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Macbeth gives a soliloquy right before he kills King Duncan, Shakespeare has used personification to give extra meaning to the dagger. Using the information from the other scenes we know that Macbeth is battling the moral issue about killing Duncan, the pressure about being a man from his wife and his given fate from the witches. All this stress is causing Macbeth to go a little insane and is now hallucinating a dagger to give him guidance. When he first acknowledges the dagger he is questioning if it’s actually there “Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight? or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?” calling the dagger a “fatal vision” gives a new level of danger to the scene. In Macbeth’s soliloquy, he refers to the dagger as “thee” as you would say to a living thing, but by Shakespeare doing this, he was giving the dagger a purpose. I think the dagger symbolises the point of no return, he has to fully commit to the plan to reach his goal, if he doesn’t he will most likely be killed by his actions.

The scene starts with Macbeth performing a silique, stating that King Duncan does not deserve to be killed for his own gain. Lady Macbeth joins the scene and Macbeth shares his thoughts with her and she angrily says “Art thou afeard to be the same in thine own act and valour as thou art in desire?” calling him out for being a coward, saying he doesn’t have the balls to get what he wants and in the scenes before she said this would happen. The reason that Lady Macbeth is so upset is that she wouldn’t hesitate to do whatever it takes for power, but she is restricted by her gender. Lady Macbeth gives an extreme example of her commitment to a promise “I would, while it was smiling in my face, have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums, and dash’d the brains out, had I sworn as you have done to this.” she then goes on telling Macbeth what he’s going to do to assassinate Duncan while he sleeps.

King Duncan, Malcolm, Banquo and some others enter Macbeth’s castle are greeted by lady Macbeth. She says “Your majesty loads our house: for those of old, and the late dignities heap’d up to them, we rest your hermits.” basically welcoming her guests into her home. As we learnt last scene, lady Macbeth would go to great lengths to make sure Macbeth is king, making her queen and thus fulfilling the prophecy. So as lady Macbeth is welcoming her guests into her home we know that she is conjuring up a plan to assassinate the king and so creating dramatic irony.

“Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires” Macbeth is asking God to look away because he wants to be king and that is treason.

In the scene, three witches tell Macbeth that he is the thane of Glamis, he will be the thane of Cawdor and the king Scotland. Later in the scene, Rosse and Angus give him the title ‘thane of Cawdor’ so Macbeth believes that the witches are telling the truth. Macbeth is now torn with the idea that he will be king because in order for him to be king the king has to die and even thinking about that is treason. After contemplating the prophecy he says “If chance will have me king, why, Chance may crown me, Without my stir.” this is saying that if the prophecy is true he will become king without doing anything. Although, subconsciously he will either do less or more things to make sure the prophecy comes true.

The first scene is set in a storm but back in 1700, there was no technology, amusing Shakespeare to use other resources to make a sound. Everything was done by hand so there was limitations on what could be done and how detailed they could make the graphics. In the first scene, they used cannonballs to create the effect of thunder and lighting. Now in this day and age, they can use sound effect and detailed graphics to create a better effect for the viewers to see. As technology has progressed so has graphics and sound effects changed from Shakespeare time.

Text messaging has more in common with speech than formal written language.

Introduction

2 hopefully better intro Throughout history written language has been used for preserving information over distance and time. Recently communicating with people through text is more related to spoken language than formal writing. In texting, people use speaking terms like slang, sound effects, using facial expressions and shorting words.

Slang

Slang is typically used in conversations between friends, this translates to texting. In texting slang or informal language is used to convey emotion more clearly than formal language. Spoken slang is influenced by the people around you, and texting is derived from speaking so slang changes with the time. If someone wanted to say that something was really gross, it would be “that’s so rank”

Emojis

When texting you can’t see the person you’re talking to, so it’s hard to judge the tone of the message. Because of the lack of visual information people use emojis to represent facial expressions and or to make a message more heart-felt or interesting. if you received a text from your mum and it featured a lot of ” ?” emojis, you can obviously tell she’s not very happy with you. Another way to use emojis is like “?‍♀️??????❤️ Love you little lady .. have a good weekend ???” which some of these have no specific or hidden meaning, it just makes it more fun to read. Emojis help the reader direct the tone of the message, it doesn’t always have to represent the exact expression the sender is showing.

Sound effects

Another spoken feature is sound effects, they are used to convey emotion in the conversation. When speaking an acceptable response could be just to make a sound, like ” aww, ooh, grr, pfft, ugh, eww” and many others.

Brevity

To speed up texting and speaking we shorten words. This is so information can be passed faster

Conclusion

When we speak we use backchanneling as confirmation to let the speaker know that they’re listening. In my transcript Daisy is trying to explain her opinion about christianity and without thinking hayley uses “mmm”

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Ruby: I did a thing in year 9 about Christianity, you know! you know! *laughing* Myhehe hehe  my powerpoint, I’m so proud of that powerpoint/

Daisy: I did Islam, Is-Islamic? 

Ruby: You saw/ 

Daisy: I saw it. 

Ruby: my power point

Daisy: Ok, what do you think about Christiananity?

Hayley: Uuhum it really pisses me off.

Daisy: Why?

Hayley: Ahh cause it’s ridiculous.

Daisy: Wa-what’s so.. like wrong with Christianaity?

Hayley: I feel like you’re interviewing me/

Ruby: Yeah

Hayley: do you want to say some stuff as well?

Daisy: Um ok. I kind of think it’s really corrupt 

Hayley: mm

Daisy: I feel like *exhale*

Hayley: Oo! Do you know what really grinds my gears?

Ruby: *laughs*

Daisy: *laughs* What?

Hayley: When christian people try to say that um, how like.. How do we know it’s not real? But like how do they know it is? Like what is/

Daisy: Like yeah I don’t know how they know that 

Ruby: I think that they/ 

Hayley: Like it could go either way

Ruby: if they want to be Christian it’s fine but just keep it to themselves, cause I feel like if they’re really extreme they like to push their opinions onto other people.

Daisy: Oh yeah that’s really true

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Hayley: Or like when you go to a friends house and you have to sit at the table with the hands, that’s like 

Ruby: yeah 

Hayley: you-you dont have to that

Daisy: yeah, i know what you mean, its like, its like if uh you went to someone’s house and they were Muslim and they made you put on a um hijab/

Hayley: no, that would be stupid/

Daisy: is that what its called?

Hayley: like 

Daisy: so like its the same thing like, i’m not… that religion so i dont see why you have to do it…. Also! Ummm i can kinda see why someone would.. Go into Christianity? Like if they just want someone to believe in,

Ruby: yeah.. Especially if you’re, a little lost in life?  

Daisy: Yeah, if you wanna find yourself i can kinda see that/

Ruby: but like, the basis of it is pretty cute, sorry its just the/ 

Daisy: yea but then people get pretty extreme with it like

Ruby: yea like

Ruby: Emily gets so triggered at evolution

Daisy: Why?

Ruby: She does noot think it’s real

Daisy: Whats does she think’s real?

Hayley: See that annoys me

Daisy: That Jesus came and zapped people down *Laughing/ Inaudible noises*

Daisy: She also hates-

Ruby: -It’s actually God

Hayley: Sorry God *Laughs*

Daisy: Yeah, um, I’m also not too sure about- … I feel like Mary had sex with ummm whats his name? Joseph and had a child, but then she didn’t wanna tell anyone

Ruby: She’s the virgin Mary

Daisy: Yeah she didn’t wanna tell anyone 

Hayley: Yeahh

Daisy: She’s like, I want my virginity back

Hayley: No no no, didn’t um what’s his name

Daisy: God

Hayley: Zap the pregnancy, You just.. you get it and-

Daisy: Boom

Hayley: Boom

Ruby: Well thats in another religions as well, like the Buddhist one, the like elephant god made someone pregnant

Daisy: Thats right

Ruby: And they gave birth to the-

Hayley: I did Buddha- Buddhis blahur Buddhism in year 9

Daisy: Yeah I dunno, I feel like most religions… I like the religion where its like reincarnation

Ruby: Yeah..

Daisy: It’s so cute, I like that- Im not sure if I like fully like believe it, but I think it would be a good thing..

Hayley: I like that, cos like if I was gonna be religious Thats-

Daisy: Thats what I’d be, cos it’s so peaceful

Hayley: Do we have to go now?

Daisy: Whats the time?

Hayley: I feel like we could have a conversation like this for ages

V1: Yeah?

V2: Oh fanks for answerin’ geezer know what a mean?

V3: Gimme dat! Where ya been fool? Making us rinse out our credit leavin’ you messages and dat

V2: Mr doors is well on the war path with you bruv yeah

V1: Coz of the bag and that

V2: What bag? coz you missed the lesson you cheat

V3: Gimme that. The bag weren’t the problem teggsy never mentioned it, he bottled it. Aye are you coming to mine later to play computah?

V1: Nah man i’m at home now i’ve got business i’ve got to run

V3: What business?

V1: Business that minds its own. I’m out