This a blog for Mr. James Cook's eleventh grade honors English class at Gloucester (MA) High School. Remember what Northrup Frye writes in _Fearful Symmetry_, "No one can begin to think straight unless [she or] he has a passionate desire to think and an intense joy in thinking."

Friday, April 13, 2007

Hamlet Motifs Assignment #1

Find two quotations from Act 1 and/or Act 2 that exemplify the motif you have been given.

Step 1: In the appropriate comment boxes above type in the quotations (with the proper citation: act, scene, line).

Step 2: After you have typed in the quotations, comment on them.
*Who is speaking? Who is being spoken to? What is the situtation (the context) in which the lines appear? And, finally, what do the lines mean in this context? What insights can you provide about the signficance of the quotation?

*Then, relate the quotations to the motif. How do the quotations relate the motif? What does Shakespeare's treatment of the motif reveal? What insights do you have about the significance of the motif as revealed by the two quotations?

*Then, ask a meaningful question about the motif and/or the quotations that other students willrespond to?

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