Monday, March 11, 2013

Hamlet Motifs



Motif Assignment
1.      Each quotation will be a separate comment on this post.
       
      Write down a quotation that develops your motif. (Include act, scene, and line.)
Write a detailed explanation of what the quotation means (in context) and how the quotation develops the motif.
2.      Write down another quotation that develops your motif. (Include act, scene, and line.)
Write a detailed explanation of what the quotation means (in context) and how the quotation develops the motif.
3.      Write down a third quotation that develops your motif. (Include act, scene, and line.)
Write a detailed explanation of what the quotation means (in context) and how the quotation develops the motif.
4.      Then write explain the development of the motif in play so far. Use quotations and other details to support your explanation.
     
       Motifs:



1.      Water and other fluids
2.      Sleep and Dreams
3.      Madness and Normalcy
4.      Decay and Deterioration
5.      Ghosts and Spirits
6.      Corruption and Honesty:
7.      Women and womanliness
8.      Eye and I (the self and seeing)
9.      Playing and Acting
10.  Man and Manliness
11.  Afterlife & Death
12.  Fortune/ Fate
13.  Flora and Fauna
14.  Words and Speaking
15.  Appearance and truth
16.  Responses to authority
17.  Action/Inaction