Evaluation: agree or disagree with pov or claim being made. Use text support
Conversation: lead class or group in short discussion
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.
2.4
O reason not the need!
Don’t ask why I need these things
If we have only what we need, then we are no better than animals
Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous
Even the poorest people own what they don’t need
If only to go warm were gorgeous, why nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear’st
Your high-endangered battles’ ‘gainst a head…” (23)
agenda
Review fool’s song at end of 3.2
What is afoot in 3.3?
Readers theater 3.4
HW: read 3.5 & 3.7 (skip 3.6)
Looking ahead: quiz Thursday acts 2-3
Know vocab quotes characters
“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.
Where does Self Pity shift to care for another?
“Come on, my boy. How dost my boy? Art cold?
Realizes that necessity makes all human conditions relative.
“More sinned against than sinning”
Do you still agree with your original response? If not, what changed your mind?
3.2
What do we learn about the fool’s character in this scene?
Why does he stay?
”None but the fool, who labors to outjest/His heart-struck injuries (20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q910HEkDOmE
He that has a tiny little wit
With heigh-ho, the wind and the rain-
Must make content with his fortunes fit
For 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 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”
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.
3.4 as a class-
Identify turning point and Lear’s epiphany
Identify specific lines.
3.4 Climax and Epiphany .
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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3.4 King Lear and Kent
2 volunteers to read lines 1-25 in 3.4
3.4 Why doesn’t he mind the storm?
Line 10: where the greater malady is fixed, / The lesser is scarce felt.
(the larger pain – daughters- makes the smaller pain –the storm- disappear)
“This tempest in my mind
Doth from my senses take all feeling else”
3.4 p. 137
“This tempest in my mind /Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there.” (15) p. 137
He doesn’t mind the storm; it takes his mind off larger issues.
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!
Your old kind father whose frank heart gave all!
O, that way madness lies. Let me shun that (24)
4 volunteers
How can we create this sense of betrayal and looming madness using our voices and simple stage directions?
Read the revised text
Suggestions from class?
Your turn!
Students will prepare reader’s theater for the rest of 3.4
students will count off and divide into 4 groups. (See attachment)
b. students will divide lines and act movement to their section
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, symbols, imagery, themes, character development
What is Lear’s Tragic Flaw and his Turning Point?
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Tragic Flaw: the trait that is responsible for actions leading to downfall and tragedy
agenda
Reader theater presentations- discuss meaning of section
Quiz on act 2-3 is moved to Friday
No Homework tonight
Group 1 Lear’s Prayer
“Poor naked wretches… (p. 137)
O I have ta’en
Too little care of this. Take physic, pomp
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.”
(I haven’t taken care of the poor. Heal thyself and feel what the poor do feel.)
Group 2 Edgar’s lines
Lear thinks that only the betrayal of daughters could bring a wretch so low
What do you note here:
Prose
(no verse)
Imagery of devil, betrayal
p. 141: Group 3
This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen. (85)
Edgar: Why the animal imagery?
Advice at end?
p. 141 Group 3
Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou. Off, off, you lendings! Come, unbutton here.”
What does Lear Recognize about himself, about humanit?
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.
What does Lear learn here?
He identifies with the common person
compassion
Group 4 Edgar
What type of irony is present at the end of the scene?
Gloucester too blind to recognize his son
The fool is more sane than Lear.
Group 4p. 147
Gloucester 176-180
“I am almost mad myself…”
3.4 Journal. Choose one
What does Lear learn about himself and the world in 3.4? Why is it considered the turning point? Cite at least one line to support statement
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Explain the meaning of Lear’s view of Tom as “the thing itself” – and what it means?
Poor naked wretches… (p. 137)
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)
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 he 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.
Agenda
Quick write Journal #3
3.5: betrayal complete
3.6 Poor Tom’s soliloquy
3.7 Out Vile Jelly Fill out sheet as we watch scene (Trigger warnings)
What is Shakespeare saying about Justice?
Quiz act 2-3 tomorrow
Gloucester (3rd hr )
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?
3.5
Edmund shows Cornwall the letter he father received that reveals France is ready to fight for king.
P. 155
3.6
Trial (Gloucestser leads Lear and party to a side building and exits before…
P. 155: Gloucester returns to tell Kent to take King to Dover (I have o’erheard a plot of death upon him.”
Fool’s last line: I’ll go to till noon.”
Edgar p.157
1. When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
