Thursday, January 20, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
King Lear assignments
King Lear assignments
1. Write five newspaper headlines dealing with the issues in the text. Keep these from reputable newspapers rather than sensational papers.
2. Write an obituary for one of the characters that dies in the play. You will probably need to do a bit of historical research. This needs to be a page in length.
3. Look at the word count: http://www.eamesharlan.org/tptt/lear62.html Find the character names. Write a page about why you think some characters are mentioned more than other characters.
Reading notes:
Find examples to prove that Lear is truly mad or only feigning madness
Find instances of how nature affects the plot
How and when are animals mentioned?
Sleep and sleeplessness
Greed and lust
Fate – or is it in the hands of the gods?
Does age equal wisdom
Due Feb 3
1. Write five newspaper headlines dealing with the issues in the text. Keep these from reputable newspapers rather than sensational papers.
2. Write an obituary for one of the characters that dies in the play. You will probably need to do a bit of historical research. This needs to be a page in length.
3. Look at the word count: http://www.eamesharlan.org/tptt/lear62.html Find the character names. Write a page about why you think some characters are mentioned more than other characters.
Reading notes:
Find examples to prove that Lear is truly mad or only feigning madness
Find instances of how nature affects the plot
How and when are animals mentioned?
Sleep and sleeplessness
Greed and lust
Fate – or is it in the hands of the gods?
Does age equal wisdom
Due Feb 3
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Macbeth assignments
Macbeth assignments
1. Create a soundtrack for the play. Find one song for every scene in every act. These can be from ANY musical genre and do not need to be related
2. Write a one page diary entry from the point of view of ANY one character. This diary entry must be from the day the play begins.
3. Rewrite the following passages into modern-day language
4. BANQUO
How far is't call'd to Forres? What are these
So wither'd and so wild in their attire,
That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth,
And yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught
That man may question? You seem to understand me,
By each at once her chappy finger laying
Upon her skinny lips: you should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so. (I iii)
MACBETH
Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready,
She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed.
Exit Servant
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.
Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going;
And such an instrument I was to use.
Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses,
Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still,
And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
Which was not so before. There's no such thing:
It is the bloody business which informs
Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one halfworld
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder,
Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,
Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace.
With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design
Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,
And take the present horror from the time,
Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives:
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.
A bell rings
I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
Exit (II i)
ROSS
My dearest coz,
I pray you, school yourself: but for your husband,
He is noble, wise, judicious, and best knows
The fits o' the season. I dare not speak
much further;
But cruel are the times, when we are traitors
And do not know ourselves, when we hold rumour
From what we fear, yet know not what we fear,
But float upon a wild and violent sea
Each way and move. I take my leave of you:
Shall not be long but I'll be here again:
Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward
To what they were before. My pretty cousin,
Blessing upon you! (IV ii)
MACBETH
If thou speak'st false,
Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive,
Till famine cling thee: if thy speech be sooth,
I care not if thou dost for me as much.
I pull in resolution, and begin
To doubt the equivocation of the fiend
That lies like truth: 'Fear not, till Birnam wood
Do come to Dunsinane:' and now a wood
Comes toward Dunsinane. Arm, arm, and out!
If this which he avouches does appear,
There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here.
I gin to be aweary of the sun,
And wish the estate o' the world were now undone.
Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack!
At least we'll die with harness on our back. (V iii)
When reading:
Mark the inciting incident.
Mark the climax
Mark instances of darkness and light
Mark instances of sleeplessness
Mark instances of echoes
What is the role of the witches
Mark the threats
Mark the warnings
Lying (Equivocating – lying under morally acceptable causes)
Ill-fitted clothing
Criminal or hero?
Due January 25
Can either turn in via Moodle(in one big document) OR by hand
1. Create a soundtrack for the play. Find one song for every scene in every act. These can be from ANY musical genre and do not need to be related
2. Write a one page diary entry from the point of view of ANY one character. This diary entry must be from the day the play begins.
3. Rewrite the following passages into modern-day language
4. BANQUO
How far is't call'd to Forres? What are these
So wither'd and so wild in their attire,
That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth,
And yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught
That man may question? You seem to understand me,
By each at once her chappy finger laying
Upon her skinny lips: you should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so. (I iii)
MACBETH
Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready,
She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed.
Exit Servant
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw.
Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going;
And such an instrument I was to use.
Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses,
Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still,
And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
Which was not so before. There's no such thing:
It is the bloody business which informs
Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one halfworld
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder,
Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,
Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace.
With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design
Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,
And take the present horror from the time,
Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives:
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.
A bell rings
I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
Exit (II i)
ROSS
My dearest coz,
I pray you, school yourself: but for your husband,
He is noble, wise, judicious, and best knows
The fits o' the season. I dare not speak
much further;
But cruel are the times, when we are traitors
And do not know ourselves, when we hold rumour
From what we fear, yet know not what we fear,
But float upon a wild and violent sea
Each way and move. I take my leave of you:
Shall not be long but I'll be here again:
Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward
To what they were before. My pretty cousin,
Blessing upon you! (IV ii)
MACBETH
If thou speak'st false,
Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive,
Till famine cling thee: if thy speech be sooth,
I care not if thou dost for me as much.
I pull in resolution, and begin
To doubt the equivocation of the fiend
That lies like truth: 'Fear not, till Birnam wood
Do come to Dunsinane:' and now a wood
Comes toward Dunsinane. Arm, arm, and out!
If this which he avouches does appear,
There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here.
I gin to be aweary of the sun,
And wish the estate o' the world were now undone.
Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack!
At least we'll die with harness on our back. (V iii)
When reading:
Mark the inciting incident.
Mark the climax
Mark instances of darkness and light
Mark instances of sleeplessness
Mark instances of echoes
What is the role of the witches
Mark the threats
Mark the warnings
Lying (Equivocating – lying under morally acceptable causes)
Ill-fitted clothing
Criminal or hero?
Due January 25
Can either turn in via Moodle(in one big document) OR by hand
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Friday, January 7, 2011
Paper 1
All papers for this class must be turned in via Moodle.
Paper 1
Choose one topic from the four listed below:
Macbeth
· How does Macbeth change during the course of the play?
OR
- How is the theme of ambition dealt with in Macbeth?
King Lear
· What is the role of the fool in the play?
OR
· Evil infuses King Lear, and we certainly have no shortage of villains in the play. What kinds of evil are represented? What are its causes? Its consequences? Are the evildoers in King Lear brought to justice?
Due date: February 10, 2011
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