The Lenses
a way of analyzing a situation or developing a program by considering the differences between men and women. It can also be used to examine how content is biased towards men or women.
Gender Lens
How the inciting incident begins in Shakespeare's tragedies...
A disruption to The Great Chain of Being
An essay should start with a ...
hook
An uninterrupted speech, heard by other characters
Monologue
What do the eyes of Dr. Tj Eckleburg represent in The Great Gatsby?
Eyes of judgement on the moral and spiritual decay of American society. They can also represent the haunting past, the eyes of God, and the consequences of vain pursuits.
The lenses that looks at class, economic power, and social inequality
Socioeconomic/Marxist Lens
What was the disruption to The Great Chain of Being in Hamlet?
Killing of King Hamlet by Claudius
A claim sentence should have two things... What are they?
- Key terms from thesis
- Active verb (symbolizes, emphasiseds, illustrates, parallels etc)
Juxtaposition
What does the green light in The Great Gatsby represent?
Gatsby's hope, love, and the American Dream. The green light is also a symbol of the distance between Gatsby and Daisy, and the gap between the past and the present.
When you take the life and times of the author into consideration
The Contextual Lens
What is a peripeteia?
Reversal of Fortune - A sudden change that results in a negative reversal of circumstances
present
A repeated pattern—an image, literary device , word, or symbol that comes back again and again within a particular story to push the theme forward.
A motif
The moral decay of society
Using Sigmund Freud's theories to anayse a text
Psychoanalytic Lens
The discovery where the main character either recognises or identifies his true nature
Anagnorisis
Using the board write a proper in text citation for William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Scene 4, Lines 45-46, Act 2
(2.4.45-46)
The author's attitude towards a subject.
You use their diction to identify this.
Tone
What does the weather represent in The Great Gatsby?
The characters feelings?
When you focus soley on the text and its contents when analzying
Formalism Lens
A Hamartia is..
A tragic flaw or error that reverses the protagonist's fate from good to bad.
Ex. Hamlet's inability to decide when to kill his Uncle and his pride
Use your copy of The Great Gatsby to write a proper citation for a Work Cited page on the board.
dependent
The feeling the reader experiences while reading.
You identify this by using the setting and atomsphere
Mood
What do flowers often represent in literature?
fragility, sexuality, beauty,