ENGLISH 10 DAY 18. HOUSEKEEPING Things Fall Apart Books: Do you have it? Otherwise, I will have to charge you for this book! Books due next class! Pass.

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Things Fall Apart Books: Do you have it? Otherwise, I will have to charge you for this book!

Books due next class!

Pass back papers!

OBJECTIVES

Make inferences and predictions about how characters, conflicting motivations, and character relationships will advance the plot.

Preview the play by understanding background information about tragedy and Sophocles’ Theban plays.

SOPHOCLES

Tragedy

ANTIGONE

Greek Theater

• Born in 496 BC- Lived to be 90.

• From Colonus-was born into a wealthy family.

• One of three great Greek tragic playwrights.

• Won his 1st award at age 28

• Wrote during the “Golden Age.”-wrote over 100 plays. Only seven remain.

• Realistic and grim

• 123 Dramas

• Added 3rd characters- Before this, all dramas were played with only two characters

• Entered his plays into contests- awarded first place 20 times and second place all others.

• Scene painting. Skilled in music.

WHO IS SOPHOCLES?

Take notes!

WHAT IS TRAGEDY?

Video

Take notes!!!

GREEK THEATRE• Tragedies were produced as part of a religious festival every

year in Athens.

• Awards were given to the playwright who presented the best series of three dramas.

• Plays were performed in vast outdoor amphitheaters that could seat 40,000

• All actors were men. They wore masks with built-in megaphones so they could be heard. Actors’ movements were bold and definite.The stage was a slightly raised platform.

• Violent action took place offstage; messengers told the audience what had happened.

• Choral Ode= The part of a Greek play usually chanted (or sung) in unison

• Hypokrites= Greek word for actor

GREEK THEATRE (C0NT.)

The Chorus—a group of actors who moved and sang together—acted as one character and spoke in unison during the Choral Odes, which separated the scenes of drama.

Greek theater incorporated unities of time, place, and action, which meant that there were no scene changes, and no complicated subplots; the plays took place in one day and in one place and focused on once event.

The audience knew the story ahead of time. The emotion of the characters is what they came to see.

THE “GREATEST THEATRE”--EPIDAURUS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CVO9Vd067U

BACKGROUND: ANTIGONE

1. Prezi

2. Video

Take notes!!

REVIEW MAIN POINTS OF OEDIPUS

Oedipus: Son of Jocasta and Lais. Sent away to be raised by Polybus and Merope. Accidentally fulfills his fate of _______________________________________________

Has four children: Antigone, Ismene, Polyneices, and Eteocles. Not only are they his children… but they are also his ______. (ew again!)

REVIEW MAIN POINTS OF OEDIPUS

The oracle reveals that a ________ is on Thebes because they were harboring a pollutant, or one who killed his own father

Upon finding out what had happened, Jocasta ____________ and Oedipus __________, blinding himself.

He then goes into _____and gives power to his two sons to share.

BEGINNING OF THE PLAY ANTIGONE

Polyneices and Eteocles agree to share rule when they are old enough

Eteocles refuses to give up rule when it is his turn to do so.

Polyneices leads an assault on Thebes in retaliation, and the two brothers murder each other in the process.

Uncle Creon (Jocasta’s brother) takes over as king.

CREON’S DECREE:

Eteocles will be buried with honors because he died defending his kingdom.

Polyneices will be left to rot in the open so that birds will eat his corpse and he will die a dishonorable death because he attacked his own kingdom.

This goes against the rules of the gods. Antigone believes he should have a proper

burial and has to find a way to make it happen.

And so it begins…

ANTIGONE WARM-UP

What would you do?

Write in complete and thorough sentences!