Character Charting The Tempest

Guiding Questions

Opening

Respond to the unit’s Guiding Questions.

  • What role do national identity, custom, religion, and other locally held beliefs play in a world increasingly characterized by globalization?
  • How does Shakespeare’s view of human rights compare with that in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
  • Who is civilized? Who decides what civilization is or how it’s defined?
  • How do we behave toward and acknowledge those whose culture is different from our own?

Open Notebook

Discuss your responses with your classmates.