Hamlet | Class 7: Archetypes (Act 1)

Groups Share Perception/Persuasion Letters

Each group will read their letter to the class. If you chose the mailbox method from Class 6, read several letters aloud to the class from each mailbox.

Literary Device: Archetypes

An archetype is a universal symbol. Ask student if they can think of an example of something that almost everyone would know is a symbol for something else. For example, the color white typically connotes goodness and black usually represents evil.

Other common archetypes and their associations are the following:

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