1. A1 Agenda …We’re still playing catch up.
Tragedy Notes (quiz next class)
Watch all of Act 2?
Hamlet’s soliloquy at the end of Act 2?
I can analyze plot and characters of Hamlet.
Essential Question: What drives a person to madness?

2. A3 Agenda …We’re still playing catch up.
Act 2: Watch and analyze pieces
Hamlet’s soliloquy at the end of Act 2
If time: Reminder of Socratic questioning types.
Socratic questions for homework
I can analyze plot and characters of Hamlet.
Essential Question: What drives a person to madness?

3. Elizabethan/ Tragedy Notes
The Elizabethan people firmly believed in something called “the Divine Order” or “The Great Chain of Being.”
This means that EVERYONE had a certain purpose and place in the kingdom.
For example…

4. Least Amount of Spirit/ Lowest on the Divine Order
Great Chain of Being
Most Amount of Spirit/Highest on the Divine Order
God
Angels (seraphim, cherubim)
Humans (kings, merchants, men women, etc.
Animals (mouse, dogs, lions, etc.)
Plants (grass, trees, etc.)
Nonliving Objects (rocks, metals, etc.)
Least Amount of Spirit/ Lowest on the Divine Order

5. Divine Order
Most Amount of Spirit/Highest on the Divine Order Kings Queens Nobles Merchants Peasants Least Amount of Spirit/ Lowest on the Divine Order

6. Divine Order
Most Amount of Spirit/Highest on the Divine Order Fathers Mothers Brothers Sisters Peasants Least Amount of Spirit/ Lowest on the Divine Order

7. Social and Cosmological Consequences
There would be consequences for disobeying the Divine Order!!
Not only would there be social ramifications (shunned from family, friends, etc.), but there would also be the potential for natural disaster of some kind.

8. Elements of a Tragedy
First, this requires the fall of a regal person. Odds are, this will be a QUICK and SUDDEN fall.
How do we see this in Hamlet?

9. Revenge must be central to the action
Tragedy Notes
Revenge must be central to the action
Revenger can be a hero or a villain
Action must involve a blood revenge (kinship)
Hesitation is typical on the part of the revenger
Revenger wants to kill the target’s body and soul

10. …continued
6. There is a visitation by the ghost of the original murder victim 7. There’s often a suicide 8. There is counteraction by the antagonist 9. There are multiple deaths 10. Madness of the revenger (feigned or real)

11. Can a tragedy be ALL fate? ALL free will?
FATE vs. FREE WILL
Basically, the development of events beyond a person’s control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power (FATE) versus free will
Tragedies MUST have a balance of the two.
In tragedies, we must consider how much fate and free will affect the outcome of the work.
Can a tragedy be ALL fate? ALL free will?
Why or why not?

12. External Influences
These, often supernatural influences, will often signify the role of FATE

13. Tragic Nobility
The hero MUST accept some measure of responsibility and need SOME sense of a dignified ending. This means no begging, groveling, etc.
The hero needs a dignified death
KEY TERM: Regicide- the deliberate killing of a monarch

14. Anagnorisis The critical moment of recognition or discovery
Otherwise known as, “tragic enlightenment”
It’s when the character realizes their part in the downfall

15. The quality that will bring about ruin
Hamartia
Tragic flaw
The quality that will bring about ruin