Class 3-20-13
Agenda Essay 2 – SparkNotes Quiz 7 Reading the Margins (the main idea) Practice Reading The Tempest Discussion of The Tempest Quiz 7 1. How do the Italian nobles end up on the island? 2. How did Prospero end…
The Power of Evoking Fear
Prospero is first presented in act I scene ii of The Tempest wearing his magical cloak. Prospero and Miranda witness the ship wreck, he starts to explain to Miranda where she comes from as well as his background. While conversing with…
Love at First Sight
Miranda’s new found love interest in Ferdinand shows how “love at first sight” hasn’t been the first time Shakespeare has used this theme, especially on a young, naive, and not even 16 year old teenager. The setting in far away…
Tempest scene 1: Staging
Although Shakespeare’s plays have been known more creative imagery and use of a stage, the opening ship during a storm scene for Tempest seems to be the most technical of all the plays to be read in this class so far…
class 3-18-13
Agenda Papers, Midterms, Revised Schedule, Synetic Tempest and Other House Keeping Quiz 6 Discussion of Performance Terms and Concepts Scenes From Branagh’s Henry V More discussion of play — Reading the Margins (the main idea) Quiz 6 1. What does…
Writing Issues and Solutions
avoid overly general intros or conclusions The introduction is the most important part of your essay. It’s where you most have the reader’s attention, it’s where the reader expects to see your specific argument, and it’s where, in laying out…
The Fall of Pistol and the Commoner’s Burden
Throughout Henry V, Pistol has been known to be the comical relief for the audience. Pistol, as a soldier, is the character that can relate to the common man. What was really interesting in the final act was what happened…
Henry V, Act 5
In Act 5 of Henry V we see King Henry attempting to persuade Princess Katharine to marry him. Though this is made difficult by the fact that Katharine only speaks broken English and Henry only speaks broken French, she ultimately…
Midterm answers
Name_____________________ General Instructions: Make sure you read all instructions carefully.Write your answers to sections I and II on this exam.Answer sections III and IV in your blue book. I.Very brief answers (one or two words to a sentence at most).5…
The Duke of York
In Act IV scene vi of the play, Exeter updates Henry on the battle going on with the French. The English are winning overwhelmingly, but two cousins, the Duke of York and the Earl of Suffolk have been killed. The…