ENG 125 Week 3

ENG 125  Week 3 Assignment
Individual Assignment:
OPTION 1, Creative Writing:
Write a fiction short story (5-10 pages in length) that is a modern adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Make sure that you include modern equivalents of the main characters, and use symbolism and imagery as necessary to create a similar effect as in Hamlet. Have fun with this, and be creative!
OPTION 2, Analyzing Hamlet as a Tragedy
Discuss the following:
Explain the strategies you think Shakespeare used to convey a particular idea and the literary conventions and devices that Hamlet includes. (5-6 sentences)
How can seeing a live performance influence your reading of a drama? Does reading the drama before or after the live performance enhance or detract from the experience? Why? How is this similar to watching a movie version of a book before reading the book? (3-5 sentences)
Why are heroic characters so important to a tragedy? How does a specific character influence the work and how was a moral lesson conveyed through that character? (5-8 sentences)
How does drama illustrate particular societal behaviors? (3-5 sentences)
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