The Great Gatsby Pre-reading

Employment

If I had the ability to chart my life and plan exactly what would happen and be able to choose my employment I would want to be a wildlife biologist. I would want to have been in this field since graduated from university with the highest degree in wildlife biology. I would want to be hired straight out of university to work for a company or organization with goals for discovery and conservation. I hope to have been involved in many projects geared towards the study of animals and their habitat. I hope to be involved in the conservation of animals and that I can help endangered species and discover through observation what we can do to help protect them against ourselves. I would plan to be involved the Kalahari project where biologists are studying meerkats. I would plan to make new discoveries about their behaviour and learn more about how they communicate and cooperate with each other. I plan to prove that mammals have emotions and a thought process much like humans. My discoveries would help animals so that humans will stop destroying their habitat and using them for our own advantage. Specifically I would like to help save the lemurs of Madagascar against their distinction. I plan to travel the world and study animals and how they interact with each other and their environment. I plan to be an important figure and scientist in the world of biology and conservation. My dream job is a wildlife biologist that works for animal lover and with animals.

Macbeth Reflection

Opinion on the Macbeth Unit

In my opinion, Macbeth was a well developed story with an interesting plot. With that being said Macbeth was written for King James as a play in seventeenth century England. Because Macbeth was written as a play there isn’t a lot of character descriptions or development, many characters are only seen a few times so it is difficult to get a sense of where they fit into the plot. Also much of the play happens extremely fast, there isn’t much space between plot changing events and the whole thing seems rather rushed. For example, Lady Macbeth dies, an army is defeated and Macbeth dies all in a matter of a few scenes with little description of how it actually happened. We don’t know for certain whether Lady Macbeth kills herself, we don’t how the battle unfolded in detail, and we don’t know if Macbeth dies from a fatal blow to the stomach or if he was first weakened by a gash to the leg. I think that the story of Macbeth is a good one that has important themes and messages but as book study I don’t think it has enough content. I don’t believe that when Shakespeare wrote his plays he meant them to be studied. Macbeth is meant to be a performance, in the same sense if you wanted to read the story of Narnia you’d get a better understanding and vision of the story by reading the novel instead of the theatrical script. Without the descriptions found in regular novels it is difficult to envision what Shakespeare imagined. The story of Macbeth is sound but I don’t think that it is the best choice as a book study.