LTRE 421 DeVry Week 5 Discussion
LTRE 421 DeVry Week 5 Discussion LTRE421 LTRE 421 DeVry Week 5 Discussion LTRE 421 DeVry Week 5 Discussion 1 Revenge Drama and Pleasure (graded) Consider the value and role of aesthetics in art? Do modern works of literature or art accomplish aesthetic goals? Does Elizabethan drama accomplish aesthetic goals? For example, let's examine the imagery in Hamlet. What images does Shakespeare use, and how do they provide welcome or dreaded visuals for the audience? Consider Hamlet’s lines, for example: • Nay, but to live • In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, • Stew’d in corruption, honeying and making love • Over the nasty sty… What is Shakespeare trying to tell us about Gertrude and Claudius? Can you find other images that signal us to think or feel a certain way?
