Saturday, February 19, 2011

Learning Log 2

Act 1, Scene 1, the Three Witches is a play which introduces the three witches to the audience as they prepare to meet Macbeth. This play maybe short, but after I saw how my classmates played the scene, the Three Witches, my opinion changed. To be able to play the scene well, a lot of courage and right voice projection is needed. A great change of voice is needed so that it would sound like it was the witches who said it and not you. Also, to be able to face a crowd of people while acting with a strange voice would make even a extremely courageous person shy too. As seen from my classmates, I can see that they had put their heart into the whole play so as to make it a good one and that it was not easy for them.

A superstition is a belief that some objects or actions are lucky or unlucky, or that they cause events to happen, based on old ideas passed down from generation to generation. Superstitions may be about things that we do every day to supernatural things like aliens or ghost. For instance, one of the most common superstitions would be that breaking a mirror would bring 7 years of bad luck as a mirror was thought to be a reflection of the soul and breaking it is harmful to the soul. Another common superstition would be that if a black cat crosses a person's path, try not to follow it as the person will then take the same path as the cat and bad luck will then follow. From the presentation done from my classmates, I can say that they are a wide range of superstitions that are believe by many and that it is up to you to decide whether to believe it or not.