march 4 – act 3 scene 4

March 4 – Act 3 Scene 4Agenda:• Turn in your Act 3

journals• Quick-write• Critical Perspectives in

3:4• 3:4 on film

Homework:• Study for the Act 3 test

Take out:• Act 3• Notebook• Highlighter• Act 3 journals

Quick-write• How do you feel when you fight with your parents?• What emotions are expressed?• Do you expect to see similar emotions in this scene? Why/why

not?

Critical Perspectives - Reminder• Feminist Perspective:• Gender roles• Relationships & power dynamics between men and women• Male vs. Female perspective

• Marxist Perspective:• Influence of social, political and economic structures and expectations• The struggle for power• Superior and Subordinate relationships

• Psychoanalytical Perspective:• Repressed desires & Oedipal/Electra complex • Representation of psychosexual development• Demonstration of neuroses or psychoses

Critical Perspectives & 3:4• Read through Act 3, Scene 4 (page 102-109) with your group,

applying your assigned critical lens to the reading. • Look for specific lines that could lend to a connotative

understanding of the work based on the perspective you’ve been assigned.

• Consider how the work changes, or is given a new/different meaning, when considered through your given lens.

• Be prepared to share with the class.

On Film• For a director, reading the play through a lens will often lead

to specific and sometimes controversial directorial decisions. View the scene and decide which lens is the best fit to apply to the scene: Marxism (Who holds power?), Feminism (gender roles?), or Psychoanalytic (Oedipus Complex). Think about how each perspective applies to the scene.