Questions that aid character analysis

create a character profile for fictional characters to support character analysis

Have your students check out these social media posts and create their own. This worksheet can serve as a fun introduction to character analysis.

Create visual help for your character analysis

Look at imaginary playlists and use them to analyze a character. This is a playful way to introduce character analysis to your students.

Objective: Define power, reflect on the connection between power and corruption and analyze a Shakespearean character's descent towards corruption.

Content and Methodology: First, power is contextualized, defined and explored on a personal level. Next, it is applied to a Shakespearean play and analyzed based on excerpts. The findings are displayed in a creative exercise and connected to the modern world.

Skills: Critical thinking, text understanding and analysis, writing and transfer

Target Audience and Level: Advanced grade 10 and higher

Please note: This activity sheet does not include original texts from Shakespeare's tragedies. It is intended as additional material to your in-class reading of a specific Shakespearean tragedy.

Objective: The students critically review the literary concept of a tragic flaw in Shakespearean tragedy and reflect on the inevitability of a character's downfall by applying concepts from modern psychology.

Content and Methodology: This teaching material introduces the concept of the tragic flaw in general and then contextualizes it by asking students to analyze one of Shakespeare's tragedies. The next step is taking the character out of the original setting and into a therapy session in order to reflect on the concept and inevitability of the tragic flaw. At the end, students can choose between two text types to express their learnings and thoughts.

Skills:

• reading comprehension
• analysis
• critical thinking
• reflection
• creativity

Target Audience and Level: Advanced grade 10 and higher

Disclaimer: This activity sheet is by no means intended to ridicule or downplay mental health issues, mental illness, therapy or any aspects connected to them. On the contrary, it is meant to demonstrate the importance of mental health awareness and modern approaches that can be helpful and healing.

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