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Wednesday, May 2, 2007


   ignore: I have to make up and AP English Language Essay
Photobucket - Video and Image HostingAP-style free-response Essay & Outline

In “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,” Tom Stoppard gives the reader many references to death. In a well written essay discuss and analyze key events in the play which foreshadows the inevitable deaths of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

Thesis:

Clear and focuses on question

Body:

The title “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” tell us what we are to expect for the protagonists.

Prior knowledge of reading “Hamlet” gives insight to the characters inevitable death.

Act I: They first start to discuss how nails and beard continue to grow even after one is dead.

The player says he recognizes them as “fellow artists” or actors. Meaning their lines have been written for them and it will happen as it is written, whether or not they know it or like it. This analyzes the inevitability of what they do to the results they will get.

Act II: Tragedians put on a play which contains two characters as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern wearing their cloaks, the two characters are killed.

Act III: The letter that said they should be killed.

Conclusion: Summarizes what was said in the thesis.

The essay should contain some of the examples listed on top and how they foreshadow the end result.

Language should be clear, focused and easy to read and understand.

Essay should demonstrate an understanding of events that foreshadows the deaths of the two characters.

Not just an explanation but analysis of examples from the book as well as prior knowledge of the book or characters.

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