AP Literature & Composition

Week 12

Kick-Off: Monday, November 16th

• Write one question you have about Oedipus. • Fold the paper and make a pile of questions at

your table.

The Absurdity and Tragedy of the Human Condition

• Charlie Hebdo Massacre in Paris on January 7th, 2015 – Al Qaeda takes responsibility

• Six coordinated attacks in Paris on November 13th, 2015 – ISIS takes responsibility

https://instagram.com/p/-C-NNrHZXh/?taken-by=joannsfar• “Beirut, Also the site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten”• http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/world/middleeast/beirut-leba

non-attacks-paris.html?smid=fb-share

• BBC- Kenya attack: 147 dead in Garissa University assault • Syrian Refuge Crisis• Muslims respond to ISIS

JigsawGroup 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5 Group 6 Group 7

“Three Teams of Coordinated Attackers Carried out Assault in Paris”

“Terrorists Strike Charlie Hebdo Newspaper in Paris, Leaving 12 Dead”

“Beirut, Also the Site of Deadly Attacks, Feels Forgotten”

“Syrian Refuge Crisis Continues to Capture World’s Attention”

“A Day Before the Paris Attacks, Suicide Bombers Killed 43 in Beirut”

“Kenya Attack: 147 Dead in Garissa University Assault

“Muslims launch Powerful Social Media Campaign”

Kick-Off: Tuesday, November 16th 2015

• Oedipus Rex Reading Check• Clear your desk except for your Oedipus notes

and a writing utensil• Complete the Oedipus Rex reading check. • Write on the bubble sheet ONLY.• We’ll go through answers after.

A Look at Week 12

• Monday – Absurdity in the World Today• Tuesday – Oedipus Rex• Wednesday – Aristotle’s definition of Tragedy;

The Goat and Oedipus Rex comparison• Thursday – In-class writing • Friday – Intro to Hamlet

Oedipus Crash Course

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj7R36s4dbM

QUESTION BOX

Oedipus Film Clips

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZUCgq8LfhY

• 17:30 – Tiresias• 56:00 – Jocasta• 1:16 – Final scene

Oedipus in Art

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Oedipus in Art

Gustave Moreau

Oedipus in Art

Paul Atroshenko

Oedipus in Art

Max Ernst

Oedipus in Art

Yuri Leonov

Oedipus in Art

Unattributed

Homework

• Compose a thesis for Thursday’s in-class essay

The Goat and Oedipus Rex both explore themes and questions about the human condition: Do humans cause their own downfalls or is our fate determined by other forces? Essentially, what is more powerful- free will or fate? Use either The Goat or Oedipus Rex to support your argument.

Kick-Off: Wednesday, November 18th

• Independently read through the poem “Song”• Annotate for questions and meaning. • We’ll discuss in 5 minutes!

Our Study of Unit 2 Texts

A Modest Proposal= Satirical ComedyThe Goat, or Who is Sylvia? = Tragi-ComedyOedipus Rex = Tragedy (ultimate Aristotlean

Tragedy)Hamlet = Tragedy (Shakespearean Tragedy) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead = Tragic

Comedy/Absurdist Fiction/Existentialism Which leads into our study of the existentialism in Invisible Man…

The Goat: The Subtitle

“Notes Toward a Definition of Tragedy”

Tragoidia = “Goat Song”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlYlNF30bVg

The Study of Tragedy

Tragedy begins by asking ultimate questions: Why are we here? Does life have meaning or purpose? More to the point, can life have meaning in the face of so

much suffering and evil in the world? Does death negate the significance of the protagonist's life and

the goals he/she was seeking?

Philosophers and theologians through the ages have debated the question of the origin of suffering, but tragedy offers no single

solution.

The Tragic Hero

• A tragic hero is a person of noble standing with heroic or potentially heroic qualities.

• The tragic hero possesses a tragic flaw, which contributes to his/her downfall

• This person is fated by the Gods or by some supernatural force to doom and destruction or at least to great suffering.

• Examples) Okonkwo, Simba, Walter White

Harmartia: The Tragic Flaw

• The tragic hero always has some error or frailty, according to Aristotle, that brings about his or her misfortunate.

• This weakness is called hamartia, or the tragic flaw– i.e. excess of pride (hubris), ambition, passion, or

some other character trait that leads directly to disaster

• It would be wrong to reduce a complex character and their fate to a simple adjective, but the tragic flaw can lead to a simple understanding of the complexity

Peripeteia

• Occurs when a situation seems to developing in one direction, then suddenly "reverses" to another.

Anagnorisis

• Change from ignorance to awareness of a bond of love or hate.

• Recognition scenes in tragedy are of some horrible event or secret, while those in comedy usually reunite long-lost relatives or friends.

• A plot with tragic reversals (peripeteia) and recognitions best arouses pity and fear.

Catastrophe

• The unraveling of events and change in fortune due to the peripeteia (reversal) and anagnorisis (recognition)

The CatharsisProtagonists always accept their downfall and accept responsibility for it, displaying greatness of character– This is called catharsis, the purging of the

emotions of “pity and fear”– The process of releasing, and thereby providing

relief from, strong or repressed emotions.

Irony

• Dramatic Irony is also known as Tragic Irony– The meaning of the character’s words of actions is understood by the

audience but not by a character– Audiences often shared with the playwrights a knowledge of the

stories on which many tragic plots were based, so they were aware of what was going to happen before the characters were.

The Goat: How much does it fit Aristotle’s definition of a tragedy?

Homework

• Compose a thesis for Thursday’s in-class essay

The Goat and Oedipus Rex both explore themes and questions about the human condition: Do humans cause their own downfalls or is our fate determined by other forces? Essentially, what is more powerful- free will or fate? Use either The Goat or Oedipus Rex to support your argument.

Kick-off: Thursday, November 19th 2015

• Find your horoscope description.• At your tables, discuss – does your sign fit

you? Have you been fated to be a certain way due to what sign you were born under?

• EACH PERSON SHOULD TALK

The Prompt

The Goat and Oedipus Rex both explore themes and questions about the human condition: Do humans cause their own downfalls or is our fate determined by other forces? Essentially, what is more powerful- free will or fate? Use either The Goat or Oedipus Rex to support your argument.

Absurdity, Tragedy and Society Collage

• EXTRA CREDIT (10 points)• DUE MONDAY• Include an artist’s statement explaining your

collage!

Kick-off: Friday, November 19th

• Pick up a copy of Hamlet from the bookshelf in the back.

• Fill out the Book Distribution Sheet

Homework:

• Complete Hamlet, Act I (Scenes 1-5) and questions by Tuesday, November 24th

– We will start discussing on Monday!!