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Tragedy – 1st element
• Tragic Hero – great man of status, starts with everything, ends with nothing
Tragedy – 2nd element
• Tragic Flaw – obsession with power, greed, pride, etc.
• Caesar’s tragic flaw:
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Conflict
…the struggle between opposing forces
• Internal conflict examples:
• External conflict examples:
Blank Verse
• Writing with regular meter (rhythm) but no rhyme– Hence! home, you idle creatures get you home:
Is this a holiday? what! know you not,Being mechanical, you ought not walkUpon a laboring day without the signOf your profession? Speak, what trade art thou?
• Characters who speak in blank verse:
Prose
• Writing that follows regular speech patterns with no specific rhythm or structure– Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am
but, as you would say, a cobbler.
• Characters who speak in prose:
Iambic Pentameter
• Iamb = foot Pent = 5
• Ten syllable line with five “feet”
• One “foot” or “iamb” = (Stressed syllable + unstressed syllable)
Soliloquy
• Long speech by a character who is typically alone
• Example: Act III, Scene 1, lines 254-275 (pg 829)
Aside
• Comment made by a character to audience or another character, typically not heard by others on stage
• Example: Act II, Scene 2, lines 124-end (pg. 815)
Dramatic Irony
• Readers know something characters do not
• Example: Caesar’s death – we know it but he doesn’t
Situational Irony
• Difference between what is expected and what actually happens; oddness or unfairness of a situation
• Example: Antony trying to figure out how to reduce Caesar’s generous will
Verbal Irony
• Difference between what is said and what is meant– Antony: “I come to bury Caesar, not to honor
him.”– Antony: “Brutus is an honorable man”
Climax
• Most exciting, emotional high point
• Point at which conflict begins to resolve
– What is the major conflict in the play?
Climax
• Most exciting, emotional high point
• Point at which conflict begins to resolve
– What is the major conflict in the play?
• Be able to argue why one or both is climax– Caesar’s assassination– Death of Brutus and Cassius
Protagonist
• Central character
• Action revolves around him/her
• Undergoes main conflict
• Who is the protagonist?