Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Hamlet Blog Post #2: Revenge Stories

In your second blogging assignment, you need to both write/publish a post with the following requirements AND write/publish at least 3 insightful and detailed comments as responses to your classmates' blog posts that appear below on this page. The requirements:
  • The title of your post should be the name of the revenge story you're connecting Hamlet to.
  • A quote from Hamlet (in Act 2 or 3) that reminds you of the theme of "revenge" or something else from the story you're connecting to Hamlet.
  • A brief explanation of the connections you find between your quote and your revenge story and between the story of Hamlet and your revenge story (use specific events/characters to prove your point).
  • Ask two open-ended questions about the theme of revenge that relate to any characters, events, and/or quote that you have mentioned in your post.
  • A vocab word from your quote OR from the scene your quote came from.
  • After you publish, don't forget to comment on 3 blog posts!
Here are some revenge stories that you may be familiar with that you can connect to Hamlet for your blog post (all of which you can look up for more info here):

Spider-Man, Death Sentence, The Brave One, Gladiator, The Italian Job, Mystic River, Man on Fire, Braveheart, Four Brothers, V for Vendetta, Kill Bill, The Crow, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Punisher, We Own the Night, Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Oldboy, Taken, Friday the 13th, Death Wish, The Godfather