Monday, March 26, 2012

March 26-30

Hamlet

Agree or disagree on the following and discuss:

1. Revenge is sweet.
2. It is wrong to kill another human being for any reason.
3. Hatred is a useless emotion.
4. There is no such thing as pure evil.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

March 5-9

Time

Discuss how "To His Coy Mistress" and "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" deal with the pressure and constraints of time. How does Marvell use the words "coy" and "mistress"? Is that different from how we use those words today? Do Marvell's graphic and disturbing images of death help or hurt his argument of seduction? How is Herrick's argument perhaps more sincere than Marvell's?