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Shakespearean domestic tragedy plays
a. Othello (about colored people)
b. Hamlet
c. Macbeth
d. King Lear
e. Tragic waste (Ophelia, Candilia, Bestemen) 

Othello
a. Theme: jealousy because of insecurity that initiates everything in the story
b. The danger of isolation
c. first published in 1565
d. "The tightly constructed work revolves around four central characters: Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army; his beloved wife, Desdemona; his loyal lieutenant, Cassio; and his tursted but unfaithful ensign, Lago. [The play provided] varied and current themes of racism, love, jealousy, betrayal, revenge and repentance." - Wikipedia

Analyzing literature (literary devices)
a. Motif: the important idea or subject that is repeated throughout a book or a story
b. Theme: soemthing that initiates everything in the story
c. Symbol: a mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function or process

 

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
a. Shakespeare's comedy play
b. Movie: Kevin and Michelle
c. "It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These included the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors, who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set." - Wikipedia




Election vs. City of Angels
a. Will, what is election going to do with me? Honesty, integrity, and fidelity.
b. Comparing and contrasting two movies: "Free will, as well as the consequence alone with the decision under free will, is one the general themes, shared by “Election” (1999) and “City of Angels” (1998). However, while the first won the first film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay, a Golden Globe nomination for Witherspoon in the Best Actress category, and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Film in 1999, the latter was only claimed as a melodramatic remake of Wim Wenders’ 1987 German film Wings of Desire.” - Professor T. Sara Sun