Both essay assignments should be submitted to Turnitin by 11:59 pm on December 19th. You will have some reading due during the week next week, so make sure you make progress on the essays this weekend.
Kane Device Analysis
Please write a 2 page minimum (typed, double-spaced) reflection paper on the use of a minimum of 3 film techniques in Citizen Kane. Please describe the specific effect and analyze how its use contributes to the meaning of the film. There are no structural requirements for the paper, but the paper should be written in formal voice.
Kane Character Analysis Paper
You are writing a character analysis paper focusing on Charles Foster Kane. Again, it will be in formal voice, 2 pages, double-spaced, but no structure requirements. Consider discussing Kane's influences, motivations, desires, fears, relationships with others, etc. Do your best to use some quotations from the movie
Friday, December 13, 2013
Friday, December 6, 2013
Due Monday
Please complete a "prose prospectus" for the passage from "Middlemarch" and the passage from "Belinda". The frame for a prospectus is below, followed by an example I typed up from "The Other Paris."
Prose Prospectus Frame:
Title and Author of Passage:
Approximate Era of Passage: Victorian, Modern, Contemporary, etc
New Vocabulary: Write down fancy new words from the passage and their definitions.
Restatement of Prompt as Question:
Devices you would mention in your essay: Remember, these do not have to be full paragraph topics, but just an appropriate literary word that you could use in your essay.
Answer to the prompt question as thesis/poa: This is your actual thesis statement.
Key Quotations for support You may either retype these quotations OR turn in a highlighted, underlined, copy of the text indicating which quotations you would use.
One Analytical Unit: This should be an excerpt from your essay that uses a targeted quotation(s) and says important stuff about it. Try to sound insightful, fancy, and make good inferences.
My Example:
Title and Author of Passage: “The Other Paris” by Mavis Gallant
Approximate Era of Passage: Modern
New Vocabulary: none (it was a pretty simple passage.)
Restatement of Prompt as Question: What is the specific social commentary?
Devices you would mention in your essay: Characterization, Narrative Voice, imagary Irony, Satire, Diction, point of view.
Answer to the prompt question as thesis/poa: Gallant presents a scathing criticism of passionless and depersonalized expectations of marriage based on social convenience and money through her use of characterization and ironic narrative voice.
Key Quotations for support: I think you know what I want for this.
One Analytical Unit: Gallant begins with an ironic contrast between the idyllic imagery of Carol’s imagined proposal, replete with “moonlight”, “barrows of violets”, “misty backgrounds”, and that most iconic of Romantic images the “Eifel tower”, juxtaposed with the prosaic reality of being proposed to at lunch over a “tuna-fish salad.” The disparity of these two images, strengthened by the olfactory unpleasantness of a smelly and boring lunch option, creates from the beginning an air of ridiculousness the permeates the passage, letting the reader know that Carol and Howard’s relationship is subject of her critical ridicule.
Prose Prospectus Frame:
Title and Author of Passage:
Approximate Era of Passage: Victorian, Modern, Contemporary, etc
New Vocabulary: Write down fancy new words from the passage and their definitions.
Restatement of Prompt as Question:
Devices you would mention in your essay: Remember, these do not have to be full paragraph topics, but just an appropriate literary word that you could use in your essay.
Answer to the prompt question as thesis/poa: This is your actual thesis statement.
Key Quotations for support You may either retype these quotations OR turn in a highlighted, underlined, copy of the text indicating which quotations you would use.
One Analytical Unit: This should be an excerpt from your essay that uses a targeted quotation(s) and says important stuff about it. Try to sound insightful, fancy, and make good inferences.
My Example:
Title and Author of Passage: “The Other Paris” by Mavis Gallant
Approximate Era of Passage: Modern
New Vocabulary: none (it was a pretty simple passage.)
Restatement of Prompt as Question: What is the specific social commentary?
Devices you would mention in your essay: Characterization, Narrative Voice, imagary Irony, Satire, Diction, point of view.
Answer to the prompt question as thesis/poa: Gallant presents a scathing criticism of passionless and depersonalized expectations of marriage based on social convenience and money through her use of characterization and ironic narrative voice.
Key Quotations for support: I think you know what I want for this.
One Analytical Unit: Gallant begins with an ironic contrast between the idyllic imagery of Carol’s imagined proposal, replete with “moonlight”, “barrows of violets”, “misty backgrounds”, and that most iconic of Romantic images the “Eifel tower”, juxtaposed with the prosaic reality of being proposed to at lunch over a “tuna-fish salad.” The disparity of these two images, strengthened by the olfactory unpleasantness of a smelly and boring lunch option, creates from the beginning an air of ridiculousness the permeates the passage, letting the reader know that Carol and Howard’s relationship is subject of her critical ridicule.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Friday, November 22, 2013
Gregor due Monday
Create a beetle and attach the following assignment to him:
5 meaningful adjectives
3 significant quotations from the story
1 picture of symbolic importance
1 poem (minimum of 5 lines) honoring Gregor's spirit
1 philosophical, thought provoking question for us to ponder.
5 meaningful adjectives
3 significant quotations from the story
1 picture of symbolic importance
1 poem (minimum of 5 lines) honoring Gregor's spirit
1 philosophical, thought provoking question for us to ponder.
Friday, November 15, 2013
Weekend Reading
Due Monday: "Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor.
Focus Topic: Characters sometimes go to unusual ends to create a sense of identity for themselves. Consider the various ways that Hulga seeks to define herself and create her self-identity.
Due Wednesday: You may also want to get a head start reading the "Metamorphosis" for Wednesday, since this is a LONG story. (In fact, it's a novella--a little novel!)
Focus Topic: Often, the environment a character experiences has a significant impact on their sense of the world or even their own identity. Find instances in which Gregor's identity is influenced by his reactions to the changing environment around him and consider what this reveals about his character's development.
Both of these stories are in your red anthology.
Focus Topic: Characters sometimes go to unusual ends to create a sense of identity for themselves. Consider the various ways that Hulga seeks to define herself and create her self-identity.
Due Wednesday: You may also want to get a head start reading the "Metamorphosis" for Wednesday, since this is a LONG story. (In fact, it's a novella--a little novel!)
Focus Topic: Often, the environment a character experiences has a significant impact on their sense of the world or even their own identity. Find instances in which Gregor's identity is influenced by his reactions to the changing environment around him and consider what this reveals about his character's development.
Both of these stories are in your red anthology.
Friday, November 8, 2013
Reading Due Wednesday
Reading
“Rose for Emily” 56-62
“The Short Happy Life of Francis MacComber” 258-278
Focus Idea: Commonly in literature, characters feel dissatisfied with their current situation in life. For these two stories, analyze different examples of when characters feel dissatisfied and consider how these feelings contribute to the meaning of the work as a whole.
“Rose for Emily” 56-62
“The Short Happy Life of Francis MacComber” 258-278
Focus Idea: Commonly in literature, characters feel dissatisfied with their current situation in life. For these two stories, analyze different examples of when characters feel dissatisfied and consider how these feelings contribute to the meaning of the work as a whole.
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Reading Due Friday
"Young Goodman Brown" 93-102
Focus Idea: often times in stories, the impression characters have of other people or their behavior is shattered. Write down examples in the story of when Young Goodman Brown has his perceptions of other people destroyed. Make sure to include thoughts on why having this perception destroyed is important.
Focus Idea: often times in stories, the impression characters have of other people or their behavior is shattered. Write down examples in the story of when Young Goodman Brown has his perceptions of other people destroyed. Make sure to include thoughts on why having this perception destroyed is important.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Reading Due Thurdsay
"Yellow Wallpaper" 153-164
Focus Idea: Frequently in literature, characters experience a loss of power. Write down examples from the story of how the female narrator lacks power. Make sure to include your thoughts on why her losing or lacking power is important to the meaning of the story.
College Essay Info:
Your College Essay will be due on Friday of next week. Here is the formal assignment information:
You must select a topic for either an admissions essay or a scholarship essay. Your prompt must allow for a topic that can produce an essay of at least 300-400 words. (Therefore, for many of you, short answer questions will not count.) Please do not include an essay that is significantly longer than 800 words. If possible, choose a prompt that is narrative nature, although if this is not helpful for your actual school, and more expository prompt can do.
If you need a prompt, go online to the Common Application site, or search for a possible scholarship topic.
You must retype the prompt at the top of the page. Then include the text of your essay and a word count. When you turn yours in, you can request comments if you're interested.
Please use this assignment as an opportunity to explore elements of "great" and not merely "good" writing.
Focus Idea: Frequently in literature, characters experience a loss of power. Write down examples from the story of how the female narrator lacks power. Make sure to include your thoughts on why her losing or lacking power is important to the meaning of the story.
College Essay Info:
Your College Essay will be due on Friday of next week. Here is the formal assignment information:
You must select a topic for either an admissions essay or a scholarship essay. Your prompt must allow for a topic that can produce an essay of at least 300-400 words. (Therefore, for many of you, short answer questions will not count.) Please do not include an essay that is significantly longer than 800 words. If possible, choose a prompt that is narrative nature, although if this is not helpful for your actual school, and more expository prompt can do.
If you need a prompt, go online to the Common Application site, or search for a possible scholarship topic.
You must retype the prompt at the top of the page. Then include the text of your essay and a word count. When you turn yours in, you can request comments if you're interested.
Please use this assignment as an opportunity to explore elements of "great" and not merely "good" writing.
Friday, November 1, 2013
For Monday
Please read "The Battle of the Ants" by Thoreau in your textbook. (1558-1560)
Also, please print and bring the following college essay handout.
Also, please print and bring the following college essay handout.
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Due Thursday
Read Swift's a "Modest Proposal" (1558-1593). Look for and analyze the terms we discussed today in class.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Some Modernism Readings
The Second Coming 683
Fire and Ice 695
Acquainted with the Night 699
Spring and all 705
Danse Russe 707
Ars Poetica 729
Ars Poetica 730
Anyone live in a… 733
The Word 748
Constantly Risking Absurdity 770
Fire and Ice 695
Acquainted with the Night 699
Spring and all 705
Danse Russe 707
Ars Poetica 729
Ars Poetica 730
Anyone live in a… 733
The Word 748
Constantly Risking Absurdity 770
Friday, September 13, 2013
Weekend Assignment Info
This weekend you should be making progress on your rough draft of your poetry paper. If you still have not completed reading part 2 of the Manifesto, do NOT start on your paper until you have carefully read this document.
Reading Due Tuesday:
Syntax: 465-472 (Black Book: 516-523)
Reading Due Tuesday:
Syntax: 465-472 (Black Book: 516-523)
Thursday, September 12, 2013
1st Essay Poem
Please do your best to finish part 2 of the Manifesto for Friday along with your diction reading.
Here is the poem for your first poetry paper (remember, do not consult any resources online or otherwise) but begin thinking about possible interpretations/devices to analyze. Due date, TBD, but rough draft work day will be next Wednesday.
when serpents bargain for the right to squirm
and the sun strikes to gain a living wage-
when thorns regard their roses with alarm
and rainbows are insured against old age
when every thrush may sing no new moon in
if all screech-owls have not okayed his voice
-and any wave signs on the dotted line
or else an ocean is compelled to close
when the oak begs permission of the birch
to make an acorn-valleys accuse their
mountains of having altitude-and march
denounces april as a saboteur
then we'll believe in that incredible
unanimal mankind(and not until)
e e cummings
Here is the poem for your first poetry paper (remember, do not consult any resources online or otherwise) but begin thinking about possible interpretations/devices to analyze. Due date, TBD, but rough draft work day will be next Wednesday.
when serpents bargain for the right to squirm
and the sun strikes to gain a living wage-
when thorns regard their roses with alarm
and rainbows are insured against old age
when every thrush may sing no new moon in
if all screech-owls have not okayed his voice
-and any wave signs on the dotted line
or else an ocean is compelled to close
when the oak begs permission of the birch
to make an acorn-valleys accuse their
mountains of having altitude-and march
denounces april as a saboteur
then we'll believe in that incredible
unanimal mankind(and not until)
e e cummings
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Reading Due Friday:
Diction (436-444), Voice (427-436)
Reading Due Friday/Monday:
Manifesto Part 2
Prospectus Assignment Info:
Each poem prospectus will consist of the following:
- “Device/Effect T-chart” of a minimum of three different poetry devices, text support for these devices, and their effects the poem. Select a poem from the anthology that we have not thoroughly discussed in class.
- Thesis statement
- Paragraph (approximately 1/2 page). This paragraph will either be an introduction to a hypothetical paper on the selected poem ( background ideas, thesis, poa) or a body paragraph (topic sentence with 3 examples, where, what, how, why, model. )
For the Poetry Prospectus 1-4 Assignment, two of your poems will have an introduction as their paragraphs, and two will have a support paragraph.)
The Prospectus 1-4 assignment is not likely to be due until the second week in October, so please do not panic; you have plenty of time!
Diction (436-444), Voice (427-436)
Reading Due Friday/Monday:
Manifesto Part 2
Prospectus Assignment Info:
Each poem prospectus will consist of the following:
- “Device/Effect T-chart” of a minimum of three different poetry devices, text support for these devices, and their effects the poem. Select a poem from the anthology that we have not thoroughly discussed in class.
- Thesis statement
- Paragraph (approximately 1/2 page). This paragraph will either be an introduction to a hypothetical paper on the selected poem ( background ideas, thesis, poa) or a body paragraph (topic sentence with 3 examples, where, what, how, why, model. )
For the Poetry Prospectus 1-4 Assignment, two of your poems will have an introduction as their paragraphs, and two will have a support paragraph.)
The Prospectus 1-4 assignment is not likely to be due until the second week in October, so please do not panic; you have plenty of time!
Monday, September 9, 2013
Assignments
Read Part 1 of the "Manifesto" for Wednesday.
You should also make sure you have completed your reading of the "Happy Synergy of Interpretation of Analysis".
You should also make sure you have completed your reading of the "Happy Synergy of Interpretation of Analysis".
Friday, May 24, 2013
Friday, May 3, 2013
Open Ended Practice
I'm posting a link to a bunch of open ended prompts if you'd like to use them for your studying purposes. If the link doesn't work, please email me at my school email address and I will try to fix it. DO NOT "request" permission to view the document. Also, if you are having trouble viewing it, try it on a computer instead of a mobile device.
Open Ended Essay Topics
Open Ended Essay Topics
Friday, April 26, 2013
Open Ended Prompt Practice Due Monday
Choose one of the following open ended prompts and write a timed 40 minutes essay (handwritten, testing conditions if possible) that addresses the prompt. You may choose from any novel or play that we have read this year as part of AP English. This will be scored as a completion assignment.
(Feel free to write essays on both prompts if you'd like to be a superstar.)
Option 1
"The true test of comedy is that it shall awaken thoughtful laughter." Choose a novel, play, or long poem in which a scene or character awakens "thoughtful laughter" in the reader. Write an essay in which you show why this laughter is "thoughtful" and how it contributes to the meaning of the work.
Option 2
In retrospect, the reader often discovers that the first chapter of a novel or the opening scene of a drama introduces some of the major themes of the work. Write an essay about the opening scene of a drama or the first chapter of a novel in which you explain how it functions in this way.
(Feel free to write essays on both prompts if you'd like to be a superstar.)
Option 1
"The true test of comedy is that it shall awaken thoughtful laughter." Choose a novel, play, or long poem in which a scene or character awakens "thoughtful laughter" in the reader. Write an essay in which you show why this laughter is "thoughtful" and how it contributes to the meaning of the work.
Option 2
In retrospect, the reader often discovers that the first chapter of a novel or the opening scene of a drama introduces some of the major themes of the work. Write an essay about the opening scene of a drama or the first chapter of a novel in which you explain how it functions in this way.
Friday, April 12, 2013
Chapter 5 Notes
CHAPTER V
178- “the dear knows…” = God knows. The Irish words for “God” and “deer” were the same (Fiadh). To avoid speaking Gods name, deer or in this passage (dear) was used.
going for blue: working as hard as possible (alternatively, "bluing" is used in washing clothes)
180- sloblands: local term for a particular trashy area of tidal flatland
waistcoateers: prostitutes (Elizabethan term)
chambering: wanton sexual indulgence (Elizabethan term)
Synopsis Philosophiae. . .: A Synopsis of Scholastic Philosophy for the Understanding of St. Thomas (Aquinas)
181- MacCann is modeled on a contemporary of Joyces at the university. He was an ardent pacifist, feminist and believer in the possibility of universal peace. He was murdered by a British army officer in 1916.
hoardings: billboards
182- “It was a priestlike face, priestlike in its pallor…” Note the description of Cranly.
183- Ivory, ivoire, avorio, ebur: the same word in English, French, Italian, and Latin.
India mittit ebur: India sends (or produces) ivory
Contrahit orator... vates: "The orator summarizes; the poet [or prophet] amplifies [or transforms]"
in tanto discrimine: "in such a crisis"
implere ollam denariorum: to fill the jar with denarii (Roman silver coins)
184-Firbolgs were believed to be early inhabitants of Ireland, who were later invaded by the more cultivated Milesians.
“Davin” Davin is another student modeled on a contemporary of Joyce. He was a firm believer in resurrecting Gaelic (Celtic) traditions and supported the Gaelic Athletic association and the cause to hold onto the Gaelic (Irish) language. He will address Stephen later in a very casual manner, using his first name. The person on whom Davin was based became Lord Mayor of Limerick, but was murdered by a British army regiment in 1921.
“…curfew was still a nightly fear” curfew was a part of many of the Coercion Acts that were passed by the British for the administration of Ireland. 105 such acts were passed between 1800-1921.
Gael: Irishman or Celt
cycles: related groups of Irish myths and legends
***** tame geese: joke on "the wild geese," term for Irish who went into exile
185- hurling match: Irish game, a sort of field hockey
buff: skin
minding cool: playing safety
woeful wipe: huge blow to the ball
camaun: curved stick used in hurling
aims ace: very small amount or distance
yoke: any artifact
187- handsel: good luck omen or gift; also money, as in a tip
188- levite: subordinate priest
canonicals: prescribed vestments
ephod: Old Testament religious garment
189- Pulchra sunt quae visa placent: "That is beautiful which gives pleasure to the eye"
Bonum est in quod tendit appetitus: "That is good toward which the appetite is moved" [or which is desired]
190- Similiter atque senis baculus: "Like an old mans walking stick"
192- insufflation: breathing on someone or something to symbolize the coming of the Holy Ghost and the banishing of evil
spirits
193- Per aspera ad astra: "By rough ways to the stars" (a cliche )
194- Kentish fire: prolonged stamping or clapping to show impatience or disapproval
197- Closing time, gents!: How the end of legal drinking hours might be announced at a pub
Ego habeo: "I have," in "Dog-Latin," a humorous schoolboy imitation of Latin that translates English words literally and
is scattered throughout the following conversations.
Quod?: "What?"
198- Per pax universalis: "For universal peace"
Credo ut vos. . .estis: "I think you are a bloody liar, because your face shows you are in a damned bad humor"
Quis est. . . vos: "Who is in a bad humor, you or me?"
rescript: originally, an epistle issued by the pope regarding some question referred to him
cod: a joker or fool
201- Pax super. . .globum: "Peace over the whole bloody world"
Nos ad. . .jacabimus: "Lets go play handball"
202- matric men. . .second arts: referring to a set of four examinations to be passsed before a degree is granted
203- super spottum: "on the spot"
fianna: Irish (Gaelic) for Fenians
_______
205- league class: class in Irish language sponsored by the Gaelic League 204.20 eke: archaic for "also" [Cranly probably
means to say "e en"]
carmelite: order of nuns
Pulchra sunt. . .placent: see 186.1
Pange lingua gloriosi: "Tell, my tongue, in glorious. . .", part of the opening line of a hymn by Aquinas
Vexilla Regis: from "Vexilla Regis Prodeunt", "The Banners of the King Advance"
Impleta sunt. . .Deus: "Fulfilled is all that David told / In true prophetic song of old: / Amidst the nations, God, saith he, /
Hath reigned and triumphed from the Tree."
plucked: flunked
stewing: unintelligent, grinding study
Ego credo. . . Liverpoolio: "I believe that the life of the poor is simply awful, simply bloody awful, in Liverpool"
(Dog-Latin)
seraphim: the highest order of angels
villanelle: nineteen-line poem using only two rhymes, with rhymes and lines repeated according to a set pattern
censer: holder for incense, often roughly spherical
potboy: waiter who serves beer or ale
ashplant: Joyces term for a staff made of the wood of an ash
augur: Roman professional prophet
a touch: sexual play or intercourse
hack. . .hunter: ordinary horse. . . prize horse
Pernobilis et pervetusta familia: "Of a noble and venerable family"
paulo post futurum: grammatical term referring to the verb form used for an event about to happen
ballocks: set of testicles (figuratively, a clumsy oaf or a mess)
dual number: obsolete grammatical form for nouns indicating a pair
pavan: a formal kind of Elizabethan dance
sugan: rope made of straw (Irish)
jarvies: horse-cab drivers
easter duty: going to communion service on Easter
penal days: period (mostly in the eighteenth century) when especially repressive "penal laws" against Irish Catholics
were enforced
Mulier cantat: "The [or a] woman sings"
Et tu cum Jesu Galilaeo eras: "And you were with Jesus of Galilee"
proparoxyton: rhetorical term for a (Latin) word having the acute accent on the next to last syllable
Item: term used in wills in enumerating bequests
veronica: a cloth bearing the image of Jesus face
decollated: beheaded
B.V.M.: Blessed Virgin Mary
risotto alla bergamasca: a rice dish made as in Bergamo (Italian)
Tara. . . Holyhead: Tara is the traditional Irish seat of kings, Holyhead a Welsh port commonly used by Irish leaving the
country.
178- “the dear knows…” = God knows. The Irish words for “God” and “deer” were the same (Fiadh). To avoid speaking Gods name, deer or in this passage (dear) was used.
going for blue: working as hard as possible (alternatively, "bluing" is used in washing clothes)
180- sloblands: local term for a particular trashy area of tidal flatland
waistcoateers: prostitutes (Elizabethan term)
chambering: wanton sexual indulgence (Elizabethan term)
Synopsis Philosophiae. . .: A Synopsis of Scholastic Philosophy for the Understanding of St. Thomas (Aquinas)
181- MacCann is modeled on a contemporary of Joyces at the university. He was an ardent pacifist, feminist and believer in the possibility of universal peace. He was murdered by a British army officer in 1916.
hoardings: billboards
182- “It was a priestlike face, priestlike in its pallor…” Note the description of Cranly.
183- Ivory, ivoire, avorio, ebur: the same word in English, French, Italian, and Latin.
India mittit ebur: India sends (or produces) ivory
Contrahit orator... vates: "The orator summarizes; the poet [or prophet] amplifies [or transforms]"
in tanto discrimine: "in such a crisis"
implere ollam denariorum: to fill the jar with denarii (Roman silver coins)
184-Firbolgs were believed to be early inhabitants of Ireland, who were later invaded by the more cultivated Milesians.
“Davin” Davin is another student modeled on a contemporary of Joyce. He was a firm believer in resurrecting Gaelic (Celtic) traditions and supported the Gaelic Athletic association and the cause to hold onto the Gaelic (Irish) language. He will address Stephen later in a very casual manner, using his first name. The person on whom Davin was based became Lord Mayor of Limerick, but was murdered by a British army regiment in 1921.
“…curfew was still a nightly fear” curfew was a part of many of the Coercion Acts that were passed by the British for the administration of Ireland. 105 such acts were passed between 1800-1921.
Gael: Irishman or Celt
cycles: related groups of Irish myths and legends
***** tame geese: joke on "the wild geese," term for Irish who went into exile
185- hurling match: Irish game, a sort of field hockey
buff: skin
minding cool: playing safety
woeful wipe: huge blow to the ball
camaun: curved stick used in hurling
aims ace: very small amount or distance
yoke: any artifact
187- handsel: good luck omen or gift; also money, as in a tip
188- levite: subordinate priest
canonicals: prescribed vestments
ephod: Old Testament religious garment
189- Pulchra sunt quae visa placent: "That is beautiful which gives pleasure to the eye"
Bonum est in quod tendit appetitus: "That is good toward which the appetite is moved" [or which is desired]
190- Similiter atque senis baculus: "Like an old mans walking stick"
192- insufflation: breathing on someone or something to symbolize the coming of the Holy Ghost and the banishing of evil
spirits
193- Per aspera ad astra: "By rough ways to the stars" (a cliche )
194- Kentish fire: prolonged stamping or clapping to show impatience or disapproval
197- Closing time, gents!: How the end of legal drinking hours might be announced at a pub
Ego habeo: "I have," in "Dog-Latin," a humorous schoolboy imitation of Latin that translates English words literally and
is scattered throughout the following conversations.
Quod?: "What?"
198- Per pax universalis: "For universal peace"
Credo ut vos. . .estis: "I think you are a bloody liar, because your face shows you are in a damned bad humor"
Quis est. . . vos: "Who is in a bad humor, you or me?"
rescript: originally, an epistle issued by the pope regarding some question referred to him
cod: a joker or fool
201- Pax super. . .globum: "Peace over the whole bloody world"
Nos ad. . .jacabimus: "Lets go play handball"
202- matric men. . .second arts: referring to a set of four examinations to be passsed before a degree is granted
203- super spottum: "on the spot"
fianna: Irish (Gaelic) for Fenians
_______
205- league class: class in Irish language sponsored by the Gaelic League 204.20 eke: archaic for "also" [Cranly probably
means to say "e en"]
carmelite: order of nuns
Pulchra sunt. . .placent: see 186.1
Pange lingua gloriosi: "Tell, my tongue, in glorious. . .", part of the opening line of a hymn by Aquinas
Vexilla Regis: from "Vexilla Regis Prodeunt", "The Banners of the King Advance"
Impleta sunt. . .Deus: "Fulfilled is all that David told / In true prophetic song of old: / Amidst the nations, God, saith he, /
Hath reigned and triumphed from the Tree."
plucked: flunked
stewing: unintelligent, grinding study
Ego credo. . . Liverpoolio: "I believe that the life of the poor is simply awful, simply bloody awful, in Liverpool"
(Dog-Latin)
seraphim: the highest order of angels
villanelle: nineteen-line poem using only two rhymes, with rhymes and lines repeated according to a set pattern
censer: holder for incense, often roughly spherical
potboy: waiter who serves beer or ale
ashplant: Joyces term for a staff made of the wood of an ash
augur: Roman professional prophet
a touch: sexual play or intercourse
hack. . .hunter: ordinary horse. . . prize horse
Pernobilis et pervetusta familia: "Of a noble and venerable family"
paulo post futurum: grammatical term referring to the verb form used for an event about to happen
ballocks: set of testicles (figuratively, a clumsy oaf or a mess)
dual number: obsolete grammatical form for nouns indicating a pair
pavan: a formal kind of Elizabethan dance
sugan: rope made of straw (Irish)
jarvies: horse-cab drivers
easter duty: going to communion service on Easter
penal days: period (mostly in the eighteenth century) when especially repressive "penal laws" against Irish Catholics
were enforced
Mulier cantat: "The [or a] woman sings"
Et tu cum Jesu Galilaeo eras: "And you were with Jesus of Galilee"
proparoxyton: rhetorical term for a (Latin) word having the acute accent on the next to last syllable
Item: term used in wills in enumerating bequests
veronica: a cloth bearing the image of Jesus face
decollated: beheaded
B.V.M.: Blessed Virgin Mary
risotto alla bergamasca: a rice dish made as in Bergamo (Italian)
Tara. . . Holyhead: Tara is the traditional Irish seat of kings, Holyhead a Welsh port commonly used by Irish leaving the
country.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Chapter 4 Notes and Review Sheet Assignment
Chapter 4 Notes
153- ejaculations: brief outcries or prayers
supererogation: acts beyond the requirements of duty to establish a "reservoir of merit"
154- chaplets: The cycle of prayers called a rosary is divided into thirds, each called a chaplet, and subdivided into decades.
Paraclete: term for the Holy Ghost
twigging: brushing with a short broom
158- foxpapered: having pages that are "foxed," or discolored
canticles: the "Song of Songs" or "Song of Solomon" in Protestant Bibles
Inter ubera mea commorabitur: "He shall lie between by breasts," from "Song of Solomon."
160- dominican: order founded by Saint Dominic
franciscan: order founded by St. Francis of Assisi
les jupes: French for "skirts"
161- muff: a bungler, novice, or outsider
162- a vocation: a "calling" for the priesthood
163- “ power of the keys…sin” the power to hear confession and to give (or withhold) absolution
164- thurible: censer, in which incense is burned
chasuble: long outer vestment worn by a priest celebrating the mass
tunicle of subdeacon: vestment with wide sleeves worn by the person who prepares the sacred vessels during the
celebration
humeral veil: veil covering the shoulders
paten: plate on which the eucharistic bread is placed
dalmatic: wide-sleeved vestment worn during celebration of High Mass by the deacon, the person ranked second to the
celebrant himself
Ite, missa est: "Go, the mass is completed"
“…Simon Magus” Simon Magus offered money for spiritual power (the sin of simony)[ Interesting in terms of Simon Dedalus, Stephen’s father]. The sin against the Holy Ghost was Final Impenitence, which involved a refusal to acknowledge the existence of a spiritual force for good.
165- novena: a series of spiritual exercises lasting nine days. St. Stephen was the first Christian martyr stoned to death outside the walls of Jerusalem.
novitiate: time of probation for aspiring priests
166- “…the fainting sickness” As a novice, Stephen would fast the night before in order to receive Holy Communion.
S.J.: Society of Jesus (the Jesuit Order)
169- “…the university” This is a reference to University Collge, Dublin. Crosby is a tutor there, and Simon is looking for information about it.
“…the Bull” a seawall that runs from the shore at Clontarf into Dublin Bay.
171- Note the poetic diction…
172- thingmote: place where Danes held council of law when they ruled Dublin in medieval times
Stephanos: Greek for crown, wreath, or garland
stuff in the kisser: punch in the mouth
173- Bous Stephanoumenos! Bous Stephaneforos!: Greek variants for "ox bearing wreaths" (i.e., being led for sacrifice).
artificer: inventor or craftsman (i.e., Daedalus)
the stoneblock: term for a group of rocks on the side of Bull Wall suitable for diving
cerements: burial clothes
Review Sheet Assignment: (Due the day of the AP test)
Review Sheet Assignments
You must create a complete review sheet for each of the plays and novels we have studied in class this year.
NOTE: THIS INFORMATION CANNOT BE LIFTED FROM THE INTERNET!! YOU WILL RECEIVE A SCORE OF ZERO IF THIS HAPPENS. IT ALSO CANNOT BE MASS PRODUCED AND SUBMITTED AS A GROUP.
Oedipus
Hamlet
Tartuffe
A Doll’s House
Death of a Salesman
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Wuthering Heights
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Each review sheet must address the following:
Title of Work
Author
Approximate Time Period
Main Characters: Names and Relationships
Brief Plot Summary
Handy Plot References
A Meaning of the Work as a Whole
Relevant Literary Techniques
If I write on this work, I will be sure to mention...
Quintessential Quote(s) [Easy to memorize, sure to impress]
A Condensed Example (Yours will be more detailed)
Title: Metamorphosis Author: Franz Kafka Time: Early Modern
Characters: Gregor-Salesman and Bug Grete: Sister and aspiring musician
Mr. Samsa, Mrs. Samsa, Charwoman, Lodgers
Plot Summary: No space— but self explanatory. Can be done as bullets.(Do not plagiarize!)
Handy Plot References: Rocking to get out of bed, desire to go to work, never miss a day, arrival of boss, attempt to communicate, picture with girl, saving furniture, apple attack, walking on walls, borders, sister playing violin…
Meaning of Work as a Whole: The essential alienation of mankind from a world that seems to value only the material contributions he can make.
Literary Techniques: Narrative voice, symbolism,
I will be sure to mention: Symbolism: picture frame, apple, music, bug. Lack of explanation for transformation, Gregor’s desire to keep working.
Quotations: “When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams…” “Was he an animal…”
153- ejaculations: brief outcries or prayers
supererogation: acts beyond the requirements of duty to establish a "reservoir of merit"
154- chaplets: The cycle of prayers called a rosary is divided into thirds, each called a chaplet, and subdivided into decades.
Paraclete: term for the Holy Ghost
twigging: brushing with a short broom
158- foxpapered: having pages that are "foxed," or discolored
canticles: the "Song of Songs" or "Song of Solomon" in Protestant Bibles
Inter ubera mea commorabitur: "He shall lie between by breasts," from "Song of Solomon."
160- dominican: order founded by Saint Dominic
franciscan: order founded by St. Francis of Assisi
les jupes: French for "skirts"
161- muff: a bungler, novice, or outsider
162- a vocation: a "calling" for the priesthood
163- “ power of the keys…sin” the power to hear confession and to give (or withhold) absolution
164- thurible: censer, in which incense is burned
chasuble: long outer vestment worn by a priest celebrating the mass
tunicle of subdeacon: vestment with wide sleeves worn by the person who prepares the sacred vessels during the
celebration
humeral veil: veil covering the shoulders
paten: plate on which the eucharistic bread is placed
dalmatic: wide-sleeved vestment worn during celebration of High Mass by the deacon, the person ranked second to the
celebrant himself
Ite, missa est: "Go, the mass is completed"
“…Simon Magus” Simon Magus offered money for spiritual power (the sin of simony)[ Interesting in terms of Simon Dedalus, Stephen’s father]. The sin against the Holy Ghost was Final Impenitence, which involved a refusal to acknowledge the existence of a spiritual force for good.
165- novena: a series of spiritual exercises lasting nine days. St. Stephen was the first Christian martyr stoned to death outside the walls of Jerusalem.
novitiate: time of probation for aspiring priests
166- “…the fainting sickness” As a novice, Stephen would fast the night before in order to receive Holy Communion.
S.J.: Society of Jesus (the Jesuit Order)
169- “…the university” This is a reference to University Collge, Dublin. Crosby is a tutor there, and Simon is looking for information about it.
“…the Bull” a seawall that runs from the shore at Clontarf into Dublin Bay.
171- Note the poetic diction…
172- thingmote: place where Danes held council of law when they ruled Dublin in medieval times
Stephanos: Greek for crown, wreath, or garland
stuff in the kisser: punch in the mouth
173- Bous Stephanoumenos! Bous Stephaneforos!: Greek variants for "ox bearing wreaths" (i.e., being led for sacrifice).
artificer: inventor or craftsman (i.e., Daedalus)
the stoneblock: term for a group of rocks on the side of Bull Wall suitable for diving
cerements: burial clothes
Review Sheet Assignment: (Due the day of the AP test)
Review Sheet Assignments
You must create a complete review sheet for each of the plays and novels we have studied in class this year.
NOTE: THIS INFORMATION CANNOT BE LIFTED FROM THE INTERNET!! YOU WILL RECEIVE A SCORE OF ZERO IF THIS HAPPENS. IT ALSO CANNOT BE MASS PRODUCED AND SUBMITTED AS A GROUP.
Oedipus
Hamlet
Tartuffe
A Doll’s House
Death of a Salesman
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Wuthering Heights
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Each review sheet must address the following:
Title of Work
Author
Approximate Time Period
Main Characters: Names and Relationships
Brief Plot Summary
Handy Plot References
A Meaning of the Work as a Whole
Relevant Literary Techniques
If I write on this work, I will be sure to mention...
Quintessential Quote(s) [Easy to memorize, sure to impress]
A Condensed Example (Yours will be more detailed)
Title: Metamorphosis Author: Franz Kafka Time: Early Modern
Characters: Gregor-Salesman and Bug Grete: Sister and aspiring musician
Mr. Samsa, Mrs. Samsa, Charwoman, Lodgers
Plot Summary: No space— but self explanatory. Can be done as bullets.(Do not plagiarize!)
Handy Plot References: Rocking to get out of bed, desire to go to work, never miss a day, arrival of boss, attempt to communicate, picture with girl, saving furniture, apple attack, walking on walls, borders, sister playing violin…
Meaning of Work as a Whole: The essential alienation of mankind from a world that seems to value only the material contributions he can make.
Literary Techniques: Narrative voice, symbolism,
I will be sure to mention: Symbolism: picture frame, apple, music, bug. Lack of explanation for transformation, Gregor’s desire to keep working.
Quotations: “When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams…” “Was he an animal…”
Monday, April 8, 2013
Chapter 3 notes
111- balefire: large fire in the open air
“Sanctifying grace…actual grace”—Two divisions of internal grace according to Catholic doctrine. Sanctifying grace is a gift is freely given to the substance of the soul, but is incompatible with sin. Actual grace is an impulse that inspires the mind to perform a good act and is efficacious only if the mind wishes to continue the good acts.
112- “prefecture. . .of the sodality”: leadership of an honorific student association to promote the honoring of the Blessed Virgin.
113- Quasi cedrus. . .odoris: from Ecclesiasticus 24, 13-15, a Biblical book of the Catholic Bible, from what Protestants call the Apocrypha ("I was exalted like a cedar tree of Lebanon, or a cypress on Mount Sion. I was exalted like a palm tree in Engadi, or like the rose bushes in Jericho; like a fine olive tree in the field; I was exalted like a plane tree. I gave forth a perfume like cinnamon and camels thorn, and I spread fragrance like choice myrrh. . . .)
“morning star” one of the titles given to Mary in the Litany of the Blessed Virgin.
113- sums and cuts: math problems, generally based on Euclid
“game ball…scut the whole hour” – meaning, “class is over; we can skip the whole hour”
114- Stephen addresses the seven deadly sins: Lust, Pride, Covetousness, Envy, Gluttony, Anger, Sloth
first beatitude. . .second beatitude: being "poor in spirit" and "meek", from the Sermon on the Mount in the Douay (Catholic) Bible version, Matthew 5.
115-special confessors: priests to whom a penitent goes regularly
116- “a great fisher of souls”- from Matthew 4: 19. This is a reference to St. Francis Xavier the second in command to the founder of the Jesuit order, St. Ignatius Loyola.
simoom: a hot wind, seasonal in some deserts
“Remember the last words…” Actually from Ecclesiasticus 7:40 The last things are death, judgment, heaven and hell.
125 -non serviam: "I will not serve," Lucifer’s (Satans) defiant statement
blue funk: extreme depression and fear
126- “he founded the holy catholic church…rock of ages.” There is a pun here in that the church was founded by St. Peter, whose name in Latin, Petrus, also means rock.
135- poena damni: torment of the damned (removal from Gods sight). There are two kinds of punishment for the damned: poena damni is the punishment of the loss of the sovereign good, poena sesus are all the other torments that the damned experience.
act of contrition: formal prayer expressing remorse
136- “sacraments…indulgences” A sacrament is a visible sign of invisible grace instituted for the justification of mankind. The seven sacraments are Baptism, Penance, Holy Communion, Confirmation, Matrimony, Holy Orders, Extreme Unction. An indulgence is the remission of temporal punishment ; it is effective when the sin has been forgiven.
140- “mortal sin…venial sin…” Mortal sin destroys the soul; venial infects it, but leaves it in a reparable condition.
145- “The ache of conscience…” Stephen associates sexual arousal with sin, which is a misunderstanding of Catholic doctrine. It is an incentive to sin, not a sin in itself.
147- “a canopy” The canopy is carried over the priest who bears the blessed Sacrament in procession on feast days.
148 - brown habit of a capuchin: belted robe worn by Capuchins, a branch of the Franciscan order of friars
149- Confiteor- The prayer of penitence in which the penitent confesses his sins. Stephen stops mid-prayer before the pleas for forgiveness and absolution..
152 - ciborium: vessel that holds the host (eucharistic wafer) during communion
Corpus Domini nostri../ In vitam eternam: “The body of our Lord (lead you to) everlasting life” The first and last three words of the priest as he administers communion.
“Sanctifying grace…actual grace”—Two divisions of internal grace according to Catholic doctrine. Sanctifying grace is a gift is freely given to the substance of the soul, but is incompatible with sin. Actual grace is an impulse that inspires the mind to perform a good act and is efficacious only if the mind wishes to continue the good acts.
112- “prefecture. . .of the sodality”: leadership of an honorific student association to promote the honoring of the Blessed Virgin.
113- Quasi cedrus. . .odoris: from Ecclesiasticus 24, 13-15, a Biblical book of the Catholic Bible, from what Protestants call the Apocrypha ("I was exalted like a cedar tree of Lebanon, or a cypress on Mount Sion. I was exalted like a palm tree in Engadi, or like the rose bushes in Jericho; like a fine olive tree in the field; I was exalted like a plane tree. I gave forth a perfume like cinnamon and camels thorn, and I spread fragrance like choice myrrh. . . .)
“morning star” one of the titles given to Mary in the Litany of the Blessed Virgin.
113- sums and cuts: math problems, generally based on Euclid
“game ball…scut the whole hour” – meaning, “class is over; we can skip the whole hour”
114- Stephen addresses the seven deadly sins: Lust, Pride, Covetousness, Envy, Gluttony, Anger, Sloth
first beatitude. . .second beatitude: being "poor in spirit" and "meek", from the Sermon on the Mount in the Douay (Catholic) Bible version, Matthew 5.
115-special confessors: priests to whom a penitent goes regularly
116- “a great fisher of souls”- from Matthew 4: 19. This is a reference to St. Francis Xavier the second in command to the founder of the Jesuit order, St. Ignatius Loyola.
simoom: a hot wind, seasonal in some deserts
“Remember the last words…” Actually from Ecclesiasticus 7:40 The last things are death, judgment, heaven and hell.
125 -non serviam: "I will not serve," Lucifer’s (Satans) defiant statement
blue funk: extreme depression and fear
126- “he founded the holy catholic church…rock of ages.” There is a pun here in that the church was founded by St. Peter, whose name in Latin, Petrus, also means rock.
135- poena damni: torment of the damned (removal from Gods sight). There are two kinds of punishment for the damned: poena damni is the punishment of the loss of the sovereign good, poena sesus are all the other torments that the damned experience.
act of contrition: formal prayer expressing remorse
136- “sacraments…indulgences” A sacrament is a visible sign of invisible grace instituted for the justification of mankind. The seven sacraments are Baptism, Penance, Holy Communion, Confirmation, Matrimony, Holy Orders, Extreme Unction. An indulgence is the remission of temporal punishment ; it is effective when the sin has been forgiven.
140- “mortal sin…venial sin…” Mortal sin destroys the soul; venial infects it, but leaves it in a reparable condition.
145- “The ache of conscience…” Stephen associates sexual arousal with sin, which is a misunderstanding of Catholic doctrine. It is an incentive to sin, not a sin in itself.
147- “a canopy” The canopy is carried over the priest who bears the blessed Sacrament in procession on feast days.
148 - brown habit of a capuchin: belted robe worn by Capuchins, a branch of the Franciscan order of friars
149- Confiteor- The prayer of penitence in which the penitent confesses his sins. Stephen stops mid-prayer before the pleas for forgiveness and absolution..
152 - ciborium: vessel that holds the host (eucharistic wafer) during communion
Corpus Domini nostri../ In vitam eternam: “The body of our Lord (lead you to) everlasting life” The first and last three words of the priest as he administers communion.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Portrait Chapter 2 Notes
Portrait: Chapter 2
70 “Black Twist” strong tobacco twisted into a rope
“All serene” = no problem
Black Rock—a suburb south of Dublin
Immediate change in style/ syntax
71 Stephan training as runner
“…he knelt on his red handkerchief and read above his breath…” Color imagery…Catholic Church
72 Disinterest in religion (thoughts respect)
“His evenings were his own; and he pored over a ragged translation of The Count of Monte Cristo…”
73 “Madam I never eat muscatel grapes” a quote from the Count of Monte Cristo, made by the her Dantes (the dark avenger) to Mercedes (his love)
“Carrickmines…Stradbook” villages sout of Blackrock
New friend- Aubrey Mills- adventures
74 Apprehension of envisioning future continuing distancing from other children- restlessness and
solitude“In a vague way he understood that his father was in trouble…For some time he had felt the slight
changes in his house…”
“He did not want to play. He wanted to meet in the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld.”
75 “Caravans” horse-drawn covered cart or wagon
Coerced move to new house in Dublin… more active city life, less provincial
(Simon Dedalus, Stephen’s father and his family had enjoyed moderate prosperity. However, in this chapter,
he falls on hard times, has to move his family to Dublin, and cannot sent Stephen back to
Clongowes. Later, he will be enrolled in Belvedere, another Jesuit school, with his brother Maurice.)
76 “He was angry with himself for being young and the prey of restless foolish impulses, angry also with the change of fortune which was reshaping the world about him into a visions of squalor and insincerity. Yet his anger lent nothing to the vision. He chronicled with patience what he saw, detaching himself from it and testing its mortifying flavour in secret.”
77 “Pantomime” popular show with song, dance, a loose story line and local references
“stone of coal” a stone is approximately 14 pounds;
78 “crackers” decorated noise makers, often with small gifts inside
“tram” means of public transportation, during this period changing from horse-drawn to electric- powered
79 “His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon the tide” – Dublin simile. Awareness of opposite sex…interest; memory of Eileen. “Now, as then, he stood listlessly in his place, seemingly a tranquil watcher of the scene before him.”
“emerald exercise” patriotic green notebook for student work
A. M. D. G. Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam (For the greater glory of God)
To E- C- : In Chapter III, we find out that this is Emma; in Stephen Hero (an early version of the novel) there is a similar young woman named Emma Clery.
80 “second moiety notices” legal notices involving bankruptcy
“All of these elements which he deemed common and insignificant fell out of the scene.” –Process oriented.
L.D.S Laus Deo Semper (Praise to the Lord always) Another Jesuit motto that would be appended to student work.
81 “Christian brothers” another order like Jesuits, thought to be less prestigious and showing the snobbish nature of Stephen’s father.
Little brother, Maurice
“The Corporation” the Dublin Corporation, the city’s administrative and legislative body
82 “Whitsuntide” week beginning with Pentecost, the seventh Sunday after Easter
“Stewards” ushers
83 “Stephen, though in deference to his reputation for essay writing…”
85 “smiled in his rivals face, beaked like a birds. He had often thought it strange that Vincent Heron had a bird’s face as well as a bird’s name.”
“beads” saying of the Rosary
86 Two years passage of time
87 “one sure five” a certainty
Confiteor: Prayer in preparation for the Confession
“His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivined and squalid way of life…He had emerged from a two years’ spell of revery to find himself in the midst of a new scene, every event and figure of which affected him intimately, disheartened him or allured and, whether alluring or disheartening, filled him always with unrest and bitter thoughts.” (Chiasmic pattern)
88 Heresy in his essay! (The heresy is that Stephen denies that the soul could ever come closer to divine perfection, although it is acceptable to say that it can never attain it.)
90 Poetry debate, Tennyson vs. Byron 2 years prior “Stephen forgot the silent vows he had been making and burst out…”
“Slates in the yard” on the walls of the urinal
“the loft” place for punishment at Clongowes
91 “…and the, torn and flushed and panting, stumbled after them half blinded with tears, clenching his fists madly and sobbing.”
92 “But the pressure of her fingers had been lighter and steadier: and suddenly the memory of their touch traversed his brain and body like an invisibly warm wave.”
“in a great bake” angry or agitated
94 “for one rare moment he seemed clothed in the real apparel of boyhood.”
95 “horse piss and rotted straw.” Connection to previous and future imagery
96 “jingle” a horse-drawn car
Death of Uncle Charles-retrospect
“Terror of sleep fascinated his mind.”
97 “Come-all yous” street ballads
“Drisheens” a sort of sweet bread make with sheeps intestines
Simon struggles with his own mortality as he realizes that the names of his past in Cork are no longer know, remembered, etc. Desire to share past experience with son; personal narrative
98 Simon searches desk for his initials carved in while in school; metaphorical search for mark left on the past => future
99 “Groceries” a pub that also sold groceries
Source of reveries “His recent monstrous reveries came thronging into his memory…He had soon given into them and allowed them to sweep across and abase his intellect, wondering always where they came from, from what den of monstrous images, and always weak and humble towards others, restless and sickened of himself when they had swept over him.”
Poetic reverie reaction to Dad’s comments
“free boy” a boy on scholarship
100 “maneens” insulting term (little men)
101 “slim jim” a long jelly candy
Recollection of childhood in last paragraph speaks to maturation of character and perception. Syntax parallels fragmented style of chapter one…provides a stylistic complement and contrasts with the smoother, more mature syntax of Chapter 2. Reminder of Stephen’s maturation
102 “lob” some amount of money (penny)
“jackeen” arrogant, lower-class person
“Tempora mutantur nos…illis” Latin: Circumstances change and we change in them…second version… and we change with them.
Teasing Stephan about flirting-father denies his potential feelings/sexuality “Hes not that way built…Hes a levelheaded thinking boy who doesn’t bother his head with that kind of nonsense.”
103 “Your father, said the little old man to Stephen, was the boldest flirt in the city of Cork in his day.” Establishes sexual competition (Freudian) between father and son
Father: “Don’t be putting ideas into his head…Leave him to his maker.” Irony; Ideas are already in Stephen’s head. Simon seems unable/unwilling to recognize that Stephen has the same desires that he did as an adolescent.
104 “ He had known neither the pleasure of companionship with others nor the vigour of rude male health nor filial piety. Nothing stirred within his soul but a cold and cruel and loveless lust. His childhood was dead on lost and with it his soul capable of simple joys.”
Moon/Earth Imagery-Shelley Fragment*
105 “Exhibition” outstanding performance in one of the annual national academic examinations
106-107 Wins money for essay writing…enjoys buying things for his family, but money quickly wears out…isolation from brother and sister- “the lives he sought to approach.”
“He saw clearly too his own future isolation.”
“He cared little that he was is mortal sin, that his life had grown to be a tissue of subterfuge and falsehood.”
“Only the morning pained him with its dim memory of dark orgiastic riot, its keen and humiliating sense of transgression. He returned to his wanderings.”
108 “Such moments…”
109 Imagery… “darker than the swoon of skin, softer than sound or odour.” Appeal to woman
* Fragment (The existing lines are the beginning of a never-completed poem by the Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley)
To the Moon
Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth
And every changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its consistency.
70 “Black Twist” strong tobacco twisted into a rope
“All serene” = no problem
Black Rock—a suburb south of Dublin
Immediate change in style/ syntax
71 Stephan training as runner
“…he knelt on his red handkerchief and read above his breath…” Color imagery…Catholic Church
72 Disinterest in religion (thoughts respect)
“His evenings were his own; and he pored over a ragged translation of The Count of Monte Cristo…”
73 “Madam I never eat muscatel grapes” a quote from the Count of Monte Cristo, made by the her Dantes (the dark avenger) to Mercedes (his love)
“Carrickmines…Stradbook” villages sout of Blackrock
New friend- Aubrey Mills- adventures
74 Apprehension of envisioning future continuing distancing from other children- restlessness and
solitude“In a vague way he understood that his father was in trouble…For some time he had felt the slight
changes in his house…”
“He did not want to play. He wanted to meet in the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld.”
75 “Caravans” horse-drawn covered cart or wagon
Coerced move to new house in Dublin… more active city life, less provincial
(Simon Dedalus, Stephen’s father and his family had enjoyed moderate prosperity. However, in this chapter,
he falls on hard times, has to move his family to Dublin, and cannot sent Stephen back to
Clongowes. Later, he will be enrolled in Belvedere, another Jesuit school, with his brother Maurice.)
76 “He was angry with himself for being young and the prey of restless foolish impulses, angry also with the change of fortune which was reshaping the world about him into a visions of squalor and insincerity. Yet his anger lent nothing to the vision. He chronicled with patience what he saw, detaching himself from it and testing its mortifying flavour in secret.”
77 “Pantomime” popular show with song, dance, a loose story line and local references
“stone of coal” a stone is approximately 14 pounds;
78 “crackers” decorated noise makers, often with small gifts inside
“tram” means of public transportation, during this period changing from horse-drawn to electric- powered
79 “His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon the tide” – Dublin simile. Awareness of opposite sex…interest; memory of Eileen. “Now, as then, he stood listlessly in his place, seemingly a tranquil watcher of the scene before him.”
“emerald exercise” patriotic green notebook for student work
A. M. D. G. Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam (For the greater glory of God)
To E- C- : In Chapter III, we find out that this is Emma; in Stephen Hero (an early version of the novel) there is a similar young woman named Emma Clery.
80 “second moiety notices” legal notices involving bankruptcy
“All of these elements which he deemed common and insignificant fell out of the scene.” –Process oriented.
L.D.S Laus Deo Semper (Praise to the Lord always) Another Jesuit motto that would be appended to student work.
81 “Christian brothers” another order like Jesuits, thought to be less prestigious and showing the snobbish nature of Stephen’s father.
Little brother, Maurice
“The Corporation” the Dublin Corporation, the city’s administrative and legislative body
82 “Whitsuntide” week beginning with Pentecost, the seventh Sunday after Easter
“Stewards” ushers
83 “Stephen, though in deference to his reputation for essay writing…”
85 “smiled in his rivals face, beaked like a birds. He had often thought it strange that Vincent Heron had a bird’s face as well as a bird’s name.”
“beads” saying of the Rosary
86 Two years passage of time
87 “one sure five” a certainty
Confiteor: Prayer in preparation for the Confession
“His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivined and squalid way of life…He had emerged from a two years’ spell of revery to find himself in the midst of a new scene, every event and figure of which affected him intimately, disheartened him or allured and, whether alluring or disheartening, filled him always with unrest and bitter thoughts.” (Chiasmic pattern)
88 Heresy in his essay! (The heresy is that Stephen denies that the soul could ever come closer to divine perfection, although it is acceptable to say that it can never attain it.)
90 Poetry debate, Tennyson vs. Byron 2 years prior “Stephen forgot the silent vows he had been making and burst out…”
“Slates in the yard” on the walls of the urinal
“the loft” place for punishment at Clongowes
91 “…and the, torn and flushed and panting, stumbled after them half blinded with tears, clenching his fists madly and sobbing.”
92 “But the pressure of her fingers had been lighter and steadier: and suddenly the memory of their touch traversed his brain and body like an invisibly warm wave.”
“in a great bake” angry or agitated
94 “for one rare moment he seemed clothed in the real apparel of boyhood.”
95 “horse piss and rotted straw.” Connection to previous and future imagery
96 “jingle” a horse-drawn car
Death of Uncle Charles-retrospect
“Terror of sleep fascinated his mind.”
97 “Come-all yous” street ballads
“Drisheens” a sort of sweet bread make with sheeps intestines
Simon struggles with his own mortality as he realizes that the names of his past in Cork are no longer know, remembered, etc. Desire to share past experience with son; personal narrative
98 Simon searches desk for his initials carved in while in school; metaphorical search for mark left on the past => future
99 “Groceries” a pub that also sold groceries
Source of reveries “His recent monstrous reveries came thronging into his memory…He had soon given into them and allowed them to sweep across and abase his intellect, wondering always where they came from, from what den of monstrous images, and always weak and humble towards others, restless and sickened of himself when they had swept over him.”
Poetic reverie reaction to Dad’s comments
“free boy” a boy on scholarship
100 “maneens” insulting term (little men)
101 “slim jim” a long jelly candy
Recollection of childhood in last paragraph speaks to maturation of character and perception. Syntax parallels fragmented style of chapter one…provides a stylistic complement and contrasts with the smoother, more mature syntax of Chapter 2. Reminder of Stephen’s maturation
102 “lob” some amount of money (penny)
“jackeen” arrogant, lower-class person
“Tempora mutantur nos…illis” Latin: Circumstances change and we change in them…second version… and we change with them.
Teasing Stephan about flirting-father denies his potential feelings/sexuality “Hes not that way built…Hes a levelheaded thinking boy who doesn’t bother his head with that kind of nonsense.”
103 “Your father, said the little old man to Stephen, was the boldest flirt in the city of Cork in his day.” Establishes sexual competition (Freudian) between father and son
Father: “Don’t be putting ideas into his head…Leave him to his maker.” Irony; Ideas are already in Stephen’s head. Simon seems unable/unwilling to recognize that Stephen has the same desires that he did as an adolescent.
104 “ He had known neither the pleasure of companionship with others nor the vigour of rude male health nor filial piety. Nothing stirred within his soul but a cold and cruel and loveless lust. His childhood was dead on lost and with it his soul capable of simple joys.”
Moon/Earth Imagery-Shelley Fragment*
105 “Exhibition” outstanding performance in one of the annual national academic examinations
106-107 Wins money for essay writing…enjoys buying things for his family, but money quickly wears out…isolation from brother and sister- “the lives he sought to approach.”
“He saw clearly too his own future isolation.”
“He cared little that he was is mortal sin, that his life had grown to be a tissue of subterfuge and falsehood.”
“Only the morning pained him with its dim memory of dark orgiastic riot, its keen and humiliating sense of transgression. He returned to his wanderings.”
108 “Such moments…”
109 Imagery… “darker than the swoon of skin, softer than sound or odour.” Appeal to woman
* Fragment (The existing lines are the beginning of a never-completed poem by the Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley)
To the Moon
Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth
And every changing, like a joyless eye
That finds no object worth its consistency.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Chapter 1 Notes
(I am pasting chapter 1 notes as part of the actual post because of my current battle with Google Drive. It looks sloppy, but you might actually have a chance of reading them.)
Chapter 1 Notes
Note: All page numbers refer to the Signet Classics Edition. If you are working with a different text, try to adjust the page numbers accordingly. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Historical Background
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891) was an Irish political leader who became the first president of the National Land League of Ireland in 1879. He was imprisoned for resisting English laws which reduced Ireland’s autonomy. Although he was exonerated of the charge of extremism in 1890, his reputation was destroyed that same year in a messy divorce scandal involving Kitty O’Shea, the wife of Captain Henry O’Shea. As such, he stands as a symbol both for national pride and the struggle for Irish autonomy, but also for the fallibility and imperfection of man.
The Daedalus Myth
King Minos of Crete receives a magnificently beautiful bull as a gift of Poseidon with the intent that Minos, in return, would sacrifice it to Poseidon. Minos, however, decides that he cannot bear to part with the bull, and as punishment, Poseidon makes Minos’ wife, Pasiphae, fall madly in love with the bull. Pasiphae has Daedalus, the great inventor or artificer, create a “cow suit” from inside which she will be able to “couple” with the bull. This is the first of Daedalus’ great accomplishments. After the union of Pasiphae and the bull, she gives birth to the terrible Minotaur, a violent half-man, half-bull creature. Minos does not have his wife’s terrible offspring slain, but instead asks Daedalus to create the Labyrinth, a maze from which the Minotaur cannot escape. This is the second of his great creations. After Daedalus and his son, Icarus are imprisoned in the Labyrinth as well (some say for helping the hero Theseus to escape; others for knowing dangerous secrets) Daedalus constructs wings for himself and his son to escape the island of Crete by air, thus marking the third of his great creations. Icarus, of course, does not following his father’s warnings and plummets to his death after flying too close to the sun, and Daedalus escapes to the island of Sicily.
Page # Annotation/Observation
19 Hot/Cold Imagery ; smell; introduction to narrative voice; details and information limited to what Stephen understands/knows at given age
20 physical smallness and delicacy
Color Imagery/ Ireland, Pope
“The third line”—Clongowes children under thirteen
“Cachou” Candy and breath freshener
“Prefects” Teachers who work as housemasters and supervise outside activities
“Greaves in his number…refectory.” Shinguards in his locker and a private supply of treats in the dining hall.
“Eyes weak and watering” Recurrent Eye imagery (Pull out his eyes/Apologize, etc.)
21 “Peach on” tell on
“Rector” Administrative head of the college
“Soutane” Black gown with sleeves
22 Eagerness to go home…changing numbers
homicide- connections to the family
Isolation from peers…picked on
“he shivered as if he had cold slimy water next to his skin”- discomfort- later connection
23 Water imagery- cold/hot
“suck” sycophant; one who “sucks up” to a teacher
24 “York/Lancaster” Names of teams; taken from British history and the War of the Roses
“in a wax” in a rage
“first place in elements” English, math, geography, history, Latin
Mind wandering from sums to roses (poetic/sensitive nature of artist)
-Intro to Jack Lawton- competition
Apron, Cold, Damp imagery repeated…trying to make connections in world/perception
25 “It made a roar like a train at night” Use of similes at this age in order to establish connections and meaning of sensory perception.
“The higher line” boys 15-18
-No introduction to characters- appear nonchalantly as they would exist in the mind of the narrator, young Stephen. (Reader must adapt)
26 Wells as bully (no first name given)
Attempts to fit in; changes answer about kissing mother; paradox…will not be accepted regardless of answer
“Hacking chestnut” dried chestnuts were attached to strings and swung against each other. The one that didn’t break was the winner.
Connection back to water imagery; rat
27 Discovers immensity of universe; his location. Same sense of degrees as with ages of parents; begins with himself (center) and proceeds to largest conceivable.
“cod” joke
Understanding of order and structure in writing and poetry “He read the verses backwards, but they were not poetry.”
28 Explanation of location in universe- God’s real name must be God- familiar to Stephan, thoughts understanding different languages and conceptualization
29 Hot/ Cold imagery…shivering that warming up in bed… “lovely”
2nd Paragraph: Repetition of “cold”
“hob” shelf to the back or side of fireplace
31 Activity of mind as he’s in bed waiting for sleep…not relaxing but thinking
“ironingroom” place where armor was formerly stored
“Cars” horse drawn vehicles
32 Casual leap of time to holiday… confusion of temporality as child emphasis on major events. Makes reader assume it is actually happening.
–Dream of returning home, repetition of red/green imagery; parallel to Dante’s ribbons
33 “The minds of rats could not understand trigonometry” –death; absence of life, thought
Brevity of sentences “Their coats dried then. They were only dead things.”
34 “Brother Michael” A man bound to the Jesuit order by vows but not educated as a priest would be; usually assigned housekeeping duties.
35 Simile “like the long neck of a tramhorse”
Mortality “You could die just the same on a sunny day.”
“cope of black and gold” a long vestment in the colors appropriate for a funeral mass
36 “… the day was going on just as if he were there…”
“Your name is like Latin” connection with Daedalus the artificer. Further separation and distinction from peers. Comment by Athy
37 “no noise from the playground” Inability to know what others away from him are doing. Center of his own life parallel writing in book
38 Personification- waves- harbor imagery
Physical break; Home for Christmas
Death of Parnell
39 “boss” a type of hassock or footrest.
“Birthday present for Queen Victoria” Casey was probably picking oakum as hard labor in prison for political activities
40 “jack foxes” male foxes
41 Family-“little brothers and sisters”; Stephen’s gradual incorporation into “adult” family activities
“Ally Dally” the best
“pandybat” a stiff, reinforced leather strap
42 Argument over influence priests should have politically over contingency. Dante = pro influence.
44 “pope’s nose” part of the turkey’s rump
46 Eileen (playmate) is protestant
“Tower of Ivory”/ “House of Gold” epithets for the Blessed Virgin Mary from the Roman Catholic Litany of Our Lady (continues development of feminine ideal and understanding on the part of young Stephen)
47 Link between Eileen “cool white hand” and Virgin Mary
“tig” a game like hide and seek
Metaphorical blinding; eye imagery
48 Blinding imagery
49 Argument continues- worth of priests
“whiteboy” member of a group working for land and tax reform sometimes using terrorist means
50 “tearing away a cobweb”
-sees father crying
*casual shift in time from one significant moment to the next*
51 “fecked” stole
“scut” the tail of a rabbit, here meaning, “turned tail and ran”
“boatbearer” one who carries the container or incense before its lighted”
“censer” vessel in which incense is burned
52 “sprinter” someone training in short distance bicycle races
Continued bulling- broken glasses; Sight, removal of senses
“prof” captain of cricket team
“rounders” British ball game
53 “square” the school latrine or urinal
“smugging” probably a mild sort of homosexual play
Development of sexual identity, gender awareness…immediate connection to Eileen
End of page, “By thinking of things, you could understand them”
54 “Calico Belly” joke on Ceasar’s Comentarii de Bello Gallico (Commentaries on the Gallic Wars)
“six and eight” number of blows with the strap given for punishment
“prefect of studies” assistant to the rector in charge of academics
56 Concern for humanity- punishment distasteful.
57 “monstrance” vessel of precious metal in which the host is displayed
“But God was not in the course when they stole it…”
“The day of your first communion is the happiest day of your life.”
58 Was it a sin for the father to be mad?
61 Gives into cry after flogging
63 Urged to tell rector- warning not to “peach”
65 Blinding; darkness of corridor
66 “Saint Ignatius Loyola” founder of Society or Jesus (Jesuit Order)
“Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam” For the Greater Glory of God (the Jesuit Motto) Students in Jesuit schools might abbreviate the phrase “AMDG” and attach it to their compositions
“swallowed down the thing in his throat”
68 Momentary acceptance of crowd for telling on Father Dolan- perfect
Conmee – Rector at Clongowes
69 “gallnuts” rounded growths on trees caused by insects
“long shies” long hits by the batsman in cricket.
End with simile describing cricket
“like drops of water in a fountain falling softly in the burning bowl.” Connection of simile back to earlier water imagery; rebirth/ purification…etc
Chapter 1 Notes
Note: All page numbers refer to the Signet Classics Edition. If you are working with a different text, try to adjust the page numbers accordingly. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Historical Background
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891) was an Irish political leader who became the first president of the National Land League of Ireland in 1879. He was imprisoned for resisting English laws which reduced Ireland’s autonomy. Although he was exonerated of the charge of extremism in 1890, his reputation was destroyed that same year in a messy divorce scandal involving Kitty O’Shea, the wife of Captain Henry O’Shea. As such, he stands as a symbol both for national pride and the struggle for Irish autonomy, but also for the fallibility and imperfection of man.
The Daedalus Myth
King Minos of Crete receives a magnificently beautiful bull as a gift of Poseidon with the intent that Minos, in return, would sacrifice it to Poseidon. Minos, however, decides that he cannot bear to part with the bull, and as punishment, Poseidon makes Minos’ wife, Pasiphae, fall madly in love with the bull. Pasiphae has Daedalus, the great inventor or artificer, create a “cow suit” from inside which she will be able to “couple” with the bull. This is the first of Daedalus’ great accomplishments. After the union of Pasiphae and the bull, she gives birth to the terrible Minotaur, a violent half-man, half-bull creature. Minos does not have his wife’s terrible offspring slain, but instead asks Daedalus to create the Labyrinth, a maze from which the Minotaur cannot escape. This is the second of his great creations. After Daedalus and his son, Icarus are imprisoned in the Labyrinth as well (some say for helping the hero Theseus to escape; others for knowing dangerous secrets) Daedalus constructs wings for himself and his son to escape the island of Crete by air, thus marking the third of his great creations. Icarus, of course, does not following his father’s warnings and plummets to his death after flying too close to the sun, and Daedalus escapes to the island of Sicily.
Page # Annotation/Observation
19 Hot/Cold Imagery ; smell; introduction to narrative voice; details and information limited to what Stephen understands/knows at given age
20 physical smallness and delicacy
Color Imagery/ Ireland, Pope
“The third line”—Clongowes children under thirteen
“Cachou” Candy and breath freshener
“Prefects” Teachers who work as housemasters and supervise outside activities
“Greaves in his number…refectory.” Shinguards in his locker and a private supply of treats in the dining hall.
“Eyes weak and watering” Recurrent Eye imagery (Pull out his eyes/Apologize, etc.)
21 “Peach on” tell on
“Rector” Administrative head of the college
“Soutane” Black gown with sleeves
22 Eagerness to go home…changing numbers
homicide- connections to the family
Isolation from peers…picked on
“he shivered as if he had cold slimy water next to his skin”- discomfort- later connection
23 Water imagery- cold/hot
“suck” sycophant; one who “sucks up” to a teacher
24 “York/Lancaster” Names of teams; taken from British history and the War of the Roses
“in a wax” in a rage
“first place in elements” English, math, geography, history, Latin
Mind wandering from sums to roses (poetic/sensitive nature of artist)
-Intro to Jack Lawton- competition
Apron, Cold, Damp imagery repeated…trying to make connections in world/perception
25 “It made a roar like a train at night” Use of similes at this age in order to establish connections and meaning of sensory perception.
“The higher line” boys 15-18
-No introduction to characters- appear nonchalantly as they would exist in the mind of the narrator, young Stephen. (Reader must adapt)
26 Wells as bully (no first name given)
Attempts to fit in; changes answer about kissing mother; paradox…will not be accepted regardless of answer
“Hacking chestnut” dried chestnuts were attached to strings and swung against each other. The one that didn’t break was the winner.
Connection back to water imagery; rat
27 Discovers immensity of universe; his location. Same sense of degrees as with ages of parents; begins with himself (center) and proceeds to largest conceivable.
“cod” joke
Understanding of order and structure in writing and poetry “He read the verses backwards, but they were not poetry.”
28 Explanation of location in universe- God’s real name must be God- familiar to Stephan, thoughts understanding different languages and conceptualization
29 Hot/ Cold imagery…shivering that warming up in bed… “lovely”
2nd Paragraph: Repetition of “cold”
“hob” shelf to the back or side of fireplace
31 Activity of mind as he’s in bed waiting for sleep…not relaxing but thinking
“ironingroom” place where armor was formerly stored
“Cars” horse drawn vehicles
32 Casual leap of time to holiday… confusion of temporality as child emphasis on major events. Makes reader assume it is actually happening.
–Dream of returning home, repetition of red/green imagery; parallel to Dante’s ribbons
33 “The minds of rats could not understand trigonometry” –death; absence of life, thought
Brevity of sentences “Their coats dried then. They were only dead things.”
34 “Brother Michael” A man bound to the Jesuit order by vows but not educated as a priest would be; usually assigned housekeeping duties.
35 Simile “like the long neck of a tramhorse”
Mortality “You could die just the same on a sunny day.”
“cope of black and gold” a long vestment in the colors appropriate for a funeral mass
36 “… the day was going on just as if he were there…”
“Your name is like Latin” connection with Daedalus the artificer. Further separation and distinction from peers. Comment by Athy
37 “no noise from the playground” Inability to know what others away from him are doing. Center of his own life parallel writing in book
38 Personification- waves- harbor imagery
Physical break; Home for Christmas
Death of Parnell
39 “boss” a type of hassock or footrest.
“Birthday present for Queen Victoria” Casey was probably picking oakum as hard labor in prison for political activities
40 “jack foxes” male foxes
41 Family-“little brothers and sisters”; Stephen’s gradual incorporation into “adult” family activities
“Ally Dally” the best
“pandybat” a stiff, reinforced leather strap
42 Argument over influence priests should have politically over contingency. Dante = pro influence.
44 “pope’s nose” part of the turkey’s rump
46 Eileen (playmate) is protestant
“Tower of Ivory”/ “House of Gold” epithets for the Blessed Virgin Mary from the Roman Catholic Litany of Our Lady (continues development of feminine ideal and understanding on the part of young Stephen)
47 Link between Eileen “cool white hand” and Virgin Mary
“tig” a game like hide and seek
Metaphorical blinding; eye imagery
48 Blinding imagery
49 Argument continues- worth of priests
“whiteboy” member of a group working for land and tax reform sometimes using terrorist means
50 “tearing away a cobweb”
-sees father crying
*casual shift in time from one significant moment to the next*
51 “fecked” stole
“scut” the tail of a rabbit, here meaning, “turned tail and ran”
“boatbearer” one who carries the container or incense before its lighted”
“censer” vessel in which incense is burned
52 “sprinter” someone training in short distance bicycle races
Continued bulling- broken glasses; Sight, removal of senses
“prof” captain of cricket team
“rounders” British ball game
53 “square” the school latrine or urinal
“smugging” probably a mild sort of homosexual play
Development of sexual identity, gender awareness…immediate connection to Eileen
End of page, “By thinking of things, you could understand them”
54 “Calico Belly” joke on Ceasar’s Comentarii de Bello Gallico (Commentaries on the Gallic Wars)
“six and eight” number of blows with the strap given for punishment
“prefect of studies” assistant to the rector in charge of academics
56 Concern for humanity- punishment distasteful.
57 “monstrance” vessel of precious metal in which the host is displayed
“But God was not in the course when they stole it…”
“The day of your first communion is the happiest day of your life.”
58 Was it a sin for the father to be mad?
61 Gives into cry after flogging
63 Urged to tell rector- warning not to “peach”
65 Blinding; darkness of corridor
66 “Saint Ignatius Loyola” founder of Society or Jesus (Jesuit Order)
“Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam” For the Greater Glory of God (the Jesuit Motto) Students in Jesuit schools might abbreviate the phrase “AMDG” and attach it to their compositions
“swallowed down the thing in his throat”
68 Momentary acceptance of crowd for telling on Father Dolan- perfect
Conmee – Rector at Clongowes
69 “gallnuts” rounded growths on trees caused by insects
“long shies” long hits by the batsman in cricket.
End with simile describing cricket
“like drops of water in a fountain falling softly in the burning bowl.” Connection of simile back to earlier water imagery; rebirth/ purification…etc
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Portrait notes
So, Curry suckered me into judging debate after school and I didn't get notes posted. Please go to April posts from last year, and you will find notes for chapter one.
Friday, March 29, 2013
Introduction reading due Tuesday
For those of you who did not receive copies of the introduction the Friday before Spring Break, here are the four pages of reading:
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Send me an email if you encounter any problems accessing.
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Page 4
Send me an email if you encounter any problems accessing.
Friday, March 22, 2013
Due Tuesday, 4/2
Please read the introduction to Portrait of the Artist as a Young man (handout).
Wuthering Heights Critical Essay Assignment
You must find and read 1 critical essay written about Wuthering Heights. Your essays can come from the internet (please include citation for the website address), a literary journal, the back of a copy the novel (if included) or the introduction to the novel if long enough.
If you choose to use an essay from the internet, it must be from a reputable, academic source. This excludes essays from Sparknotes, Echeats, Purple monkey, Debbie’s Book Report Grade 8, etc. JSTOR is probably your best bet.
Then you must write a 2-3 page evaluation of each essay. Your evaluation should include a summary of the thesis/argument of the essay you read (use quotations to refer to this) as well as your personal opinion on the validity of these points. You will also want to make sure you support your opinion with quotations from WH.
Pay special attention to the language used by the authors of the critical essay—this is a chance for you to experience the language of literary analysis and learn from it stylistically
Please follow MLA formatting and maintain formal (no 1st person) voice.
Wuthering Heights Critical Essay Assignment
You must find and read 1 critical essay written about Wuthering Heights. Your essays can come from the internet (please include citation for the website address), a literary journal, the back of a copy the novel (if included) or the introduction to the novel if long enough.
If you choose to use an essay from the internet, it must be from a reputable, academic source. This excludes essays from Sparknotes, Echeats, Purple monkey, Debbie’s Book Report Grade 8, etc. JSTOR is probably your best bet.
Then you must write a 2-3 page evaluation of each essay. Your evaluation should include a summary of the thesis/argument of the essay you read (use quotations to refer to this) as well as your personal opinion on the validity of these points. You will also want to make sure you support your opinion with quotations from WH.
Pay special attention to the language used by the authors of the critical essay—this is a chance for you to experience the language of literary analysis and learn from it stylistically
Please follow MLA formatting and maintain formal (no 1st person) voice.
Friday, March 1, 2013
Drama Test Information
Drama Test Study Guide
Works covered: Oedipus, Hamlet, Tartuffe, A Doll’s House, Death of a Salesman, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (A Raisin in the Sun will be eligible for essays, but sadly untested due to my lack of time to revise the test at the present time).
Authors of all of the plays
All character names (correct spelling preferred—or at least close)
Drama Terms
o aside, soliloquy, monologue, dramatic irony
Greek Drama Terms, development of, and general knowledge
o Hubris, harmartia, peripeteia, epiphany, catharsis, stichomythia
o Aristotle and Aristotelian Unities (Time, location, plot)
o Thespis, Aeschylus, Sophocles
Shakespearean Drama Terms and general knowledge
o Groundlings foil
Test format:
90 Questions (Mostly fill in the blank)
20 True/False Questions
5 event timeline questions for each play
Quotations identification
Term identification
Works covered: Oedipus, Hamlet, Tartuffe, A Doll’s House, Death of a Salesman, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (A Raisin in the Sun will be eligible for essays, but sadly untested due to my lack of time to revise the test at the present time).
Authors of all of the plays
All character names (correct spelling preferred—or at least close)
Drama Terms
o aside, soliloquy, monologue, dramatic irony
Greek Drama Terms, development of, and general knowledge
o Hubris, harmartia, peripeteia, epiphany, catharsis, stichomythia
o Aristotle and Aristotelian Unities (Time, location, plot)
o Thespis, Aeschylus, Sophocles
Shakespearean Drama Terms and general knowledge
o Groundlings foil
Test format:
90 Questions (Mostly fill in the blank)
20 True/False Questions
5 event timeline questions for each play
Quotations identification
Term identification
Friday, February 22, 2013
Due Monday, Feb 25th
Be prepared to discuss Act I of A Raisin in the Sun. (Available in you textbook.) This text is still under copyright, so I don't believe it is available for free online.
Also, please make sure you have made plans for your book buddy for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. You will want to be through Act I by Wednesday (just in case) or Thursday.
Also, please make sure you have made plans for your book buddy for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. You will want to be through Act I by Wednesday (just in case) or Thursday.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Assignments
Due Friday:
Have Act I read of Death of a Salesman.
Due Monday:
- Be finished Reading Death of a Salesman.
- Turn in practice essay below.
Essay assignment:
Write an open ended essay on the following prompt topic. You may choose to limit your time to only 40 minutes; however, you may also type this assignment if you do not prefer to write it by hand.
You essay must be based on A Doll House.
Prompt:
In a literary work, a minor character, often known as a foil, possesses traits that emphasize, by contrast or comparison, the distinctive characteristics and qualities of the main character. For example, the ideas or behavior of a minor character might be used to highlight the weaknesses or strengths of the main character. Choose a novel or play in which a minor character serves as a foil for the main character. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the relation between the minor character and the major character illuminates the meaning of the work.
Have Act I read of Death of a Salesman.
Due Monday:
- Be finished Reading Death of a Salesman.
- Turn in practice essay below.
Essay assignment:
Write an open ended essay on the following prompt topic. You may choose to limit your time to only 40 minutes; however, you may also type this assignment if you do not prefer to write it by hand.
You essay must be based on A Doll House.
Prompt:
In a literary work, a minor character, often known as a foil, possesses traits that emphasize, by contrast or comparison, the distinctive characteristics and qualities of the main character. For example, the ideas or behavior of a minor character might be used to highlight the weaknesses or strengths of the main character. Choose a novel or play in which a minor character serves as a foil for the main character. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the relation between the minor character and the major character illuminates the meaning of the work.
Friday, February 8, 2013
Due Monday, 2/11
Reading due for Monday: Act I of A Doll House. This text is available in your textbook, or a link is available here. (This translation may be slightly different than the one in your book.)
We will be finishing the play for Wednesday, so feel free to read more over the weekend if you know that your homework time will be limited during the week.
We will be finishing the play for Wednesday, so feel free to read more over the weekend if you know that your homework time will be limited during the week.
Friday, January 18, 2013
More Finals Info
See previous post for final exam description and breakdown.
Semester 1 Reading List
Poetry
Essays:
Modest Proposal
Living Like Weasels
Battle of the Ants
“Cub” Wants to be a Pilot
Once More to the Lake
Short Stories
Yellow Wallpaper
Young Goodman Brown
Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
A Rose for Emily
Metamorphosis
Good Country People
Araby
Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Plays:
Oedipus
Hamlet
Semester 1 Reading List
Poetry
Essays:
Modest Proposal
Living Like Weasels
Battle of the Ants
“Cub” Wants to be a Pilot
Once More to the Lake
Short Stories
Yellow Wallpaper
Young Goodman Brown
Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
A Rose for Emily
Metamorphosis
Good Country People
Araby
Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Plays:
Oedipus
Hamlet
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Hamlet Reread and Semester Final Info
For Friday,
1. Perform a level 1 review of Act IV through scene 4.
2. Perform a level 2 review of the Hamlet's speech Act IV scene 4 line 35 "How all occasions do inform against me..."
3. No marking the text required.
Your final will consist of a passage analysis essay (Shakespearean passage) and an objective, fill in the blank component. Study guide available here.
1. Perform a level 1 review of Act IV through scene 4.
2. Perform a level 2 review of the Hamlet's speech Act IV scene 4 line 35 "How all occasions do inform against me..."
3. No marking the text required.
Your final will consist of a passage analysis essay (Shakespearean passage) and an objective, fill in the blank component. Study guide available here.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Due Wednesday
1. Perform a level one review of plot and main events of Act III scenes 1-2.
2. Perform a leve two close review of Ophelia's conversation with Hamlet immediately following the "To be speech"
3. Perform a level three review (marking the text) of Act III, scene 1, Hamlet's speech "To be or not to be..."
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.--Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.
2. Perform a leve two close review of Ophelia's conversation with Hamlet immediately following the "To be speech"
3. Perform a level three review (marking the text) of Act III, scene 1, Hamlet's speech "To be or not to be..."
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.--Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.
Monday, January 14, 2013
Due Tuesday
1. Do a level one re-read of the remainder of Act II.
2. None required.
3. Do a level three analysis of Hamlet's speech, Act II, scene 2, line 555, "Oh what a rogue and peasant slave am I..." Please mark the text, and be prepared to turn in.
Now I am alone.
O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
Is it not monstrous that this player here,
But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,
Could force his soul so to his own conceit
That from her working all his visage wann'd,
Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect,
A broken voice, and his whole function suiting
With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing!
For Hecuba!
What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her? What would he do,
Had he the motive and the cue for passion
That I have? He would drown the stage with tears
And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,
Make mad the guilty and appal the free,
Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed
The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I,
A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak,
Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause,
And can say nothing; no, not for a king,
Upon whose property and most dear life
A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward?
Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across?
Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face?
Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat,
As deep as to the lungs? who does me this?
Ha!
'Swounds, I should take it: for it cannot be
But I am pigeon-liver'd and lack gall
To make oppression bitter, or ere this
I should have fatted all the region kites
With this slave's offal: bloody, bawdy villain!
Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!
O, vengeance!
Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave,
That I, the son of a dear father murder'd,
Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,
Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words,
And fall a-cursing, like a very drab,
A scullion!
Fie upon't! foh! About, my brain! I have heard
That guilty creatures sitting at a play
Have by the very cunning of the scene
Been struck so to the soul that presently
They have proclaim'd their malefactions;
For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ. I'll have these players
Play something like the murder of my father
Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks;
I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench,
I know my course. The spirit that I have seen
May be the devil: and the devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps
Out of my weakness and my melancholy,
As he is very potent with such spirits,
Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds
More relative than this: the play 's the thing
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
2. None required.
3. Do a level three analysis of Hamlet's speech, Act II, scene 2, line 555, "Oh what a rogue and peasant slave am I..." Please mark the text, and be prepared to turn in.
Now I am alone.
O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
Is it not monstrous that this player here,
But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,
Could force his soul so to his own conceit
That from her working all his visage wann'd,
Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect,
A broken voice, and his whole function suiting
With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing!
For Hecuba!
What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her? What would he do,
Had he the motive and the cue for passion
That I have? He would drown the stage with tears
And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,
Make mad the guilty and appal the free,
Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed
The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I,
A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak,
Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause,
And can say nothing; no, not for a king,
Upon whose property and most dear life
A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward?
Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across?
Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face?
Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat,
As deep as to the lungs? who does me this?
Ha!
'Swounds, I should take it: for it cannot be
But I am pigeon-liver'd and lack gall
To make oppression bitter, or ere this
I should have fatted all the region kites
With this slave's offal: bloody, bawdy villain!
Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!
O, vengeance!
Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave,
That I, the son of a dear father murder'd,
Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,
Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words,
And fall a-cursing, like a very drab,
A scullion!
Fie upon't! foh! About, my brain! I have heard
That guilty creatures sitting at a play
Have by the very cunning of the scene
Been struck so to the soul that presently
They have proclaim'd their malefactions;
For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ. I'll have these players
Play something like the murder of my father
Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks;
I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench,
I know my course. The spirit that I have seen
May be the devil: and the devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps
Out of my weakness and my melancholy,
As he is very potent with such spirits,
Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds
More relative than this: the play 's the thing
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Friday, January 11, 2013
Due Monday, 1/14
1. Do a level one review of plot events of Act II, scenes 1 and 2, stopping before the players enter.(around line 380).
2. Do a level two reading (think carefully about literal and analytical ideas) of Act II, scene 2, Hamlet's speech beginning with "I will tell you what, so shall my anticipation prevent your discovery", but focusing on the "Oh what a piece of work is man..." portion.
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!
how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how
express and admirable! in action how like an angel!
in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the
world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me,
what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not
me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling
you seem to say so.
3. No marking the text required.
2. Do a level two reading (think carefully about literal and analytical ideas) of Act II, scene 2, Hamlet's speech beginning with "I will tell you what, so shall my anticipation prevent your discovery", but focusing on the "Oh what a piece of work is man..." portion.
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!
how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how
express and admirable! in action how like an angel!
in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the
world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me,
what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not
me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling
you seem to say so.
3. No marking the text required.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Due 1/11
1. Review plot events for scenes 3, 4, and 5 of Act I.
2. Review the following speeches, practicing our close text (literal summary and analysis techniques) in your head. You do not need to write anything down, but can if you choose.
- Act I, scene 3, Laertes' speech "Think it no more/For nature crescent does not grow alone"
3. No marking the text required.
Also, since I'm actually remembering to post information:
Hamlet Research Paper Information
(Due January 25th)
You must find and read 1 critical essays written about Hamlet. Your essays can come from the internet, a literary journal, the back of a copy the play (if included) or the introduction to the play if long enough. JSTOR would be an excellent resource for this assignment; please ask if you need login or other JSTOR information.
If you choose to use an essay from the internet, it must be from a reputable, academic source. This excludes essays from Sparknotes, Echeats, Purple monkey, Debbie’s Book Report Grade 8, etc.
Then you must write a 2-3 page evaluation of the essay. Your evaluation should include a summary of the thesis/argument of the essay you read (use quotations to refer to this) as well as your personal reaction to the validity of these points. Your summary portion should not exceed half of your total length. Please be sure to maintain a 3rd person formal voice even though you are expressing your opinion. You will also want to make sure you support your reaction/opinion with quotations from Hamlet.
Pay special attention to the language used by the authors of the critical essay. This is a chance for you to experience the language of literary analysis and learn from it stylistically. It is also a chance for you to research an aspect of Hamlet that you find personally interesting: gender relationships, minor characters, etc.
Please use MLA formatting and include a works cited. (You will not, however, lose any points for formatting errors). Hallelujah!
2. Review the following speeches, practicing our close text (literal summary and analysis techniques) in your head. You do not need to write anything down, but can if you choose.
- Act I, scene 3, Laertes' speech "Think it no more/For nature crescent does not grow alone"
3. No marking the text required.
Also, since I'm actually remembering to post information:
Hamlet Research Paper Information
(Due January 25th)
You must find and read 1 critical essays written about Hamlet. Your essays can come from the internet, a literary journal, the back of a copy the play (if included) or the introduction to the play if long enough. JSTOR would be an excellent resource for this assignment; please ask if you need login or other JSTOR information.
If you choose to use an essay from the internet, it must be from a reputable, academic source. This excludes essays from Sparknotes, Echeats, Purple monkey, Debbie’s Book Report Grade 8, etc.
Then you must write a 2-3 page evaluation of the essay. Your evaluation should include a summary of the thesis/argument of the essay you read (use quotations to refer to this) as well as your personal reaction to the validity of these points. Your summary portion should not exceed half of your total length. Please be sure to maintain a 3rd person formal voice even though you are expressing your opinion. You will also want to make sure you support your reaction/opinion with quotations from Hamlet.
Pay special attention to the language used by the authors of the critical essay. This is a chance for you to experience the language of literary analysis and learn from it stylistically. It is also a chance for you to research an aspect of Hamlet that you find personally interesting: gender relationships, minor characters, etc.
Please use MLA formatting and include a works cited. (You will not, however, lose any points for formatting errors). Hallelujah!
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Due Thursday, 1/10
There are three levels of review that you will be performing, listed in order of most basic to most complicated. Only on the third listed below, do you have to write anything down, although you are welcome to mark close text reading for those speeches listed under step 2 below if you want to go the extra mile.
1. Review plot events for scenes 1 and 2 of Act I.
2. Review the following speeches, practicing our close text (literal summary and analysis techniques) in your head. You do not need to write anything down, but can if you choose. (This is similar to what we practiced on the Henry V speech before break.)
- Act I, scene ii beginning speech by King Claudius: "Though yet our memory..."
- Act I, scene ii, speech by Hamlet: "Seems madam? Nay, it is"
3. Mark close text observations on the following speech, using your left margin for literal summary and your right for analytical analysis and associative thinking. If you are using an etext (or don't want to write in your book), I'll include the passage below so you can copy and paste and print it for ease of marking the text.
- Act I, scene ii, speech by King Claudius: "'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature Hamlet..."
KING CLAUDIUS
'Tis sweet and co
mmendable in your nature, Hamlet,
To give these mourning duties to your father:
But, you must know, your father lost a father;
That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound
In filial obligation for some term
To do obsequious sorrow: but to persever
In obstinate condolement is a course
Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief;
It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,
A heart unfortified, a mind impatient,
An understanding simple and unschool'd:
For what we know must be and is as common
As any the most vulgar thing to sense,
Why should we in our peevish opposition
Take it to heart? Fie! 'tis a fault to heaven,
A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,
To reason most absurd: whose common theme
Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried,
From the first corse till he that died to-day,
'This must be so.' We pray you, throw to earth
This unprevailing woe, and think of us
As of a father: for let the world take note,
You are the most immediate to our throne;
And with no less nobility of love
Than that which dearest father bears his son,
Do I impart toward you. For your intent
In going back to school in Wittenberg,
It is most retrograde to our desire:
And we beseech you, bend you to remain
Here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye,
Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son.
1. Review plot events for scenes 1 and 2 of Act I.
2. Review the following speeches, practicing our close text (literal summary and analysis techniques) in your head. You do not need to write anything down, but can if you choose. (This is similar to what we practiced on the Henry V speech before break.)
- Act I, scene ii beginning speech by King Claudius: "Though yet our memory..."
- Act I, scene ii, speech by Hamlet: "Seems madam? Nay, it is"
3. Mark close text observations on the following speech, using your left margin for literal summary and your right for analytical analysis and associative thinking. If you are using an etext (or don't want to write in your book), I'll include the passage below so you can copy and paste and print it for ease of marking the text.
- Act I, scene ii, speech by King Claudius: "'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature Hamlet..."
KING CLAUDIUS
'Tis sweet and co
mmendable in your nature, Hamlet,
To give these mourning duties to your father:
But, you must know, your father lost a father;
That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound
In filial obligation for some term
To do obsequious sorrow: but to persever
In obstinate condolement is a course
Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief;
It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,
A heart unfortified, a mind impatient,
An understanding simple and unschool'd:
For what we know must be and is as common
As any the most vulgar thing to sense,
Why should we in our peevish opposition
Take it to heart? Fie! 'tis a fault to heaven,
A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,
To reason most absurd: whose common theme
Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried,
From the first corse till he that died to-day,
'This must be so.' We pray you, throw to earth
This unprevailing woe, and think of us
As of a father: for let the world take note,
You are the most immediate to our throne;
And with no less nobility of love
Than that which dearest father bears his son,
Do I impart toward you. For your intent
In going back to school in Wittenberg,
It is most retrograde to our desire:
And we beseech you, bend you to remain
Here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye,
Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son.
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