A Comprehensive Examination of The Tragic Hero
Focus Texts: Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, T.S. Elliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Arthur Miller’s “Tragedy and the Common Man,” and Robert Warshow’s “The Gangster as Tragic Hero”
Essential Questions:
1. How do multiple authors examine the Aristotelean tragic hero?
2. How does an “anti-hero” descend into madness as exemplified in various genres?
A. Opening Assignment: Notecard
Have you or anyone you have known ever seen or claimed to have witnessed some kind of supernatural being? Explain the circumstances surrounding the even. Do you believe in the supernatural? Explain.
B. Complete Shakespeare Shaky Bio activity and Hamlet anticipation guide.
C. Complete pre-reading Comparing Shakespeare's contemporaries activity.
D. Complete the pre-reading setting and history activity.
E. Complete the pre-reading word game.