Essential Questions:
How do multiple authors examine the Aristotelian tragic hero?
How does an “anti-hero” descend into madness as exemplified in various genres?
Learning Targets/Standards:
I can read dramatic literature and analyze its conventions to identify how they express a writer’s meaning.
1. Opening Assignment: Answer the following question regarding Heart of Darkness.
Each of the three main characters in this story—Marlow, Kurtz and the Intended—represents a clearly different point of view on the nature of the world and perhaps even on the meaning of life. How can each of these views be described? To what extend are they mutually exclusive?
2. Heart of Darkness Section III Literature Circle
3. Closing: Review your discussions.
How do multiple authors examine the Aristotelian tragic hero?
How does an “anti-hero” descend into madness as exemplified in various genres?
Learning Targets/Standards:
I can read dramatic literature and analyze its conventions to identify how they express a writer’s meaning.
1. Opening Assignment: Answer the following question regarding Heart of Darkness.
Each of the three main characters in this story—Marlow, Kurtz and the Intended—represents a clearly different point of view on the nature of the world and perhaps even on the meaning of life. How can each of these views be described? To what extend are they mutually exclusive?
2. Heart of Darkness Section III Literature Circle
3. Closing: Review your discussions.