Relationship Assignment

Analyzing a relationship:

Steps:

1.     Create a one-page character chart.

1.     Find every character in The Importance of Being Earnest.

2.     Create a chart that shows how each character is linked to the others in the play. (If there is no connection, do not draw a line)

3.      Example 

2.     Pick a relationship from your chart and find 4 moments in the play that best illustrate the narrative arc of their relationship.  USE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION TO STRUCTURE YOUR PAPER.

1.     4 moments = four paragraphs. Each paragraph will dissect the scene

1.     ex: Jack and Algy eating muffins in the garden.

1.     list the action

2.     discuss the dialogue

3.     Is this scene exposition, rising action or resolution? What role does each character play? where is it set? what conflict does this scene introduce/resolve?

2.     each act must be represented (3 acts). Each section of the narrative arc must be represented (3 sections).

THE NARRATIVE ARC
Many plays today are written in three acts because the pattern reflects the three-stage nature of the traditional narrative arc: Exposition ------ Rising Action ------ Resolution

1. Exposition
1. In section one of a narrative, viewers are exposed to information that will later be necessary for them to have if they are to understand the unfolding story. It is no surprise, then, that this segment of the narrative is called the Exposition phase of the tale wherein the reader is exposed to some important information. Exposition primarily consists of these elements: 
1. Characters:  
1. protagonists, antagonists?
2. hero, antihero?
3. flat or round? 
4. static or dynamic? 
5. Foil?
2. Setting: 
1. Time: can refer to time of day, time of year, even time in the chronology of the life of the individual. 
2. Place: the geographic backdrop against which the characters are placed and the physical world in which they exist. 
3. Social climate: Class of people, social circles, culture...
3. Mood: 
1.  Often, the descriptive elements that surface early in a story establish a mood that can foreshadow the events of the story. Thus, a reader might leave the opening passages — the exposition phase of the tale — expecting suspense or lightheartedness or dire peril. A filmgoer may notice specific lighting, settings, or visual and auditory elements that suggest that mood.
2. Rising Action: 
1.  In this section of the story, complications emerge and eventually, a dominant conflict becomes clear. The range of conflicts looks like this: 
1. Man vs. Man
2. Man vs. Nature
3. Man vs. Self
4. Man vs. Society
5. Man vs. Technology
6. Man vs. Alter Ego
3. Resolution 
1. As the story draws to a close, the Narrative Arc descends into the realm of Resolution. 
1.  This essential question is usually answered: 
1. How did the relationship resolve/survive conflict? 
1. Comic resolution: The conflict is resolved favourably for the relationship; it is better off than when the tale began.
2. Tragic resolution: The conflict is one in which the relationship loses ground. The relationship is worse off than when the tale began.
3. Linear resolution: Despite the ensuing complications and conflicts, the relationship is largely unchanged by the events of the story.
4. Dénouement: In some tales, a portion of the story at the end is devoted to tying up the loose ends.

Final product: 

Due: See Calendar

Hand in: 

1.     character chart

2.     600 w, MLA analysis