Choose three to five key passages from Act 1 to use in your chart. You can complete the chart tonight or work on it during class tomorrow. If you did not use the USSR time today for your own reading, please read at least 15 pages tonight.
In a formal, literary paragraph, discuss the purpose of the blindness motif in Act 1? How might it be setting up the key themes for the remainder of the play?
Be sure to move beyond the obvious in your discussion. There is no need to discuss plot. Focus more on character revelation, symbol interpretation, and use of prose/blank verse to reveal tension in the act.
I look forward to reading your interpretations.
You will have some time during tomorrow's class to get a good start on the paragraph. Double space please. Submit the chart with the paragraph on Monday.
I am almost finished marking your short stories. They are brilliant--evocative, poignant and not at all officious.
Your ebullient teacher,
Ms. Stenson
