Thursday, October 8 th, 2015 Please take out your Poetry Analysis Packet from yesterday, your Writer’s Notebook, and the Hamlet script you were given Monday

Thursday, October 8Thursday, October 8thth, 2015, 2015Please take out your Poetry

Analysis Packet from yesterday, your Writer’s

Notebook, and the Hamlet script you were given

Monday.

AP Poetry Analysis PacketAP Poetry Analysis Packet• Please label your thesis

• Please label your outline

• Please label your body paragraphs

• Please staple it to your packet and turn it in.

Homework: Homework: • Read Hamlet Act 1, Scene 1.

• Please answer the questions in the margins on the script I provided you on Monday: Due tomorrow.

• Finish taking notes over the lecture (powerpoint will be on my website; due next Thursday {hint, hint, hint}

Tragedy LectureTragedy LecturePlease take out paper and a pen or pencil to take notes.

Shakespearean Shakespearean TragedyTragedy

What is tragedy? What is tragedy?

How would you define it based upon what you already know or have

experienced?

Tragedy is…Tragedy is…

Origins/InfluencesOrigins/Influences

Greek Tragedy—Aristotle’s classical definition

Copy the Structure Copy the Structure of Tragedy (triangle) of Tragedy (triangle)

on the boardon the board


Elements of Aristotle’s Tragedy & in order of importance:

1.Plot

2.Noble/Admirable Protagonist (usually male) (Tragic Hero) {Tragic Flaw—hamartia (character flaw), hubris (pride)}

3.Thought

4.Diction

5.Song/Melody

6.Spectacle

End: Catharsis (purging, cleansing)


• Roman Tragedy—Seneca–Revenge Tragedy

–Tyranny/Revenge

–Excessive Violence/Bloody Horror

Elizabethan World ViewElizabethan World View

On the board: Copy!!

Elizabethan World ViewElizabethan World View

• Order is divinely ordained

• Order is disrupted in tragedy– Internal forces—human weakness

–External forces—fortune/bad luck

• Order must be restored–Restorer of Order—authority figure

Characteristics of Characteristics of Shakespearean TragedyShakespearean Tragedy

• Mood—Earnestness• Theme– Illustrious/Serious–Life’s dark underside

• Style–Elevated–Generally Verse


• Type of Characters–Noble but flawed

–Upper class


• Character Motivation–Spiritual values

–Feeling

–Sincerity

–Glorious/Failure

–Spiritual Self-Realization


• Setting—Usually remote in time and place

• Plot–Strict Cause and Effect

–“Tragic Destiny”/Fate

– Inward Action (hero’s internal struggle)


• Plot–Revolution of Fortune from High to

Low (Glorious/Failure)

–Ends in death


• Effect of Play on Audience–Affects emotions

–Stirs/moves audience

–Catharsis

Hamlet ActivityHamlet Activity• You and your group will create a

relationship map for the characters listed in the Dramatis Personae.

• You will only use the information relayed on the script provided to you on Monday.

• How you choose to organize your relationship map will be determined by your group.

• Creativity will be awarded!!

Documents

Thursday, October 8 th, 2015 Please take out your Poetry Analysis Packet from yesterday, your Writer’s Notebook, and the Hamlet script you were given Monday