You are to write a paper tracing Shakespeare’s use of one motif (a minor recurrent theme or pattern of imagery)) in relation to the play’s characters, themes and structure. Your essay will not be due until after the completion of the play but, as soon as you can, select your motif from those below and inform me. Then you can begin focusing on your motif as we read the play. The essay should follow the basic format (introduction, body, conclusion), and it should be approximately two to three pages. Remember to use proper verse quotation format (see website) and to cite the play as follows: I. iii, 3-5 (not Act 1, Scene 3, lines 3-5).
Motifs
- Feasting/drinking
- Water/cleansing
- Disease/madness
- Salvation/redemption
- Manhood/womanhood
- Dissembling/equivocation
- Animals/beasts
- Fear/bravery
- Clothing
- Taunting
- Young/old
- Innocence/corruption
- Nurturing
- Gold/golden
- Reversal
- Paralysis/Action
- Appearances
- Planting/growth
- Incantations
- Dark/light
- Good/evil
- Blood
- Stars/heavens
- Sleep
- War
- Serpents
- Birds
- Disorder
- Family
- Disloyalty/betrayal
- Temptation
- Kingship
- Fortune
- Murder
- Honor
- Hospitality
- Fire
- Vacillation
- Ambition
- Devils/angels
- Hands/eyes
- Heaven/hell
- Sight/blindness
UPDATE: The Motif Paper has been changed to a
Motif Presentation, to be presented on March 23 and 25.
since 9/18/09
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