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: 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. Begin reading Act I of Hamlet.
C. Closing: Receive homework (Miller's "Tragedy and the Common Man")
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: 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. Begin reading Act I of Hamlet.
C. Closing: Receive homework (Miller's "Tragedy and the Common Man")