POWER CORRUPTS!! MACBETH

Power Corrupts is a huge theme that I believe was all caused by superstition of the witches. Everyone in the book was corrupted in someway or another some caused others to be corrupted and those others made others corrupted. It is like a huge corruption waterfall. This is a quote that is an example of Lady Macbeth being corrupted, “The raven himself hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements.” P.50 Lady Macbeth. This quote is saying that Lady Macbeth will do anything to become queen and she convinces her husband Macbeth to do the bidding as she acts all sweet and innocent like a good house wife. She got corrupted by power before she even found out about what the witches had said.

In Macbeth, Macbeth him self wasn’t the first one to be corrupted, I believe that his wife kind of triggered the corruption waterfall. When she said to Macbeth; “O, Never shall sun that morrow see!”P.52 Lady Macbeth, She is telling Macbeth to kill King Duncan so she can gain power. The quote goes on to say to keep a friendly face and trick him to make him believe he’s welcome and make him feel as comfortable as can be so he will sleep soundly.

Cynical Lady Macbeth corrupts her husband to the point where he can’t stop killing people because he becoming king wasn’t good enough for them. He keeps thinking that people are out there to threaten and plot behind his back and take away his power. When no one right away is trying to, later on when everyone starts realizing what is happening then people want to try to get rid of him.

“This is spoken like a man. Come, let’s go to the king. Our army is ready; we lack nothing except permission to leave. Macbeth is ripe to be shaken, and even the heavenly powers are arming themselves. Take whatever comfort you can: no night is so long that it doesn’t end in day.” P.207 Act 4 Scene 3 Malcolm. This quote from Malcolm is saying how he and Macduff are leaving confidently to go fight Macbeth and put the crown on the head of the right air to the throne. They knew they had to put a stop to Macbeth before he was even more corrupted and killed more people.

It turns out by the end of the book, Lady Macbeth is so corrupted that she kills her self because she can’t handle the guilt of killing so many people. Right after she killed herself, Malcom and Macduff declared war on Macbeth and secretly attacked out of the forest. Which made the witches prophecy come true when they warned him that the forest would attack him and that would be the day that he would fall. Macbeth was reflective on this when his messenger was telling him the woods were moving. Macbeth wasn’t prepared for the fight though because he was too argumentative about weather or not the woods were actually moving.


Macbeth becoming corrupt lead to his and his wife’s downfall, she was bitter and he because arrogant and they were both careless. They both became corrupted by the tiniest little bit of power. Power corrupts made the book suspenseful and tense because you didn’t know what Macbeth’s next move would be.

Sid Comes to America

My friend Siddhartha is coming from India and I have to think of things that we can do. Since South Hadley is boring I decided that we would go somewhere else, I think Rhode Island would be a suitable place to go. They have many things to do not to mention many nice beaches and towns. I think that we will go to Providence place, and then Misquamicut State Beach. I believe he will feel comfortable at the beach, he will semi feel at home. As for the mall though, I’m not sure if he will enjoy it because he isn’t used to being in those kinds of situations.

I’m going to pick Sid up from the Air port in my little BMW that I borrowed from my Grandparents. As I pull up he looks either anxious or confused. I couldn’t tell. I exclaim “Hey Sid!!”

He peers around for a second then spots me; “Leona! How are you my good friend?”

“I am fine. How was the plane ride?”

“It was OK, a little bumpy but other wise a good landing and such.”

He only had one bag with him and it was small, very small. Smaller than Paris Hiltons doggie bag. I don’t know what was in it.

I pull away from the air port and he complements on my aqua blue Z3 Convertible BMW. I love it even though I feel like I’m driving a tin can.

Sid asks “What do you have in store for me today?”

“Something a little bit more relaxing than last time.”

He let go a breath of relief, “good I don’t think I could handle”, he put his fingers up in quotes “the “mosh pit” thing again.” I laugh and keep driving. Just saying;

“You’ll see” with a goofy smile on my face.

As we arrived at Providence place he was in awe, just looking around with a curtain sparkle in his eyes. I found it entertaining, the way he was just looking around in all directions, quickly glancing and staring at curtain people and places. He was confused by the massaging Chinese people, and I had bought him a coffee and he was intrigued by it. Sid was asking questions about everything, for example; “why is everything so expensive?” and “how do they create this frosting on this doughnut?”

I just kept answering him I thought it was fun. I brought him into some clothing stores and he tried on some things. He couldn’t buy anything though and I also didn’t have money. So we just window shopped, which I also had to explain to him. When sundown started to come we went from the mall to Misquamicut State Beach so we could watch the sun set. All the way there we were talking about the mall and how different it is over there. He compared it to the woods and all the animals, but then he decided that it wasn’t really like that. I think he was just talking to talk.

When we got to the beach he was exited he had never seen the ocean before, he kept calling it a river. I would giggle each time he said it. The ocean looked so serene, there were little bugs or plants in it that made it glow; the waves weren’t that big and there weren’t that many people around. A few couples here and there but that’s all the sand was still a little warm from the sun but getting cooler, it was a nice summer evening though. Sid just starred out into the sun as we watched it go down, he then said “I couldn’t relate to any place like the;” as he put his fingers in the quotes again “”mall” but I feel like I’ve seen this before, not in a human form, but maybe as I was meditating one day or something. In a spiritual form, out of body.” He snickered; “if you get what I’m saying.”

“Sid I never get anything your saying but I understand.” I said putting my hand on his shoulder and laughing. The sun was nearly half way now and we were both quiet. A few runners with there dogs went by and Sid told me how they have dogs over in India too. But he was confused why they wore “spandex” because he doesn’t know why males and females would wear such tight clothing, why not be comfortable. I couldn’t explain that one to him, just because I wear tight clothing sometimes.

As the sun was almost behind the horizon he was saying good morning to India because he thought that that’s where the sun was going. To the other half of the world, I didn’t want to ruin his fun. On the way back to the air port he told me how the beach was like a place he goes to meditate next to the river, “it’s a little sandy patch with vines and trees all around me, that’s one of the slow parts of the river he says. It is where all the animals go to swim or drink. I enjoy their company.” He was saying with a smile on his face. He seemed very pleased about today. That made me happy I thought that he didn’t want to come to America again because of where I brought him last time but he seemed like he liked it this time.

As I was dropping him off at the air port he just said Thank You Leona and I told him no problem and that he was welcome in America at any time. He attacked me with a hug because I guess that’s what they do over there, and we said our goodbyes.

“Till next time!” I say waving.

The Only Thing with Meaning

The Only Thing with Meaning

Walking through the Big Y one day, with a runny nose and watery eyes from a cold I was getting over. Mom and I had to get tissues and such and she made me go with her. Right when I walked in I saw someone working in produce I have never seen before. His crystal blue eyes had drawn me to him, but of course I look like a sick hound dog. We kept catching each others glimpses, when I saw him talking to a kid I knew that worked in the meat department. Made me kind of exited because I could just ask him in school tomorrow about this kid because I believe we were both too timid to talk to each other. I know I get that way when I notice someone that I think is attractive, I found ever reason to go back to the produce department to see him and maybe talk to him I just couldn't find enough reasons my mom kept acting questionable.

A few days later I finally got up the courage to ask the kid that was working in the meat department about the boy I saw. Of course I asked him on MySpace because I didn't have the guts to even talk to him. So I asked Jimmy on MySpace and he told me that his name was George Bruso and he was 18 and all the basics. George happened to be there with Jimmy at the time, I didn't know that it was George responding to me the whole time till he told me it was him. I was confused but happy to talk to him. We started talking more on the phone and online.

The night I first had the courage to go up to him, I was at my grandmas house one night and we needed something at the store but there are two Big Y's and the one George doesn't work at is the one that's closest to her house. I knew George was working though so I begged her to go to the other Big Y so I could see him. I didn't really recognize him at first but then I just saw someone and I knew it was him. He was at the banana stand putting bananas in order and I walked over there and started to pretend to look at them. He glanced up and noticed it was me right away. I just smiled and blushed a lot, but he did the same. I distracted him from work for a good twenty minutes then my gram came looking for me. She just walked over and said. "So this is the reason you wanted to come to this Big Y." I started laughing out of embarrassment I think and introduced them. Grandma ended up inviting George over to play cards and to get to know him more. I didn't really want her to be the first one he meet because she is very critical when it comes to people I meet. But to my surprise she liked him a lot! As George and I were saying Good-bye he was waving and walking away from me and ended up tripping over a stand for fruit, he acted cool about it but we were both hysterically laughing.

Later when George came over he had his moms baby blue mini-van, because he had crashed his car into a tree the year before. He came over he was all nervous about meeting my grandpa trying to impress them with every little thing he would do. He made sure his car was in the right place and he kept doing all of the math I had to do in the card game for me because I'm not very good at math. He was just being a sweet heart and my grandma actually liked him. We ended up hanging out a lot more after that. He would walk to my house before and after work and we became best friends and started getting really close.

I realized that I started liking him a lot. I loved all the attention he gave me and how I realized, well thought that he was starting to like me too. So I started showing it more, being a bit more flirty. He noticed but waited because he wanted to make sure that he and I were meant to be together. We fell in love and he and I became official on January 21, 2008, and have been perfect ever since.