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 'NIGHT MOTHER
Week #2 |
Eyes, look your last!
-William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
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Part I: Aristotelian Analysis
- What is the inciting incident?
- What is the point of attack?
- Where is the end of the exposition?
- Any foreshadowing? Discovery? Complications? Reversals?
- What is the significance of Jessie saying "Jesus was a suicide" (p. 1261)?
- What are the play's crisis, climax and denouement?
- Does the play adhere to unity of time, place, and action?
Part II: Questions to Amplify and Aristotelian Analysis
- Whose play is it?
- What is the significance of the opening stage directions?
- What is the significance of the name symbolism (Thelma, Jessie, Rickie, Cecil, Agnes, Loretta, Carlene)?
- What are the parallels and contrasts among the characters, such as:
- similarities between
- Jessie and her father
- Rickie and Jessie
- differences between
- Jessie and her mother
- Mama and her husband
- Agnes and Jessie
What is the significance of the following motifs?
- candy
- clocks
- pipe cleaners
How do everyday events and activities mirror the deeper psychological activities such as:
- the struggle to put on the slipcover
- taking out the garbage
- folding laundry
- washing hands
- attempting a manicure
What is the significance of the title?
What are the symbols and/or dramatic irony concerning:
- gunsmoke
- Agnes' burning house
- Loretta getting a calculator
- Jessie's suicide
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