Macbeth Anticipation Guide

Macbeth Anticipation Guide

Directions: This is an individual assignment. Read the following statements. Write if you agree or disagree.  Write two sentences AND a personal experience to support your thoughts about each statement. There are no right or wrong answers! Post your answers as a post on your own website/blog and title it Macbeth Anticipation Guide.

1. Behind every great man is a great woman (every great man is supported, guided, helped and even pushed by a great woman). I agree, because I believe that every great man is always supported, guided, helped, and pushed by their mothers, as they always help their children. If not, then the get all those necessities from other female family members, such as aunties, grandmas, and sisters as well. My experience with this was how my friend has always been very courteous and is always very polite with whoever he talks with. Assuming he’s been under good parenting, he’s persuaded to be a gentleman and have good manners with everyone he talks with.
2. Witches, demons, and evil spirits actually exist. I agree. But only because my religion taught me how evil spirits, or demons are the ones who persuade us to do bad things. Whenever we sin, the demons usually are the ones who are involved with it. My personal experience was with my friends, and how they peer pressured me into lying to my parents about something, and I agreed to do it to get what I want. It was selfish, and I realized that it was a horrible thing to do, so I told myself that I would never do something like that again.
3. Sometimes it is necessary to do something wrong to get what you want. I agree. Sometimes it’s the only choice you feel you can make. There’s situations where you’re given two options, one would be the good and one would be the bad. We choose the bad choice anyway, to get what we want. I was watching an episode of Hawaii Five-0, and this character, named Steve McGarrett, was in the middle of either stealing $10 million to save his friend, or to find another way to save him, which would’ve been more risky, since he didn’t have much time. He chose to just steal the $10 million, but he finds out that the money didn’t even matter.
4. What goes around comes around (karma). I kind of disagree, because something similar might happen coincidentally, but it wouldn’t be as crazy as if your car gets a lot of damage everyday because you wreck someone else’s car by accident. It just seems a little impossible for something worse to happen similarly the next day or in a few days. I can’t think of an experience with this, but a scenario related to this is if you steal something and someone ends up stealing from you, it’s most likely just because someone may have liked what you had or they’ve got something against you.
5. Human beings are easily tempted by things they want, even if it’s wrong. I agree. Because there’s many things that we are all influenced by, sometimes it isn’t good at all. Us humans like to think that whatever we do isn’t too bad, but in reality, it’s very harmful. I’ve had an experience with how people think it’s a good idea to drink and smoke. They might think it’s harmless, but smoking alone messes with your body. I watch this youtube channel, where many of them smokes, but I don’t mind it, because it’s their bodies, not mine.
6. If someone feels that the ruler/s of his/her country is destroying the country, that person should try to overthrow the ruler/s. I disagree in a way, because they shouldn’t just go ahead and be able to go up to the person and go “hey I don’t like the way you do things, I’m gonna take your place.” or something like that. We could protest and petition, but we can’t be too straightforward. I’ve had something like this in during Physics class, where we all voted if we wanted a quiz today and have a test next week, or a practice today and take a test next class, since we didn’t like how she wanted our schedule to be on that day.
7. There are circumstances or events that justify murdering someone. I disagree. This is because even if someone did something horrible to you, they shouldn’t deserve being murdered. Unless they’ve killed many people, then they should have a proper death sentence. I had another experience with Hawaii Five-0 on this. A criminal was going out of control, shooting everyone that was in her way. So the only way that could’ve stopped her was to kill her.
8. Success is worth any price you have to pay. I disagree. With the price that you pay for success, it won’t always last forever. It isn’t worth it to have to pay a certain amount or a certain way to make it up just for success. I myself didn’t have an experience with this, but a scenario would be if an amateur businessman was willing to partner up with another business, and to give most of his profits to that company, but only to find out that they’re making you go bankrupt and you lose all of what you have. You then just end up unsuccessful.
9. Kings are appointed by God, and they rule as His representatives on Earth. If this is about literal people on Earth, I agree because even though some kings or rulers may have made mistakes, they’re still a representative of God, because we all have a little part of God in us. The only representatives of God is us ourselves, because even though we may make mistakes we’re all made by him, since he is God the Father, as well as The Son and the Holy Spirit. I haven’t had an experience with this, but I know that saints are good examples of God and his sacrifices.
10. Your astrological forecast (your horoscope) is a good indicator of how your day will go. I disagree. This is because when you read horoscopes, you often notice that sometimes it’s very inaccurate, because us humans are pretty different from each other, but we’re all accustomed to some of the same things, such as how all of us love sleep. I’ve experienced this before, while I was reading my horoscope and how it always talks about how I’m “associated with satan,” while that’s not true.
11. Traitors should be executed. I disagree in a way, because like how I said in number 7, if someone did something bad to you, they should pay the price that you did, but not in the way where you have to do it yourself. I haven’t experienced this myself, but a scenario for it is if someone became a traitor to you, you should just forgive them, and just tell them not to do it again.