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What is Fortune?

What is Fortune? . “All is but fortune”. Do Now: On your handout, write all the words, ideas and phrases that come to mind when I say the word, “Fortune”. What is Fortune?. Turn and talk: Turn to the person to your LEFT Talk with them about what you wrote

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What is Fortune?

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  1. What is Fortune? “All is but fortune”

  2. Do Now: On your handout, write all the words, ideas and phrases that come to mind when I say the word, “Fortune”.

  3. What is Fortune? • Turn and talk: • Turn to the person to your LEFT • Talk with them about what you wrote • Discuss: Do you agree with each other? Did someone write something you didn’t think of? Can you come up with more ideas?

  4. Activity • You will be placed in small groups of 4-5 students • In your group, you need to listen closely to the lines read from As You Like It • Quickly position yourselves into a pose (can use movement) to represent the lines read aloud • Ready?

  5. Fortune: From the 1600’s • Fortune has been a central element of many plays, poems, and prose works of the early modern period. • Fortune represents the feeling that we have limited power to control both the momentous and the every day happenings of our lives.

  6. Fortune is uncertain and unpredictable • This has not stopped human beings from wanting to know the future. Think about astrology and palm reading. How many of you can’t wait to get to the fortune cookie at the end of a meal? • Think about the ways fortune plays a role in your life?

  7. Fortune: A visual exploration • You will be looking at a series of pictures. • As you observe each picture, write on your handout what you see and how it relates to fortune. • Use your inference skills and support your reasoning with evidence from the primary source.

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  11. Share out some of your ideas. • The “Wheel of Fortune” is a medieval concept derived from Ancient Greece and their concept of fate. • This is attempting to explain or justify why bad things happen to either good or powerful people. One may be at the top of the wheel, but chance and circumstance can turn the wheel suddenly and the individual can find himself at the bottom. At the same time, those at the bottom of the wheel, because it has spun, find themselves at the top.

  12. This picture shows the humorous word-play Celia uses in As You Like It. She calls Lady Fortune a “good housewife”. • Lady Fortune was often depicted turning her wheel, which both raised up people (such as the king and bishop on the left side of the wheel) and threw them to the ground. • Because of her flirtatious and treacherous nature, Lady Fortune was often referred to as a "hussy," which is a variant of the word "huswife." • However, "huswife" also meant "housewife," a dutiful manager of household affairs.

  13. The Wheel of Fortune, or Rota Fortuna • The wheel belongs to the goddess Fortuna

  14. The wheel of fortune from the BuranaCodex • The figures are labeled "Regno, Regnavi, Sum sine regno, Regnabo": I reign, I reigned, My reign is finished, I shall reign

  15. Back to As You Like It… • You will now get Act 1, Scene 2 • This scene involves Celia and Rosalind. • As we are reading, think about the characters’ feelings toward the idea of fortune. How has fortune made an impact on their lives?

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