The Descent into Madness:
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: Literature Circles
Finish snapshot activities for section 2
B. Go over outlining.
The outline for your research paper is due Tuesday, 2/17.
C. Work on activities from Friday for the remainder of the period. What you don't finish, you will need to finish sometime this week. We will begin reading Hamlet tomorrow.
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: Literature Circles
Finish snapshot activities for section 2
B. Go over outlining.
The outline for your research paper is due Tuesday, 2/17.
C. Work on activities from Friday for the remainder of the period. What you don't finish, you will need to finish sometime this week. We will begin reading Hamlet tomorrow.