Journal of Macbeth

Act IV

Scene One

Today I was so confused when I saw those witches, were their predictions right? Will I be safe? Every man was woman born, so no one can kill me. I will live till I die of old age. But those apparitions, they told me to beware of Macduff, but yet he was woman born, he can't kill me. Or can he? No, he can't. Oh I will surprise the castle of Macduff, seize upon Fife. That's what I shall do, they will see that no one can harm me.

Scene Two

Macduff wasn't at the castle, but where was he? The murderers killed his wife and son, but not him, but he has no where to come back home to. His whole castle is a wreck, no one left alive. He will have to stay where he is, so he can't come back to see me. I will be safe, no matter what, even if he does come back, like the witches said, no one of woman born can kill me.

Scene Three

Ha, Malcolm is a fool. Macduff is not an ally, he can't be trusted. There is no way Macduff is fit to be the king of Scotland, only I am. And now, yes, Macduff now knows his family is dead, but what is this? He's going to bring an army for revenge to kill me. Is he stupid? He can't kill me, no one can! I will return the favor with my own army and I shall be the last one standing.

Act V

Scene One

My lady is not well, sleepwalking? But why would that be? She never used to sleepwalk. No, she's speaking of the murders of Lady Macduff and Banquo! Why should she betray me like that and speak to the doctor and gentlewoman about me? She did nothing, how is there blood on her hands? Oh, she had nothing to do with it, it was all my fault on those murders. The only blood on her hands is from the murder of Duncan. What has happened to my lady?

Scene Two

So the English army is near, but I have my own army of Scotland. We will fight and I will win. I have my trustful army to watch my back. But do mine eyes beseech thee, what is this? The Scotland army, my army, is joining forces with the English. Why? What have I done to lose my own army? I am the King! They should be on my side! What am I to do now?

Scene Three

No one can kill me, so no worries to my people. We will be the winners of the fight. I shall have my armor and the witches' prediction to keep me alive. The doctor will cure my lady while I'm fighting the good fight, then when I return she will be well and everything will be well, just like they used to be. I will have my crown and power still and every person that could have took that away from me will be dead.

Scene Four

Disguise? Making their men holding trees, as to act like the forest. Ha, my people will not fall for that. We will be able to see them from a mile away, so we will then be ready for them. Hiding behind trees, how cowardly! At least my men stand behind their weapons and not plants!

Scene Five

My lady is dead, jumped and killed herself. Now, the woods are advancing. The witches said I could not die until the Birnam Wood moved to Dunsinane. I will die today, but at least I will die fighting. I'm sick of the sun and then I'll be with my lady. It's just all so fast, death is fast. The witches were right, but who shall kill me? Who is not woman born?

Scene Six

The English and Scotland army are here, I'm waiting for my death. I shall wait for them to come in and advance towards me. Then I will fight and kill as many as I can, just awaiting my death.

Scene Seven

I have killed Lord Siward's son, that's a start of the killing. I will kill all that will stand in my way of my death, I will find who will be the one to kill me. If I kill them, they were not the one to kill me.

Scene Eight

Macduff is searching for me, he will soon be here to see the man who killed his family.

Scene Nine

Malcolm and Siward have emerged my castle, will I fight with them as well? Is one of them the man to kill me?

Scene Ten

Macduff and I fought, he is the one to kill me. Beware Macduff, the apparitions told me, and they were right. My death will not be mourned, but at least I'll be away from all this trouble.

Question #1

Why do you think someone would murder people after gaining the power that they wanted?

Serial Killers

Ted Bundy

The most frightening of serial killers: a handsome, educated psychopathic law student who stalked and murdered dozens of young college women who looked very much like a young woman who broke off her relationship with him.Bundy was a very adept and glib con artist who faked a broken arm in a sling to convince young women to help him carry his textbooks to his car. Once there, he battered them with a baseball bat and carried them off for ghoulish rituals.

The Zodiac
The notorious and very bizarre serial killer who called himself The Zodiac remains one of the world's great unsolved cases. In Oct., 1966, a girl was viciously murdered in Riverside, California when she permitted a man to help start the car that he had intentionally disabled when she was in her school library.This homicide began a ghoulish series of murders that panicked the people of the San Francisco area. For years the Zodiac taunted the police with weird ciphers, phone calls, insulting and cryptic messages.Even though police investigated over 2,500 potential suspects, the case was never solved. There were a few suspects that stood out, but the forensic technology of the times was not advanced enough to nail any one of them conclusively.

Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper was the most famous serial killer of all time. Brutally murdering prostitutes in London's notorious Whitechapel district, he caused a panic in 1888.Why does this long-ago killer who murdered a few prostitutes merit the attention he gets? Because Jack the Ripper represents the classic whodunit. Not only is the case an enduring unsolved mystery that professional and amateur sleuths have tried to solve for over a hundred years, but the story has a terrifying, almost supernatural quality to it. He comes from out of the fog, kills violently and quickly and disappears without a trace. Then for no apparent reason, he satisfies his blood lust with ever-increasing ferocity, culminating in the near destruction of his final victim, and then vanishes from the scene forever. The perfect ingredients for the perennial thriller.

Albert Fish

This gentle-looking, benevolent grandfather cleverly lured children to their death, then devised recipes to eat them. This cannibal model for Hannibal Lecter is a study in criminal psychology and a true enigma. His wife thought him to be a wonderful husband and his children believed him to be a model father. What inner torments caused him to drive many spikes into his pelvis and tell people that he looked forward to his execution?