L1 Lit: Betrayal Scenes 3-5 for Mar. 30

Review scenes 3-5 from Betrayal. If you would like to write for this week, you can respond to one of the two following questions in 250 to 500 words. You can also write 250 to 500 words on how you would stage the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet or a scene from any other English language play that interests you. If you write about staging a different scene, please also provide me a copy of the text.

1. Describe and comment on the way Pinter uses pauses and silence in these three scenes.

2. Some of you in class today discussed how important friendship with Robert is for Jerry. Do scenes 3, 4, and 5 change or comfirm Jerry's attitude towards friendship that we saw today in scenes 1 and 2? Has time altered the way he thinks about friendship with Robert?

For poetry scansion, here are the responses for the lines I posted last week:

"TIGER, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night," From William Blake's "Tiger" Trochaic Trimeter with Masculin Ending

"But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon
Who is already sick and pale with grief
That thou, her maid art far more fair than she" From Romeo and Juliet Blank verse

"Here we go off on the London and Birmingham
Bidding adieu to the foggy metropolis" Dactylic tetrameter

"Come live with me and be my love Iambic tetrameter
And we will all the pleasures prove" From Christopher Marlow's"The Passionate Shepard to His Love"

And here are some more passages for practice. I will post the answers before next Monday so that you can check them before the retest on Tuesday.

"Nicholas Jonathan pacified Malachai Mulligun
That was a match for a title that nobody justified" from "Catcheur's Dream" by T.M. Defordy

"Am I strong?
Could I start a fight
And win?
With a black teen
In Brownsville?

I'm in my late youth;
It still feels like all there is.

I remember times when I felt strong" from an untitled poem by Victor Z. King a comtemporary American poet

"Had I your tongues and eyes, I’d use them so

That heaven’s vault should crack. She’s gone forever.

I know when one is dead and when one lives.

She’s dead as earth. Lend me a looking-glass" from King Lear

"Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble." from Macbeth

For the retest you will be allowed again to use a dictionary. I've put the answers lower on the page so that you can practice without seeing them and then check your answers.



















T.M Defordy- Dactylic Pentameter
Victor Z. King- Free verse
Romeo and Juliet- Blank Verse or unrhymed iambic pentameter
Macbeth- Trochaic Tetrameter