Renaissance Flashcards
Renaissance
-Humanistic ideas
-Get rid of religion
William Shakespeare
-(1564-1616)
-most important writers of literature
-genres like comedy, drama and tragedy
General characteristics of Shakespeare plays
-past of the protagonist
-hero dies and his future is destroy
-the innocents suffer
Themes of plays of Shakespeare
Love, hate, greed, jealousy, evil, justice, revenge
Can be classified:
-Tragedy (Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet)
-Comedy (midsummer nights dream, merchant of Venice)
-historical dramas (Henry IV, VIII, and Richard III)
The narrator of the story…
Is not the author 😛
The author is a real person and the narrator is a character
Narrator
The one who tells the story, deciding what to say and hide
Narrator the protagonist
-First person
-the main character
-subjective
Secondary character narration
-Telling what he saw
-Part of the story
Omniscient narrator
-Know all about characters, pasts, thoughts
-knows the future
Second narrator
-less used
-speaking to the reader directly
-rayis
Main character
-protagonist
-Focus point
Secondary character
-important to the story but not that important
-helps to achieve goals
Incidental
-appears only once
-has a particular purpose
-can’t or can influence the protagonist
Environmental
-Helps to place where the story is unfolding
Static
-does not change
-doesn’t learn anything
