When the cat’s away the mice will play

Comprehension:When the authority or power is gone, those who have been hiding are more inclined to reveal themselves.

“play” can refer to any action taken that may either call mischief or, in the case of mice, thieving.

Relates to Lear: When Lear relinquishes his authority his daughters certainly do come out to play. They play the game of flattery in order to take what they consider rightfully theirs.

Evaluation: It is an adaquate description “We must do something and I’ th’ heat.

Examples of Thesis Statements

• Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, both sinners, are used to portray Hawthorne’s belief that atonement requires public shame.

• In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts an early feminist through the strength, self-confidence, and free will of Hester Prynne.

Make sure you preview suppoting ideasin intro

Topic Sentences

• They must introduce the main idea of the paragraph.

• Don’t start with a sentence of summary:– When Hester goes to the forest she meets

Dimmesdale.– Roger Chillingworth is introduced in

chapter 3: “By the Indian’s side…”• Doesn’t present main idea also- don’t use quote for T.S.

Writing tips

• Don’t start sentence with the word how– How Hawthorne shows Hester as an

independent woman is by having her live on the outskirt of town.

– The location of Hester’s cottage on the edge of town, supports Hawthorne’s depiction of her as an independent woman.

• Use 1 word instead of two– As the story goes on– As the story continues

Don’t be redundant

• But yet, Pearl finds comfort in the forest.• Pearl, however, finds comfort in the forest.

Don’t use both. Better to use However. The word however, however, should not be placed in the beginning of the sentence.

However you look at it, Math is hard.

(whichever way you see it)

Quotes: follow the punctuation as presented in the text

1. If you are quoting from the beginning of the quote use a capital letter.In the forest Dimmesdale begs Hester to “Be thou strong for [him].” •(Be is the first word of the quote as it appears in the book.)2. If you quote from the middle then use lower caseHester tells Dimmesdale to give up “this false life of thine for a true one.” •(this false life is in the middle of a sentence.)

• End of paragraph should relate back to your thesis, or topic sentence.

• Quotes need to be introduced and incorporated correctly.

• Quotes need to be explained after they are cited.

• Topic sentences need to clearly state what the main idea of paragraph is.

• Conclusions need to restate the main points you made throughout essay

• Introduction needs to include preview of supporting ideas.

Always explain the quote

• Commentary is the most important part of your essay.

• Relate it back to your topic sentence or thesis.

3.2 speech-practice oral skills• Watch speech• Each person is assigned a part of the

speech• Write down what you think it means and

how it relates to Lear and themes• Discuss with partner• Class discussion• Turn to partner and for one minute explain

the meaning of this speech.• Switch

Finish act 3

• Look at your section assigned to reader’s theater, and understand what is going on.

agenda

• Prepare your passage analysis with partners and report findings to class

• For tomorrow: Journals act 1-2 due

• During Mea: Finish reading Lear. – Quiz on Act 2 Monday the 20th– Journals 3-4 due on the 20-21

Prompt: “More sinned against than sinning”

• 1. What does it mean?

• 2. Is it true? Do you agree or not? Give evidence. Write down your answer

• 3. Share pair

“More sinned against than sinning?” (60)

• What does this reveal about his development as a human being?– Recognizes he has made mistakes– His beliefs about human nature and relationships

are invalid, meaningless

– But.. He doesn’t believe that he deserves to be in the wilderness exposed to the storm

– His daughter’s sins and disrespect are greater than the mistakes he has made.

Scene 1

Kent meets the gentleman and learns that France has sent spies into England

There are rumors of division between the daughters.

Kent gives gentleman his ring to show Cordelia to confirm Kent’s identity.

Looks for Lear

How does the storm mirror Lear’s emotional state?

• Find metaphors that reveal the personal storm brewing in his mind.

• -oak-cleaving (storm that destroys)– Sulph’rous and thought-executing fires

• Storm destroys throught (reason?)

– Crack (sanity?)– Rage (obvious)

Comparing the destructive power of the storm to his own destruction and that of the world.

Storm as Metaphor fighting against him

• Represents turbulence in Lear’s own mind and the unbalance of the natural order

• King has abandoned post, daughters have betrayed their father

• Sub plot mirrors growing chaos• Politcial storm; strife between Cornwall and

Albany• France planning to invade

Asks the storm to “strike flat the thick rotundity of’ the world” (destroy world) (9)

Personification?Personifies the storm as “servile ministers” or agents set out to destroy him:

‘I call you servile ministers,

That will with two pernicious daughters join

Your high-endangered battles’ ‘gainst a head…” (23)

“More sinned against than sinning”

• Do you still agree with your original response? If not, what changed your mind?

Self Pity

• But shifts…. Where/– “Come on, my boy. How dost my boy? Art

cold?– Realizes that necessity makes all human

conditions relative.

3.2

1. What do we learn about the fool’s character in this scene?

2. Why does he stay?

”None but the fool, who labors to outjest/His heart-struck injuries (20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q910HEkDOmEHe that has a tiny little witWith heigh-ho, the wind and the rain-Must make content with his fortunes fitFor the rain it raineth every day.

those who are stupid, must take what they can get, for misfortune rains upon us every day.

How does this apply to Lear?

Summary

• Gloucester receives letter about France invading on behalf of the King– “There is part of a power already footed.”

3.3

• What is unnatural and savage here?

• How does Edmund conspire against his father?

3.3 irony

• “Most savage and unnatural” (6)– In response to his father’s complaint that

the Duke would not let him allow Lear in the castle.

– His father trusts him not to tell the Duke where he is going, but Edmund does just the opposite.

– He hopes to gain what his father loses;– “The young rises when the old doth fall”

Two volunteers to read lines 1-25 in 3.4King Lear and Kent

What is going on here? • “This tempest in my mind /Doth from my

senses take all feeling else Save what beats there.”

(The storm in my mind takes precedence over everything else)

• What doe Lear mean at the end of speech: “O that way madness lies. Let me shun that.

• (He realizes that if he continues to think about his daughters’ treatment of him and his loss of authority, he will indeed go mad.)

Your old kind father whose frank heart gave all!

O, that way madness lies. Let me shun that (24)

Reader’s Theater

• Readers Theatre is a style of theater in which the actors do or do not memorize their lines. In Readers Theatre, actors use vocal expression to help the audience understand the story rather than visual storytelling such as sets, costumes, and intricate blocking.

Five volunteers

• How can we create this sense of betrayal and looming madness using our voices and simple stage directions?

• Read the revised text

• Follow my blocking for first half

• Suggestions from class?

Your turn!

• Students will prepare reader’s theater for the rest of 3.4

a.students will count off and divide into groups. (See attachment)

b.b. students will divide lines and act movement to their section

c. See handout

Rubric

_____5 points for creative effort

_____5 points for understanding of section

_____5 points for identifying lines that correctly identify Lear’s transformation and themes of justice, disorder, blindness/vision etc.

Agenda

• 15 minutes to rehearse scene– Remember to find variety in speaking lines

and movements. Emphasize Lear’s growing insight and transformation and any them that your see.

– Be sure to know what your section is about– Report to class significant lines– Tomorrow short quiz

Poor naked wretches… (p. 137)

He thinks that only the betrayal of daughters could bring a wretch so low

This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen. (85)

Thou art the thing itself; unacommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art (115)

Homework

• For Monday: Read 4.1-4.6 and answer questions.

• For Tuesday 4.7-5,2

• For Wed. 5.3

• Thursday review

• Friday: in class essay

3.4 Climax and Epiphanyfind quote that reveals this.

Climax: the turning point in the play or story. Usually the most exciting part of the play…. But also occurs when the character has his epiphany

Epiphany: the moment the character realizes that nothing will ever be the same again.

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Why does Lear strip?

• “thou art the thing itself” he recognizes

• That Tom (Edgar) represents man without possessions…a basic man with no friends, or family. He realizes that Tom no better than an animal. He also realizes that he is the same. He has this in common with Tom: they both have nothing.

3.4 Why doesn’t he mind the storm?

“This tempest in my mind

Doth from my senses take all feeling else”

He doesn’t mind the storm; it takes his mind off larger issues.

Edgar

• What type of irony is present at the end of the scene?

• Gloucester too blind to recognize his son

• The sane are acting mad

• The mad are acting…. ?– Natural?

What does Lear learn here?

• He identifies with the common person

• compassion