REVENGE!!!!!Buahahahahahahahahah

But seriously, take out a piece of paper for notes.

PREVIEWIs revenge justifiable? Explain your answer.

Look at the painting and record your initial response? How does it make you feel? What do you predict the painting is depicting?

How does this painting reflect the artist’s revenge?

• At the age of 18, the artist was raped by one of her father’s colleagues, Agostino Tassi. He was convicted in a trial a year later after Artemisia was tortured to “confirm” her testimony, but Tassi was never punished. Within months of the conclusion of the trial, Artemisia was quickly married and moved to Florence with her new husband.

• The brutal depiction in the monumental Judith Slaying Holofernes is often interpreted as a painted revenge for the rape. Unlike other artists who focused on the ideals of beauty and courage evoked by the Jewish heroine Judith, Gentileschi chose to paint the biblical story’s gruesome climax, producing a picture that is nothing short of terrifying. As the heroine decapitates Holofernes, the general of King Nebuchadnezzar, to save the Jewish people, her brow is furrowed in concentration, her forearms are tensed, and blood spurts wildly from her victim’s neck.

Why didn’t Gandhi get revenge on the soldier?

Was the boy justified in exacting his revenge? Why?

• Turn to page 92 in your book and independently read the William Blake poem “The Poison Tree.”

• In your small chunking groups, visualize and sketch your section in the margin. Create images that reflect important themes or ideas in your groups section.

What is Blake’s view of revenge?

Home work

• Write a 1 paragraph reflection to either the painting, the song, the film clip, or the poem.