell Banquo that he will not be King, but he will get Kings. "Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none" I think this means that he will have sons that will end up being Kings in later time instead of himself. 

I've had alot of help from websites and books in order to help me better understand the acts.  It's very impressive how much of a different language poetry is! Hopefully by the end of this unit I will be able to increase my abilities to decipher poetry.