“the most powerful elements of emotional interest in Tragedy — Peripeteia or Reversal of the Situation, and Recognition scenes — are parts of the plot” Reflect on the overall structure of the plot. Look back at a plot diagram. Consider the overall arc of the film. Does it follow the usual path of a tragedy? […]

Plot Character Diction Thought Melody Spectical Begins with minor key music – introduces a sad story Setting: Black and white, stage with no audience, single pure white spotlight. First shot is of the ballet shoes dancing – could represent how the shoes and nina are beautiful and perfect on the outside but painful and ugly […]

Brief Plot Overview: Nina had dedicated her life to ballet and when her dance companies artistic director decides their opening production will be Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice for swan queen. Nina is fragile and innocent obssessed with being perfect and is ideal for the white swan role. However new competetion Lily personifies […]

Brief Plot Overview: Charles Foster Kane is a wealthy newspaper publisher, when he passes alone in his mansion a reporter is assigned to decifer Kanes dying words “rosebud”. His investigation of Kanes past gradually reveals the complex and facinating life he lived. The audience is able to see Kanes transition from obscurity to fame and […]

The Subplot In this final act, we are told that Glocester has died of a heart attack when poor Tom revealed himself to be Edgar along. Gloucester was so happy he died. Shakespeare creates and holds tension by having Edgar explain this instead of having the readers experience it. It creates tension as the readers […]

The Subplot Thickens Gloucester who is now psychically blind is being led by Poor Tom (Edgar) to a cliff where he plans to jump. Edgar, not wanting his father to die, tricks Gloucester to jump off a small ledge so that he believes he was saved for a reason/miracle and thinks he has a purpose. […]

Our reading experience is heightened when we care about the fate of the protagonist. Intro In William Shakespeare’s “King Lear” our reading experience is heightened as we are invested in the fate and well-being of the protagonist, King Lear. As the play progresses so does the deterioration of Lear’s mental health as he is quickly […]

The Storm “Who’s there, besides foul weather?” — Kent “Contending with the fretful elements. Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea or swell the curled waters ‘above the main” — Gentleman “Since I was man, Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never […]

The Subplot Act 2 begins with Edmund, Edgar, and Gloucester. Edmund speaks with the courtier, Curan, who advises him that Regan and Cornwall will arrive shortly at Gloucester’s castle. He also passes on the gossip that there may soon be a war between Cornwall and Albany. After Curan leaves, Edmund expresses his delight over the […]

The Inciting Incident King Lear decides to “retire” from the throne and divide his kingdom into three equal parts for each of his loving daughters. “Know that we have divided In three our kingdom, and ’tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, conferring them on younger strengths while unburdened […]