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Critical Theory Proposal:
King Lear / Macbeth Theory Paper Proposal
Proposal Details
1. Critical Theory: Which theory have you focused on while reading King Lear / MacBeth?
Psychological Criticism
2. Focus: What is the subject (e.g., madness, power, identity) of your paper?
How the influencing of the witches and Macbeth’s wife moved him to take the throne for himself.
3. Organization: How will you organize your paper?
Cornell Notes
Google documents
4. Development: What evidence, details, examples, or key quotations will you use to support and illustrate your main idea?
What unconscious factors are influencing the character’s development or actions? What unconscious factors of others are affecting the main characters?
5. Purpose: What are you trying to achieve in this paper?
To illustrate the connections between Macbeth and Psychological criticism.
6. So What? What is the So what? about your paper? What are you trying to say and why should we find it so interesting or important? Why should we care?
We are trying to expose the factors that have caused the main character to make the decisions in which they have, and what unconscious factors within themselves have developed to further those actions.
Music ideas:
Madness- Muse
All the Madmen- David Bowie
King Lear / Macbeth Theory Paper Proposal
Proposal Details
1. Critical Theory: Which theory have you focused on while reading King Lear / MacBeth?
Psychological Criticism
2. Focus: What is the subject (e.g., madness, power, identity) of your paper?
How the influencing of the witches and Macbeth’s wife moved him to take the throne for himself.
3. Organization: How will you organize your paper?
Cornell Notes
Google documents
4. Development: What evidence, details, examples, or key quotations will you use to support and illustrate your main idea?
What unconscious factors are influencing the character’s development or actions? What unconscious factors of others are affecting the main characters?
5. Purpose: What are you trying to achieve in this paper?
To illustrate the connections between Macbeth and Psychological criticism.
6. So What? What is the So what? about your paper? What are you trying to say and why should we find it so interesting or important? Why should we care?
We are trying to expose the factors that have caused the main character to make the decisions in which they have, and what unconscious factors within themselves have developed to further those actions.
Music ideas:
Madness- Muse
All the Madmen- David Bowie