Shortened Class
1. Warming up: Are you an existentialist?
- High velocity writing on a few existentialist quotations: background on existentialism
As we read, mark up your text in search of the following:
- What is the existentialist hero?
- What is the nature of his struggle?
- What makes him tragic?
- What makes him happy?
- What is the nature of his freedom?
Post-reading discussion questions:
- How are Vladimir and Estragon like Sisyphus?
- How are they different? How does the absurd hero differ from the existentialist hero?
3. Considering yourself an existential hero (or not)
- What does your mountain consist of? What about your boulder? Your endless sky?
- What makes you pause at the top, and what do you think of?
- What makes you pause at the bottom, and what do you think of?
- What compels you to push the boulder up the hill once again?
OR
- Go back to Monday's blog and add to the discussion by incorporating some of the background we considered today.
HW:
Continue drafting your culminating essay. Next Wednesday will be a workshop day, and you want to have at least three pages of draft complete by then. If you e-mailed me/Google shared with me your outline, you should have feedback waiting for you on the document.
Final draft due Thursday, April 24 by 3:00 pm.
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