Objectives, Superobjectives, and Beat Changes

Objective – What the character is trying to accomplish during a scene.   What do they want? How are they trying to get it?

Beat Change – When a character changes tactics in trying to achieve their goal, or when a character has met their goal and sets a new one.

Superobjective – What the character is trying to accomplish by the end of the whole play.  Objectives feed into the superobjective

Examine the following characters, and determine their objectives in I.i:

1.    Hermia

2.    Egeus

3.    Helena

Examine the following characters, and determine their superobjectives:

1.    Oberon

2.    Titania

How do you know what the objectives and superobjectives are?  What text evidence leads you to your ideas about character objectives and superobjectives?  Remember, all analysis needs to be supported by text evidence!