Focus Texts: Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Arthur Miller’s “Tragedy and the Common Man,” and Robert Warshow’s “The Gangster as Tragic Hero”
Essential Questions:
How do multiple authors examine the Aristotelian tragic hero?
How does an “anti-hero” descend into madness as exemplified in various genres?
A. Opening Assignment: Briefly summarize the main plot points of Act I.
B. Go over the next step of the research process: outlining
C. Go over Act I quiz.
D. Begin reading Act II of Hamlet
E. Closing: Discuss our reading thus far.
Essential Questions:
How do multiple authors examine the Aristotelian tragic hero?
How does an “anti-hero” descend into madness as exemplified in various genres?
A. Opening Assignment: Briefly summarize the main plot points of Act I.
B. Go over the next step of the research process: outlining
C. Go over Act I quiz.
D. Begin reading Act II of Hamlet
E. Closing: Discuss our reading thus far.