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Analyzing Theme and Symbol in Gorboduc

This theme analysis outline explores various aspects of The Tragedie of Gorboduc (or Ferrex and Porrex). The student takes a look at themes of unity, power, politics, bloodshed and violence, revenge, and wisdom. The student also works with symbols as they relate to the themes.
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Bridget's feedback:

"You make good use of textual details to support the broader observations related to theme, and overall, this looks like good material for a fuller essay down the line. My first comment is to note that frequent errors, including misspellings, sentence boundary issues, and diction, as well as dropped words and other typos, makes it pretty hard to follow the ideas. Even in prewriting tasks where informality or succinctness can be of benefit, it doesn't hurt to attend to mechanics, so I recommend tidying this up in that regard.

As a second comment, I encourage you to push each theme analysis further, seeing if you can locate a message or stance on the respective topic. For example, under "Bloodshed," you list details from the plot showing that there is quite a bit of bloodshed: do you have any preliminary thoughts on what, per those details, the play is "saying" about bloodshed?"

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