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The part of the play that I saw was very close to the actual story,
most of the time plays and movies are not as similar as the book or written
version. I missed most of it due to personal reasons, but here is
my summary of the play, which I read in the library. Hope this is
what you were looking for.
In a thunderstorm, three witches decide to meet. Next, a captain reports
to King Duncan that Macbeth beat Macdonwald in battle. Ross adds that the
Thane of Cawdor was disloyal to Scotland during the battle. The three witches
confront Macbeth and Banquo on their way home from the battle. They predict
that Macbeth will be King of Scotland. The witches leave and Ross informs
Macbeth that he has inherited the title Thane of Cawdor (as also predicted
by the witches). Macbeth thinks of the prediction of him being king, and
wonders if he should help make it happen. To Macbeth's dismay, King Duncan
declares his eldest son, Malcolm, Prince of Cumberland (i.e. the next king).
At Inverness Castle, Macbeth's wife learns of his encounter with the witches
and decides that she'll persuade Macbeth to fulfill his destiny through
foul play. She then learns that King Duncan is coming to her castle to
stay the night, strengthening her decision to murder Duncan. Macbeth appears
and his wife tells him she'll do the foul deed herself. Duncan arrives
and Macbeth tells his wife he doesn't want to murder Duncan. She talks
him into it, adding that they'll frame Duncan's own guards with the murder.
Past midnight, Macbeth converses with Banquo, then alone, hallucinates
that a bloody dagger is in front of him. Macbeth meets his wife and tells
her he murdered Duncan. He also begins hearing voices. Macbeth forgets
to return the daggers to the king's guards, so his wife does it for him,
bloodying herself too, as Macbeth loses himself in insanity. Macbeth accidentally
admits of the murder, then withdrawals his admission. Duncan's sons, Malcolm
and Donalbain, flee to England and Ireland, fearing for their own lives.
Subsequently, Macduff and Ross discuss that all have decided that Malcolm
and Donalbain bribed the guards to kill Duncan. Consequently, Macbeth is
declared king.
At Scotland's castle (Forres), Macbeth contemplates how he fears Banquo
may give breed to children who may overthrow Macbeth. Macbeth hires men
to murder Banquo and his son, Fleance. Macbeth scares his wife by informing
her of Banquo and Fleance's looming death. The murderers successfully murder
Banquo, but Fleance escapes. At dinner, Macbeth imagines he sees Banquo's
ghost.
The three witches make a brew chanting "double, double, toil and trouble."
Macbeth approaches and asks three questions. The witches answer: 1. Beware
Macduff, 2. None of woman borne will harm Macbeth, and 3. Macbeth will
until Birnam Wood come to Dunsinane Hill.
A doctor and servant observe Macbeth's wife's sleepwalking and sleep-talking
about Duncan's death. Menteith, Angus, Caithness, and Lennox discuss the
impending battle with Macbeth and Birnam wood. An Dunsinane Castle, Macbeth
is informed that an army of 10,000 is near. At Birnam wood, Malcolm orders
his soldiers to cut the trees and use them as disguises. In the castle,
Macbeth learns that his wife has died by her own hand, then learns, to
his dismay, that Birnam wood is moving toward the castle. The army arrives
and Macbeth fights and kills young Siward. Next, Macduff and Macbeth fight.
Macduff informs Macbeth that he was ripped from his mother's womb, and
thus not born of woman. Soon after, Macduff kills Macbeth. Macduff then
crowns Malcolm the new King of Scotland.
Barber’s definitions relative to the reading:
Jihad- a religious struggle which can result in violence through the political and militaristic means of the crusade. The term, while many times associated with Islam is used in the context of any heartfelt struggle. Eg. Montana militia, Nazis, even Christians
McWorld- the rapid economic and cultural expansion throughout the world of popular culture and goods. McDonalds is international and can be found within any and every culture. It is representative of the global encompassment of American culture, popular culture.
Jihad and McWorld balance each other out. They are two opposite forces which continuously struggle against each other, and neither one of them will ever truly die out. There will always be a cause for Jihad, a new effort for radicals to be involved in, and at the same time, society is continuously changing. Even those who fight against change embrace it in their actions.
Bosnian assassins wear new Adidas apparel, Middle Eastern zealots watch satellite network television, and radical organizations listen to and play rock music in an effort to release their message.
McWorld is the theory of globalization, and Jihad is anti-globalization. Together they balance each other out.
What do Jihad and McWorld have in common?
Both are negative
Jihad focuses on destroying nationalism and sovereignty
through isolating communities, while McWorld hurts national interests
by the forging of global markets which hinder the sovereignty of nations.
McWorld’s most powerful negative factor is the greed which is the focus
of McWorld globalization.
Psalm 83
by Richard Cash, 2004
Chapter 2
1) Job still acknowledged God’s authority over everything.
2)”Skin for Skin” was Satan’s words concerning Job’s response
to the loss of his family. Satan still held to his opinion that Job was
only because of God’s blessings. Satan believed that Job was willing to
accept the loss of family and property as long as his own skin was safe.
3) Satan asks God again to test Job.
4) Verse 9 Job’s wife says, “Curse God and die.” Many people
think that believing in God in God protects them from trouble, so when
calamity comes, they question God’s goodness and justice. Wiesel
did and I have to say if it was me I probably would to I have enough trouble
keeping my cool in 5 o’clock traffic. Faith in God doesn’t guarantee personal
prosperity, and lack of faith does not guarantee troubles in this life.
Satan’s strategy is to doubt God.
Chapter 3
1) Job, in verse 3, felt that it would be better never to have
been born than to forsake God.
2) Verse 11 Job was in experiencing extreme pain. He can’t be
blamed for wishing death just a Wiesel did. Job’s grief put him at the
crossroads of his faith. So Job was driven back to his basics of faith
in God. He had two choices: 1) Curse God and give up, or 2) trust God and
trust God and draw strength from Him to continue.
3)Job was careful not to worship material possessions but to
worship God alone.
Conclusion
At the end Job did allow his desire to understand why he was
suffering overwhelm him and made him question God. Job does go on to say,
“Surely God is great, and we do not know him; the number of His years is
unsearchable” (36:26). Funny that Job would say that after what he had
been through. Remember in chapter one Job lived a blameless life. Job knew
that God has a bunch of wisdom. He knew God and His ways. Job felt privileged
that he had the opportunity to help, if just a little, to defeat Satan.
Job know it wasn’t about him he didn’t go with the motto, “Life short-get
out.” Instead he went with God’s wisdom, “Life is short-stay-in.” The rest
of the story read 42:10; 16. Maybe Wiesel doesn’t know how Job felt or
maybe he does because he is living a pretty good life now.
Elie lives a happy life in Sighet in Hungary. He has a wonderful family,
and his father, a rabbi, is held in the town with highest esteem. He finds
a role model, Moshe the Beadle. With Moshe, he discusses and learns much
about religion.
One day, all foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet, including
Moshe. The experience shocked both the foreign Jews, and the townspeople.
Life is resumed, however, with little thought thereafter.
Then, one day, as Elie is walking to the synagogue, he sees Moshe
sitting on a bench. Elie is eager to learn about his experiences and how
he escaped. Moshe tells about the horror he sees. He tells that they were
taken to a forest, where they were made to dig graves. After digging the
graves, the slaughter began. The Jews were made to go to the hole they
dug, and present their neck. The babies that were present were thrown into
the air so the machine gunners could have target practice. Somehow Moshe
escapes.
Nobody will listen to his story though. People though that he
had gone mad. So, life continues. Then, later that year German soldiers
came to Sighet. At first, they seemed to be no threat, but after about
a week, they began to set up ghettos for the Jews. One night, during a
gathering in his family’s back yard, his father is summoned to a meeting
of the council. Upon his return, he tells everyone that the next day, Jews
were to begin being transported somewhere. People spent the entire night
preparing to be taken somewhere. Day by day, group by group, Jews were
taken to the ghetto. Some days later, his family’s turn came. After being
taken to the ghetto and staying the night there, they were shoved on a
train. Some Jews had heard the rumor that they were to be taken to a concentration
camp.
They spent days on the train. There were eighty people per car.
They were so crowded that they had to take turns sitting down. By the second
day people began to be tortured by thirst. A lady that Elie and his family
knew, Madame Schachter, began to rave sporadically and uncontrollably about
a fire and a furnace that was not there. She began to irritate the people
in the car so much that they beat her fiercely until she was quiet, scaring
her children.
Then, finally, they reached the camp, in Auschwitz. After being
released from the car, the passengers immediately spotted a ditch flooded
with fire. The officers, making no point to keep the Jews from being frightened,
told them that they were to all be burned.
Then they were divided into men and women, which is were Elie
was to never see his mother and sisters again. A prisoner of the camp came
up to Elie and his father and told them that they were to pretend to be
eighteen and forty years old. An officer came soon there after, and began
to subdivide them. He asked Elie and his father their age. Desperate to
stay together, they replied, eighteen and forty. Then Elie and his father
were marched in a line toward the ditch of fire. There Elie caught a glimpse
of a sight that was heart chilling. The officers were bringing cart loads
of babies to the ditch and throwing them in the fire. Then and there, Elie
felt extreme hatred fill his heart. After reaching the fire Elie’s line
turned left into the actual concentration camp, where they were informed
that they would be workers. Elie and his father were transported to another
concentration camp, where for several weeks; they were treated quite humanely,
but soon that all changed. The officers became more violent. The officers
would sometimes have violent outbursts and beat Elie. His father was beaten
for not being able to keep in line. Violence continued, and then one day,
all the prisoners were gathered to watch the execution of several of the
prisoners. They were to be hanged. While looking on as the prisoners were
hanging, Elie wondered for the first time, “Where was God?”
Elie Wiesel, Night [part 2]
Leah Cuthriell, 2004
A few days after the Poles left, Elie catches the Kapo Idek with a young
girl. Half an hour before
work ends, roll call is given, and Elie is whipped before everyone
twenty-five times. One Sunday the
air raid sirens sound. During the attack, a man tries to procure
some soup from the cauldrons in the
middle but is killed from the bombing. A week later a youth from
Warsaw was hanged for stealing
soup. The Oberkapo of the 52nd cable unit was accused of sabotage.
He was tortured but would
not release any information. Eventually he was moved to Aushwitz.
However, his young servant
who was a child was hanged. As the spectators moved past the
body of the young boy hanged, one
man asks where is God now. Elie answers, “ He is here on the
gallows.”
On the eve of Rosh Hasanah, Elie is unable to join the other Jews in
offering praise to God. He
angerly thinks where is your greatness God in the face of all this
weakness. Elie does not fast on
Yom Kippor because he wants to be rebellious toward God. He believes
there is no longer any
reason to fast. On New Year’s SS doctors gave inspections to
the prisoners. Those who were in
poor physical condition were killed in the crematory. Elie fears
his father will be killed because his
number was taken down during the first inspection, but his father passes
the second inspection. In
the middle of January, Elie has to under go surgery on his foot.
While in the hospital, he hears the
Russian army maybe advancing. His neighbor tells him not to have
faith that he will be delivered
because Hitler promised to annihilate all the Jews before the clock
strikes 12. Elie asks him if he
regards Hitler as a prophet. The man replys I have more faith
in Hitler because he is the only one
who has kept all his promises to the Jews. Since the threat from
the Russians was real, the Nazis
evacuated the camp. Instead of staying in the hospital, Elie
and his father decide to go.
If anyone stopped moving during the journey to Gleiweitz, the Nazis
shot that person. Early in the
journey Elie witnesses Zalmun, a young Polish boy, succumb to stomach
cramps and die. Elie thinks
about giving in to death himself, but the thought of his father being
by himself prevents him from
doing so. The group was allowed to rest in a deserted village.
Elie and his father find a little refuge
in an old brick factory. While there, Rabbi Eliahou asks Elie
and his father if they have seen his son.
They reply no. After the Rabbi leaves, Elie remembers seeing
the Rabbi’s son. He realizes the boy
ran ahead of his father because he thought he father was becoming a
hindrance. Elie prays to the
God he no longer believes in for the strength to not abandoned his
father. Once at Gleiweitz, the
Jews were herded into barracks. The barracks were so crowded
that there was a stuggle to not
suffocate. The group stayed at Gleiweitz for three days before
being herded onto cattle trailers and
being shipped to Buchenwald.
While traveling to Buchenwald, the train stopped to allow the prisoners
to throw out the dead. A few
hundred dead were left in a field in Poland. One day when the
train stopped in Germany, a workman
received great satisfaction from throwing bits of bread on the wagon
and watching men fight to the
death for it. During this savage spectacle, a fifteen year old
Elie watched a boy beat his father to
death for a piece of bread. The boy was then assaulted himself
and killed for the piece of bread by
the crowd.
When the prisoners arrive at the concentration camp, Elie’s father
is near death. Elie screams at his
father to get up out of the snow. The alert sirens wail, and
Elie is lost from his dad. When he finally
finds him again, his dad is overcome with a fever. Elie stays
with his father giving him his rations of
food and water in hopes that his health will improve. Eventually
his father his killed by a blow to the
head because he was calling out for his son. Elie did not weep
over his father’s death. He said in his
weakened conscious he could have found something like free at last.
On April 5, a call was given for all the Jews to come to the assembly
place. Elie and the members of
his block did not go because they had been warned that the Germans
had decided not to let the Jews
be liquidated. A great number of Jews passed themselves off as
non-Jews, so a general assembly
took place the next day. Before the evacuation could begin, the
alert sirens sounded. At six in the
evening the first American tanks stood in the gates of Buchenwald.
Their first action as free men
was to eat until they were full. Ironically, no one thought of
revenge. Three weeks after the
liberation, Elie contracted food poison. He spent two weeks between
life and death. One dau he
gathered his strength to look in the mirror. When he did Elie
said he saw a corpse staring back at
him. He said the look in his eyes as he stared into mine has
never left me.
Jews respected for: being a people of philosophers and Moses' wisdom Jews criticized for: their rituals, keeping to themselves, circumcision, and the Sabbath (viewed as lazy)
derived from the "jewishness" of Jesus and his apostles(those who are anti-semitists are in a sense hating Jesus) The "Jesus-movement" was a totally jewish event: there were conflicts between sects of jews (compare with catholics vs. protestants in Ireland---there is a high level of extremity), Part of the jewish community became followers of Jesus, thus making them a Christian sect, while the vast majority of jews did not accept Christian claims for Jesus of Nazareth. Because Jesus himself and his prophets hurled words at their own people---the jews (e.g. brood of vipers) in order to encourage them to repent, the new christians did as Jesus and the disciples did, and hurled cruel words at the jews. When the fall of Jerusalem happened, the jewish gentiles felt that this had proven them to be right, and the jews to be wrong. This is the beginning of Christian and New testament anti-semitism Jews were given very limited rights under the rule of Augustine Two things are argued: Jews are guilty of deicide (killing God) and Judaism is the wrong way to relate to God (through law rather than faith) To counteract critique of the jews in the bible, a renewed study has shown that crucifiction was a Roman tradition, and there are accounts of the Gospels which state that the Jerusalem establishment collaborates, not the jewish people.
Dr. Harald Rohlig lecture text.
In this passage Isaiah is simply imaging a world where everyone is equal and there is no persecution among the races. Everyone will have the same status and no one will do without. Even the animals will be equal. There will be NO dominant race or species.
A solution would be a new global Paradigm, or a new way of thinking.
The new paradigm can be either holistic or ecological.
A holistic view is based on understanding how independent functioning parts work as a whole.
The ecological view is concerned with the holistic view in a addition to how is works in the environment, where it came from, etc.
This new paradigm would revolve around the idea that everything is an integrated whole, and not a collection of dissociated, independent parts.
It is important for people to shift from a shallow ecological view to a deep ecological view.
A shallow ecological view is when humans view ecology by putting themselves outside or above nature. This is thought to be a very human-centered view.
A deep ecological view is when ecology includes humans in the web of
nature.
This view is religiously based.
Along with shifting to a new context of thinking, it would be important
to adopt new values, and give up such values as competition, expansion,
domination.
The Book of Joshua picks up the narrative of Hebrew history at
the point where Deuternonmy leaves it. The book of Joshua begins
with Israel’s entrance into the Promised Land at about 1405 b.c.
Joshua did as God said…and trusted in the Lord, and successfully led the
Israelites in the conquest of Canaan, or rather, of at least sufficient
portions of it as it was made up of small kingdoms.
The book of Joshua can be divided into three parts: The conquest
of Cannan, the partition of the land, and Joshuas farewell address to Israel.
The first 4 chapters, however, include the story of the crossing of the
Jordan. Chapters 5 and 6 deal with the fall of Jericho. Leading up
to those events there was the circumcision of the people and the celebration
of the Passover, neither of which had been observed since the departure
from Sinai. The book moves on into chapters 7 and 8, which are about the
matter of Achan, and the subsequent successful conquest of the city. Next
we move on into Chapters 9 and 10. They tell of the treaty with the
Gibeonites because of their alliance with the Hebrews, and dominant control
of the central mountainous region. Also, a military expedition that
brought a big part of the southland under control is described in chapter
10 verses 28-43. And finally..in reading chapters 11 and 12…I found
that the coalition of northern Canaanite kings and the conquest of the
north country are related in 11:1-15 . Ch 12 ends with more military
exploits.
Aquinas has four main questions concerning war:
1.Whether some kind of war is lawful?
2.Whether it is lawful for clerics to fight?
3.Whether it is lawful for belligerents to lay ambushes?
4.Whether it is lawful to fight on holy days?
Aquinas starts off by giving objections, to the war concerns.
These are mostly from the Bible. Then he
replies to the objections. (In this excerpt for our knowledge
book, the 4th question is not discussed)
Article I. Whether it is always sinful to wage war?
He explains that war is ok, only if it is for a just cause. If you
are fighting to oppress evil and not
to spread it, it is just to have war.
Article II. Whether it is lawful for Clerics and Bishops to
fight?
He presents
that Clerics and Bishops can take part in war, just not by drawing there
swords up.
But rather by prayer and other ways of helping.
Article III. Whether it is lawful to lay ambushes in war?
He says that it is wrong to deceive people for any reason. But an
ambush is a just war can be
concealed. For that is a major part of war, not letting your
enemy know, what you know.
In Matthew 5, Jesus sat down on a mountainside
and began to teach the crowd about how everyone should live. He began
by teaching them the beatitudes. Basically they said that
if they lived the way they should they would be rewarded in the long run.
He also said that they were the salt and light of the earth.
Next, Jesus talked about how he was the
fulfillment
of the law. He then began to discuss topics such as murder, adultery,
divorce, and oaths. He then said that they should be more than forgiving
to others. Jesus said that if a person hit you, you should turn your
other cheek for them to hit as well. He said that we should love
and pray for our enemies.
In Chapter 6, Jesus taught that no one
should do their acts of righteousness in front of other people,
but instead one should do those things in secret. Jesus went on to
teach the people how they should pray and fast. He then told
the people that they should not live for this world, but instead store
their treasures in heaven not here on earth. Jesus also said that
they should not worry about anything.
In Matthew 7, Jesus taught that the people
should not judge anyone else, but instead they should look at their
own sins. Jesus then said that God would supply all our needs, if
we only asked him to help us. Jesus later discussed false prophets.
He said that people would show their faith through their work.
Jesus finished by saying that they should
follow his teachings. When he was finished, the crowds were amazed
because Jesus had taught with such authority.
Lao-Tsu (attributed to) from Tao te Ching (ca. 600 B.C.)
or The Tao and Its Characteristics
By Cole Hairston, 2004
Part I
30. One should not use force because it causes resistance and
loss of strength. Do not achieve results through violence but the
natural way. Violence damages others and ones true self. The
wise leader achieves victories, but does not glory or boast in them.
He does not boast in them because boasting is not the natural way.
31. Weapons of war are instruments of fear, and are not used by people that follow the Tao. A warrior king leans to his right to hear his generals’ advice, but the peaceful king leans to his left to hear his counselor of peace. If he looks to his left it is a time of peace, if he looks to his right it is a time or sorrow. Only use weapons when there is no other choice because peace and stillness are dear to their hearts. To rejoice in victory is to rejoice in killing and when people are killed there should be mourning.
Part II
46. When the way of nature is observed all things serve
their function. When it is not observed horses are bred for battle
and war instead of the plough and drawing carts. Desire and want
will cause discontent, but the one that knows sufficiency ha what he requires
easier.
58. When the ruler is fair, the people do not scheme, but when the ruler is unjust the people grow angry. The knowledgeable realizes that where happiness exists there is also misery and strife, and where honesty is there is also occasion for dishonesty. The knowledgeable knows that no one can foretell the future.
59. When one acts with self-restraint and not self-advancement, it is possible to lead and care for others. This happens by acting virtuously and leaving nothing to be done. A virtuous and firm foundation is a good sign of a good leader. The one whose virtue has no limit is the best leader. Like bark protects the tree, rulers roots should be deep by his meditative practices.
60. When ruling a country one must act with care. When actions are approached and carried out in a natural way, the power of evil is reduced. The ruler and ruled will not contrive to harm each other because the virtue of one refreshes the other.
61. A great country remains receptive and still, as does a rich and fertile land. The gentle overcomes the strong with stillness and receptiveness. By giving way to another country, the country may conquer another. A fertile nation may require a greater population to use its resources fully. A country without such resources should rely on each other. By acting in unity, each may achieve the unity it requires.
75. When taxes are too heavy, the people are hungry. When the government interferes too much, the people become rebellious. When the government demands too much of the people’s lives, death is taken lightly. When the people are starving in the land, life is of little value.
80. A small country may have many machines, boats, carriages, armour and weapons that they will not use, for they are serious when regarding death. The people do not travel far from home, make knots in ropes, but do much writing. Their food is plain and good and their clothing is simple. Their homes are safe and they are happy this way. The people of the villages grow old and die in peace.
Conclusion
The Tao beliefs reflect and refer to nature and the natural way
of life. They focus on a nonviolent solution to problems and
peace. They believe that rulers should be fair and considerate of
the ones being ruled. They lives are simple and they use only what
is needed.
Mrs. Brooks had the pleasure of being the last speaker [for LAS 102]
in Huntingdon College history. Brooks is the Montgomery County District
Attorney. The District Attorney is the chief prosecutor of criminal cases
in Montgomery County. Being an attorney she knows about justice.
One definition of Justice, as far as law is concerned is an unethical act.
Her first story was about a Vietnamese man who killed his 3 children because
his wife left him. Due to facts surrounding his citizenship his case in
now in the court of appeals. She then started to define justice,
but said it is much easier to define what not justice is. It is obvious
when there is an injustice, such as the president of the United States,
lying under oath. Martin Luther King Jr. once said “injustice anywhere,
is a threat to justice everywhere.” This means that even though you
may not be the person doing the injustice, if you don’t stop its, that
is just as bad.