Meleager story line justification/analysis

So Cameron and Rebecca showed me the error in my blogging ways.  My blogger was about 2 years old. I now can put videos directly into my blog, like what I've wanted to do this entire time.... sad that it's at the end of the semester. Forgive me if there are still some technical errors I'm still getting used to it all.

So Rebecca and I sat down on Monday and analyzed two Shakespearean assassinations that would lend to our story. We analyzed Julius Caesar's death and also the death of Hector in Troilus and Cressida. These are the notes on structure/ and or human behavior with murder that we saw in these scenes

Julius Caesar

1) Uncertainty/ fear of being found out by murderers
2) suspiciously high praise to the man they are going to kill
3) Sealing the deal (aka the "stabbity death") [ha ha name that reference]
4) Instant pronouncement of the deceased's death to the public
5) Reaffirming one another and a strong command to stand together

Hector
A) Hector is without armor
B) Achilles strikes Hector down mercilessly
C) Achilles swears vengeance on Troy

So while thinking about our story we decided to take these elements and combine both of them into our story of a scene in act 4 of Meleager, but with one key difference. We wanted to play the dipole with a few of the attributes of these scenes to make it more authentic, cause Shakespeare would never write the same fight scene twice!



So here's our story so far. Rebecca is writing out specific dialogue to match the story line. every time you see a letter or number in parentheses, look to the notes on the other two plays to see how they coincide :)

ACT 4
Meleager gives the Calydonian Boar skin to Atalanta as a prize for striking the beast first.

In the passing of the skin, her disguise is revealed.

(1) Plexippus and Toxues (Meleager's brother and uncle) fear being sentenced to death for not telling the officials of the hunt about Atalanta being a girl. Punishment for both would be being thrown off a cliff. So they plan to kill her for the council to get out of being punished.

Meleager stands up to them because of his adulterous love for Atalanta

(2) Iphicles and Eurypylus start praising Meleager for being such a noble man while inching over towards Atalanta, whom they take hostage.

Atalanta drives an arrow shaft into the leg of Eurypylus and pushes away Iphicles. Iphicles starts running as soon as Euriponditis pursues him. Exeunt both men.

Plexippus and Toxeus go after Atalanta again and they knock her out to prevent her from causing more damage. (A) Meleager is trying to stop them the entire time while completely unarmed. (B)After trying to talk them out of murdering her while she's unconscious  he Kills both Plex and Tox. (reverse B, 3, &4) Meleager gives mercy to Eurypylus and lets him go after swearing him to a pact never to reveal the identity of Atalanta as the stranger who entered the competition.

Meleager then follows after Euriponditis

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Next scene

Iphicles enters and hides from Euriponditis who enters very quickly after.

Iphicles swears that he won't tell a soul about Atalanta, but Euri doesn't believe him.

Battle ensues

(3) Iphicles falls

enter Meleager

Euri worries about the word getting out that he killed Iphicles since a lot of people suspect that Euri is in love with Iphicles's wife, Chloe.

(5) Meleager tells Euriponditis to man up and stand tall because Meleager will just blame the whole thing on Iphicles trying to steal the boar hide, and that Meleager killed him for stealing such a prized possession.






Yup, that's what we've got so far! It makes me wonder if we should have based it after all the confusion in Hamlet, or Macbeth though. I really like what we came up with though. It makes for some cool plot progression!