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: Review of Various Acts
Act I, Scene 1
B. Continue reading Act V.
C. Closing: Work on Act V graphic organizer. This is due tomorrow. You will also have a quiz over Act V.
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: Review of Various Acts
Act I, Scene 1
- How does Shakespeare begin the play with an immediate sense of suspense?
- What important exposition is revealed in this scene?
- Why has Horatio been asked to join the soldiers in the night watch? What has he decided to do?
- How does the audience know this ghost is not a hallucination?
B. Continue reading Act V.
C. Closing: Work on Act V graphic organizer. This is due tomorrow. You will also have a quiz over Act V.