My name: Lucy Kenyon
Date: 2 October 2017
Title: Grade 10 Long Essay
Topic: Resilience
Teacher: B. Mavuso
Books and Plays (4):
1) The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak (book)
2) David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell (book)
3) My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell (book)
4) Macbeth by William Shakespeare (play)
“Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or even significant sources of stress — such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems, or workplace and financial stressors. It means “bouncing back” from difficult experiences.” ( Association, A. Psyche Central, 2016) In order to discover whether you are resilient, unfortunately it means traveling through hardships …show more content…
His resilience is powered by ambition and the hunger for power. He doesn’t face the problems you would in everyday life, but every character will possess resilience when it is needed. Macbeth knew his fate due to the weird sisters: “All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter”and all that he needed to do was secure it, however there were problems that stood in his way. Macbeth’s ‘problems’ were those that stood against him on his path to power, Macbeth killed many of his problems. He beheaded King Duncan thus enabling him to be king. He had Banquo killed as he was a threat to his power and he had Macduff’s family murdered to show Macduff how powerful Macbeth truly is, however this only provoked Macduff which lead to Macbeths death. Macbeths resilience was not ordinary. His problems were with those around him as they prevented him from excelling. So he defeated and overcame them. Unfortunately Macbeths resilience also led to his death proving that resilience is not always a positive trait as it could blind
Date: 2 October 2017
Title: Grade 10 Long Essay
Topic: Resilience
Teacher: B. Mavuso
Books and Plays (4):
1) The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak (book)
2) David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell (book)
3) My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell (book)
4) Macbeth by William Shakespeare (play)
“Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or even significant sources of stress — such as family and relationship problems, serious health problems, or workplace and financial stressors. It means “bouncing back” from difficult experiences.” ( Association, A. Psyche Central, 2016) In order to discover whether you are resilient, unfortunately it means traveling through hardships …show more content…
His resilience is powered by ambition and the hunger for power. He doesn’t face the problems you would in everyday life, but every character will possess resilience when it is needed. Macbeth knew his fate due to the weird sisters: “All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter”and all that he needed to do was secure it, however there were problems that stood in his way. Macbeth’s ‘problems’ were those that stood against him on his path to power, Macbeth killed many of his problems. He beheaded King Duncan thus enabling him to be king. He had Banquo killed as he was a threat to his power and he had Macduff’s family murdered to show Macduff how powerful Macbeth truly is, however this only provoked Macduff which lead to Macbeths death. Macbeths resilience was not ordinary. His problems were with those around him as they prevented him from excelling. So he defeated and overcame them. Unfortunately Macbeths resilience also led to his death proving that resilience is not always a positive trait as it could blind