King Duncan is visiting Macbeth's castle. Macbeth has to kill him but he begins to have doubts. If it could be all finished and done with when it’s done then it may as well be done quickly. If only the repercussions of the murder could be controlled. If only all the danger could end with Duncan’s death, if only we could escape the consequences of our actions here on earth. The trouble was that we have choice: we havefreedom of choice. But if we choose violent options they come back to plague us. Also, the King trusted him completely. Macbeth was his cousin and his subject and his host.
giovedì 3 ottobre 2019
BLOODY INSTRUCTIONS
King Duncan is visiting Macbeth's castle. Macbeth has to kill him but he begins to have doubts. If it could be all finished and done with when it’s done then it may as well be done quickly. If only the repercussions of the murder could be controlled. If only all the danger could end with Duncan’s death, if only we could escape the consequences of our actions here on earth. The trouble was that we have choice: we havefreedom of choice. But if we choose violent options they come back to plague us. Also, the King trusted him completely. Macbeth was his cousin and his subject and his host.
giovedì 26 settembre 2019
HAMLET
PLOT
Hamlet is a young prince in Denmark who was supposed to become king when his father died. Instead, his uncle Claudius took the throne and married Hamlet's mother. Hamlet meets a ghost of his dead father, who tells him that he was poisoned by Claudius and demands that Hamlet kills Claudius in revenge. Hamlet has to kill Claudius. He gets into an argument with his mother. Someone moves behind a curtain and Hamlet, thinking it is Claudius, stabs him. It turns out that he has killed Polonius, a royal advisor and Ophelia's father. Ophelia after learning that Hamlet has killed her father, drowns herself. Hamlet reappears at Ophelia's funeral and gets into a fight with her brother Laertes who challenges Hamlet to a sword fight. To get Hamlet killed, Claudius gets Laertes to fight with a sword that has poison on the blade, and brings some poisoned wine in case this does not work. The sword fight begins. During the sword fight they hurt each other with the poisoned sword and die. Meanwhile his mother drinks the poisoned wine by mistake and dies.
In this soliloquy Hamlet thinks about life and death, the state of being versus the state of not being. He talks about all the things that annoy him about life, and says that the only action the can take against these things is to end his life. But he can't do that because the after death is unknown and it could be worse than real life, that's why he is scared.
Hamlet is a young prince in Denmark who was supposed to become king when his father died. Instead, his uncle Claudius took the throne and married Hamlet's mother. Hamlet meets a ghost of his dead father, who tells him that he was poisoned by Claudius and demands that Hamlet kills Claudius in revenge. Hamlet has to kill Claudius. He gets into an argument with his mother. Someone moves behind a curtain and Hamlet, thinking it is Claudius, stabs him. It turns out that he has killed Polonius, a royal advisor and Ophelia's father. Ophelia after learning that Hamlet has killed her father, drowns herself. Hamlet reappears at Ophelia's funeral and gets into a fight with her brother Laertes who challenges Hamlet to a sword fight. To get Hamlet killed, Claudius gets Laertes to fight with a sword that has poison on the blade, and brings some poisoned wine in case this does not work. The sword fight begins. During the sword fight they hurt each other with the poisoned sword and die. Meanwhile his mother drinks the poisoned wine by mistake and dies. 
In this soliloquy Hamlet thinks about life and death, the state of being versus the state of not being. He talks about all the things that annoy him about life, and says that the only action the can take against these things is to end his life. But he can't do that because the after death is unknown and it could be worse than real life, that's why he is scared.
venerdì 22 marzo 2019
MIDDLE AGES
476 A.D: The fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Middle Ages
-622: Beginning of Islam & inventions
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-700, the Anglo-Saxon.
https://michelaverde.blogspot.com/2019/02/beowulf.html
-800: Education for everyone, thanks to Charlemagne
-1096: The Crusades
-1066, the Norman Conquest by William the Conqueror
https://michelaverde.blogspot.com/2019/03/from-origins-to-middle-ages.html
-1216: First universities in Europe & inventions
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| UNIVERSITIES |
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| WINDMILLS |
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| COMPASS |
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| SPINNING WHEEL |
- 1350: The plague / Black Death
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- 1436: New invention, the printing press
- 1492: Columbus discovers America
- 1500: A new era began, the REINASSANCE
mercoledì 20 marzo 2019
FROM THE ORIGINS TO THE MIDDLE AGES.
WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.
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| FEUDAL SYSTEM |
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| CHIVALRY |
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| FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE |
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| HASTINGS CASTLE |
lunedì 11 febbraio 2019
BEOWULF
The epic poem Beowulf talks about a young warrior: Beowulf. He comes to the aid of the king of the Danes, Hrothgar, whose kingdom is being terrorized by a monster who is called Grendel. Beowulf uses all his strength and bravery to slay Grendel and also his mother. Beowulf kills him and his fame spreads, so later he becomes the king of Geatland and rules for fifty years. When a dragon begins to pose a threat to his land, Beowulf and his servant Wiglaf try to kill him. They succeed in slaying the dragon, but Beowulf dies during the process.
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