How To Remake Keith Into A Shakespearean Tragedy

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To remake “Keith” into a Shakespearean Tragedy I would first make more chance happenings occur between Keith and Barbara before they become lab partners. Adding more chance happenings to “Keith” would give the story more depth and history to help explain more of the ending and why she agreed to meet him at all these different places when he was, considered to her and her posse “an oddball”. The second area I will look at is the internal conflict Barbara, Keith and Brian will develop. I will, to make it more of a tragedy, make Barbara feel more internal conflict over Keith and what that means for her. These changes would make “Keith” more unpredictable and establish a foundation for the story to build off of, instead of an abrupt beginning and a feeling of an incomplete conclusion. The steps I would take to add more chance happenings is in the beginning of “Keith” is I would have changed Keith’s social life, so instead of him being an oddball he would be the captain of the swimming team. Another change in “Keith” I would make is …show more content…
The night before Keith and Brian’s swim meet Barbara struggles whether or not she should tell Keith he is the father or whether or not to just keep the baby a secret. Barbara will then feel grief over how Keith died and how her baby will now grow up fatherless. Brian will feel at first regret and then slightly relieved that he “accidently” left water on the dive board before the swim meet. The conflict that Keith feels is that when he gets named captain of the swim team he feels torn about whether or not he should give up the captain spot to Brian who has had the spot for 3 years or to respect the team’s decision and rightfully take the place as

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