For your third blog post, I’d like you to think about setting. Begin by choosing a key moment in the assigned reading for that day. It might be a moment of intense dramatic tension, or it might be a moment that interested you for some other reason. Think specifically about how one or more characters interact with their environment in this passage. How does where their words and actions are set color the way we interpret those words or actions? You might think of this “where” question either in a very broad sense (such as how Denmark influences the way we see Hamlet) or look at something more localized (such as why Hamlet confronts his mother the Queen in her bedchamber).
As in your responses to the other prompts, you should focus your analysis on a short passages… ideally one of 10-15 lines, but no more than 30-40. However, after you analyze the passage, you may spend a paragraph or two examining how the play or the scene’s setting influences what we understand as the “point” of the play as a whole.
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