Week18

Final 

Week17

• 寫作技巧
  One paragraph, one central idea !

• Hypothesis 
       A  proposed explanation for a phenomenon.
• A Midnight's Dream
        A comedy play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1597. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (mechanicals), who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.

• Catch me if you can
        A 2002 American biographical crime drama film based on the life of Frank Abagnale, who, before his 19th birthday, successfully performed cons worth millions of dollars by posing as a Pan American World Airways pilot, a Georgia doctor, and a Louisiana parish prosecutor. His primary crime was check fraud; he became so experienced that the FBI eventually turned to him to help in catching other check forgers. 

• Death o f a Salesman
       Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman addresses loss of identity and a man's inability to accept change within himself and society. The play is a montage of memories, dreams, confrontations, and arguments, all of which make up the last 24 hours of Willy Loman's life. The play concludes with Willy's suicide and subsequent funeral.

                                                          Theme -- American Dream

• American Dream
        A national ethos of the United States, a set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with few barriers.

Week16

• 看title就知道故事地點在哪裡                           Place
  The Merchant of Venice                                   (Italy)
  A Midnight's Dream of Dream                       (Greece)
• Four Great Tragedy :
  
  • Hamlet   - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
       A tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatises the revenge Prince Hamlet is instructed to enact on his uncle Claudius. Claudius had murdered his own brother, Hamlet's father King Hamlet, and subsequently seized the throne, marrying his deceased brother's widow, Hamlet's mother Gertrude.
  
  
  • Othello
       A tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in the year approximately 1603, and based on the short story Un Capitano Moro ("A Moorish Captain") by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565. This tightly constructed work revolves around four central characters: Othello, a Moorish b0ss in the Venetian army; his beloved wife, Desdemona; his loyal lieutenant, Cassio; and his trusted but unfaithful ensign, Iago.
  
  
  • King Lear
        A tragedy by William Shakespeare in which the titular character descends into madness after disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all.
  
  
  
  • Macbeth
        A tragedy written by William Shakespeare, and is considered one of his darkest and most powerful works. Set in Scotland, the play illustrates the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake.
    
   

•  Caesar, Caesarian

Caesar
  A Roman statesman, general and notable author of Latin prose.

Caesarian

• Sound and Sense  by Alexander Pope
• Auld Lang Syne
  A Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song.
• A Red, Red Rose
  

  O my Luve's like a red, red rose
  That’s newly sprung in June;
  O my Luve's like the melodie
  That’s sweetly play'd in tune.
  
  As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
  So deep in luve am I:
  And I will luve thee still, my dear,
  Till a’ the seas gang dry:
  
  Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
  And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:
  I will luve thee still, my dear,
  While the sands o’ life shall run.
  
  And fare thee weel, my only Luve
  And fare thee weel, a while!
  And I will come again, my Luve, Tho’ it were ten thousand mile.

  fare thee weel - Bye Bye !
• Cupid and psyche butterfly

• You're a character! 你是號人物!! ( 稱讚意味
• L'amant - The lover
• Don't get into mischief! 不要搗蛋喔!

• Amendment
  Clever/cunning/smart

Week15

• Response Paper
  *前後呼應
  3 supporting paragraph
• Classical Unities
  1. unity of action: a play should have one action that it follows, with minimal subplots.
  2. unity of time: the action in a play should occur over a period of no more than 24 hours.
  3. unity of place: a play should exist in a single physical space and should not attempt to compress geography, nor should the stage represent more than one place.
• Thrust Stage
  In theatre, a thrust stage (also known as a platform stage or open stage) is one that extends into the audience on three sides and is connected to the backstage area by its upstage end.

• proscenium stage
  A proscenium  is the area of a theatre surrounding the stage opening. A proscenium arch is the arch over this area.

• Amphitheatre
  An amphitheatre or amphitheater is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and sports. 

• Dionysus (Also known as Bacchus)

Week14

• 18th week - hand in the final paper
• VoiceTube - Think in English !
• Literature(English) emphasis on the text
  Literature(Chinese) emphasis in the source
• Index finger 

• (Respond paper) fist paragraph - Refresh your memory
   narrative - tell a story
• Elegy
  (1) since the Renaissance, usually a formal *lament on the death of a particular person, but focusing mainly on the speaker’s efforts to come to terms with his or her grief; (2) more broadly, any lyric in sorrowful mood that takes death as its primary subject. An example is W. H. Auden’s "In Memory of W. B. Yeats."
  *lament*..... on the death of a particular person
  feel sorry
• Gothic
  Gothic is a subgenre of fiction conventionally featuring plots that involve secrets, mystery, and the supernatural (or the seemingly supernatural) and large, gloomy, and usually antiquated (especially medieval) houses as settings. E.g.  A Rose for Emily.

•  Danaë (a.k.a.Danaë and the Shower of Gold)
   According to Greek mythology known by Titian through Ovid's telling, when Acrisius consulted the oracle on how he would get male children, he was told that his daughter would bear a son who would kill him. Acrisius then locked up and guarded his daughter Danaë in a subterranean dungeon. Danaë, aware of the consequences, allowed herself to be seduced and impregnated by Zeus, who persuaded her to lower her defences by appearing in the form of a shower of gold.

• Meta - 
  a prefix means change, alteration, or alternation: metabolism, metamorphosis.

  Metamorphoses

  
  
•  Io and Prometheus

• literature history

          (reason) 1.Classical period  3.the Renaissance 5.Romantic 7.Modernism 
          (faith)    2.the Medical 4.neoclassical 6.Victorian 8.Postmodernism

• Drop > Drip
• Lapping ( sound )
• Choir , orchestra (CH - about sound
• Doubting Tomas
  Doubting Thomas is a skeptic who refuses to believe without direct personal experience—a reference to the Apostle Thomas, who refused to believe that the resurrected Jesus had appeared to the ten other apostles, until he could see and feel the wounds received by Jesus on the cross.

• Be gay→Be happy