1. March 4 – Act 3 Scene 4 Agenda: Turn in your Act 3 journals
Quick-write
Critical Perspectives in 3:4
3:4 on film
Homework:
Study for the Act 3 test
Take out:
Act 3
Notebook
Highlighter
Act 3 journals

2. Quick-write How do you feel when you fight with your parents?
What emotions are expressed?
Do you expect to see similar emotions in this scene? Why/why not?

3. Critical Perspectives - Reminder
Feminist Perspective:
Gender roles
Relationships & power dynamics between men and women
Male vs. Female perspective
Marxist Perspective:
Influence of social, political and economic structures and expectations
The struggle for power
Superior and Subordinate relationships
Psychoanalytical Perspective:
Repressed desires & Oedipal/Electra complex
Representation of psychosexual development
Demonstration of neuroses or psychoses

4. Critical Perspectives & 3:4
Read through Act 3, Scene 4 (page ) with your group, applying your assigned critical lens to the reading.
Look for specific lines that could lend to a connotative understanding of the work based on the perspective you’ve been assigned.
Consider how the work changes, or is given a new/different meaning, when considered through your given lens.
Be prepared to share with the class.

5. On Film
For a director, reading the play through a lens will often lead to specific and sometimes controversial directorial decisions. View the scene and decide which lens is the best fit to apply to the scene: Marxism (Who holds power?), Feminism (gender roles?), or Psychoanalytic (Oedipus Complex). Think about how each perspective applies to the scene.