March 4 – Act 3 Scene 4

1. March 4 – Act 3 Scene 4 Agenda: • 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

2. 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?

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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.