“To be or not to be….” “To thine own self be true….”

Tragedy  Greek Tragedy: _____ _________meets destruction because of _____. Defined by _________as “the ________of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself.”  Shakespearean Tragedy: Noble character meets destruction because of a certain _________ ______(_____ ______)

Tragic Flaw  A _______in the hero’s character that brings about his ________(often a _______characteristic turned against the hero). In Julius Caesar it was Brutus’s sense of ________. In Romeo and Juliet their flaw was their impulsive ________. In Lord of the Flies, it’s Ralph’s desire for ___________. (Even though he doesn’t die.)

Tragic Hero  Usually a figure of _________within society  Suffers a change in fortune from __________to _________  Audience is moved both to ________because we recognize his misfortune is _________than he deserves and to _________generated by our recognition of _________flaws in our own fallible selves.

Fun Pun

Elizabethan Age  (Hint: Elizabeth I was queen. )  Also considered ____ __________(the “_______” of interest in all areas of _____________)  ____________? What’s that?   The birth of modern __________  Believed __________was the center of the __________

Within that well-ordered universe…  Religious rules  _________Right of Kings God given right to be king King was God’s ____________on Earth  Elizabethan’s believed in a _________order to their universe (i.e. God assigned everything and everyone a place.)

Elizabethan Hierarchy  God  ________  Humans* King  __________  Knights  Merchant  _____________  Serfs  Beasts, _________, Fish, and ________

“The play’s the thing …”(Bust out the blue packet.)  Blank verse  Rhyming couplets  Stage directions  Prose  Aside  Foil  Soliloquy  Monologue  Motif*

Motifs in Hamlet  ___________  Mortality  Appearance and __________  ___________  Doubt/Indecisiveness

Speaking of Shakespeare…