- raven is the bird of prophecy. They are also associated with mystery, evil, amens, and death.
- the end rhyme have similar or identical sounds at the end of each line
- internal rhyme is rhymes within a line
- rhyme scheme is the basic pattern of the end rhymes
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
The Masque of the Red Death
Allegory: ( 2 layers of meaning) an allegorical tale, most of the persons, objects, and events stand for abstract ideas or qualities. Ex; a bird might represent freedom
- The prince was fearless, wise, and happy.
- The abbey was the death house
- The series of seven rooms was all the different stages of death that they had to pass through. The seventh floor was the room of death. It was a black room with red velvet curtains.
- The clock, every time the clock would strike everybody would go silent and still so the Red Death could kill them. Death is getting closer and closer every time it chimes.
- The stranger is the ghost of death or in other words the Red Death
- Dance Macabre is the dance of death.
The scary parts of stories is the suspense and knows that its going to happen but not knowing when.
- The prince was fearless, wise, and happy.
- The abbey was the death house
- The series of seven rooms was all the different stages of death that they had to pass through. The seventh floor was the room of death. It was a black room with red velvet curtains.
- The clock, every time the clock would strike everybody would go silent and still so the Red Death could kill them. Death is getting closer and closer every time it chimes.
- The stranger is the ghost of death or in other words the Red Death
- Dance Macabre is the dance of death.
The scary parts of stories is the suspense and knows that its going to happen but not knowing when.
The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving
Kidd: the pirate, got hung, and was buried with treasure.
Tom Walker: has a wife, cheated on each other
Tom's Wife: she was a tall quarrelsome, scolding woman, fierce temper, strong.
-Tom has no fear.
- He found a cloven skull with an Indian tomahawk buried deep in it.
Deacon Peabody: owned the land, eminent man
Absalom Crowinshield: a rich buccaneer, died.
- Tom's wife disappeared into the forest and never came back. She took all the household valuables. So Tom went looking for her and saw the apron tied up in the tree, so he climbed up to get the valuables, but when he looked in, all he found was a heart and a liver.
- The devil told Tom to open a land bank so he did and got very rich.
-Tom was whisked away by a horse and died and now people say that they see a man on a horse with a white cap and a white gown.
Tom Walker: has a wife, cheated on each other
Tom's Wife: she was a tall quarrelsome, scolding woman, fierce temper, strong.
-Tom has no fear.
- He found a cloven skull with an Indian tomahawk buried deep in it.
Deacon Peabody: owned the land, eminent man
Absalom Crowinshield: a rich buccaneer, died.
- Tom's wife disappeared into the forest and never came back. She took all the household valuables. So Tom went looking for her and saw the apron tied up in the tree, so he climbed up to get the valuables, but when he looked in, all he found was a heart and a liver.
- The devil told Tom to open a land bank so he did and got very rich.
-Tom was whisked away by a horse and died and now people say that they see a man on a horse with a white cap and a white gown.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Gothic Lit Notes
Gothic Lit: characterized by grotesque characters, bizarre situations, and violent events. Came from Europe in the 19 century.
Authors: Poe & Hawthorne
Romantic Writers:
-limitation of reason
-celebrate the individual reason
-emotions
-imagination
-splendors of nature-puritans led by the fear of God
exist as/work as typical romantic preoccupation with atmosphere, sentiment, and optism.
Transcendentalism: was based on a belief that "transcendent forms" of truth exist beyond reason and experience.
Every individual is capable of discovering this higher truth on his or her own, through intuition/ opposite of what puritans would believe.
Gothic Architecture: cavernous Gothic cathedrals with their irregularly placed towers, high-stained glass windows were to inspire awe and fear.
Gargoyles are mascots of Gothic literature.
Imaginative distortion of reality.
Threshold of the unknown: shadowy region where the fantastic, demonic, and the insane reside.
Dark side of the individualism is Gothic.
When romantics see hope, Gothic thinks of potential evil.
Poe: Dark mid evil castles, decaying ancient estates setting or weird and terrifying events.
Male: Insane.
Female: Beautiful or dead or dying
Plots include extreme situation, not just murder but live burials, physical and mental torture, and retribution from beyond the grave.
Hawthorne looked at fear, greed, vanity, mistrust, and betrayal.
Authors: Poe & Hawthorne
Romantic Writers:
-limitation of reason
-celebrate the individual reason
-emotions
-imagination
-splendors of nature-puritans led by the fear of God
exist as/work as typical romantic preoccupation with atmosphere, sentiment, and optism.
Transcendentalism: was based on a belief that "transcendent forms" of truth exist beyond reason and experience.
Every individual is capable of discovering this higher truth on his or her own, through intuition/ opposite of what puritans would believe.
Gothic Architecture: cavernous Gothic cathedrals with their irregularly placed towers, high-stained glass windows were to inspire awe and fear.
Gargoyles are mascots of Gothic literature.
Imaginative distortion of reality.
Threshold of the unknown: shadowy region where the fantastic, demonic, and the insane reside.
Dark side of the individualism is Gothic.
When romantics see hope, Gothic thinks of potential evil.
Poe: Dark mid evil castles, decaying ancient estates setting or weird and terrifying events.
Male: Insane.
Female: Beautiful or dead or dying
Plots include extreme situation, not just murder but live burials, physical and mental torture, and retribution from beyond the grave.
Hawthorne looked at fear, greed, vanity, mistrust, and betrayal.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Gothic Literature-Gothic Literature, Romanticism, Transcendentalism
Gothic Literature: is a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. As a genre, it is generally believed to have been invented by the English author Horace Walpole with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_fiction)
Melodrama and parody were also some of the features that Horace wanted to have readers get across in his novels.
Prominent features of Gothic fiction include terror (both psychological and physical), mystery, the supernatural, ghosts, haunted houses and Gothic Arc., castles, darkness, death, decay, etc.
Characters of Gothic fiction include tyrants, villains,bandits, maniacs, madwoman, vampires, werewolves, monsters, demons, the beauty and the beasts, and the devil.
This literary genre found its most natural settings in the very tall buildings of the Gothic style, often spelled "Gothick", to highlight their "medievalness" - castles, mansions, and monasteries, often remote, crumbling, and ruined.
(http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/rom.html)
Romanticism doesn't have much to do with the world romantic, although love may occasionally be the subject of romantic art. It is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world.
It is one of the curiosities of literary history that the strongholds of the Romantic Movement were England and Germany, not the countries of the romance languages themselves. The Romantic period, began in 1798, the year of the first edition of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge and of the composition of Hymns to the Night by Novalis, and ending in 1832, the year which marked the deaths of both Sir Walter Scott and Goethe.
(http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/t/transcendentalism.html)
Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas from the literature, religion, culture, and philosophy that emerged in New England in the early to middle 19th century.
Transcendentalists are understood by what they were rebelling against, what they saw as the current situation and therefore as what they were trying to be different from.In America "transcendentalism" was mostly used in a literary form having a semireligious nature.
The formation of the movement was in 1836 with the establishment of the Transcendental Club of Boston, Massachusetts. The early transcendentalists included the essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, the feminist, s ocial reformer, and author Margaret Fuller, a minister Theodore Parker, and the naturalist and author Henry David Thoreau.
Melodrama and parody were also some of the features that Horace wanted to have readers get across in his novels.
Prominent features of Gothic fiction include terror (both psychological and physical), mystery, the supernatural, ghosts, haunted houses and Gothic Arc., castles, darkness, death, decay, etc.
Characters of Gothic fiction include tyrants, villains,bandits, maniacs, madwoman, vampires, werewolves, monsters, demons, the beauty and the beasts, and the devil.
This literary genre found its most natural settings in the very tall buildings of the Gothic style, often spelled "Gothick", to highlight their "medievalness" - castles, mansions, and monasteries, often remote, crumbling, and ruined.
Romanticism doesn't have much to do with the world romantic, although love may occasionally be the subject of romantic art. It is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world.
It is one of the curiosities of literary history that the strongholds of the Romantic Movement were England and Germany, not the countries of the romance languages themselves. The Romantic period, began in 1798, the year of the first edition of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge and of the composition of Hymns to the Night by Novalis, and ending in 1832, the year which marked the deaths of both Sir Walter Scott and Goethe.
(http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/t/transcendentalism.html)
Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas from the literature, religion, culture, and philosophy that emerged in New England in the early to middle 19th century.
Transcendentalists are understood by what they were rebelling against, what they saw as the current situation and therefore as what they were trying to be different from.In America "transcendentalism" was mostly used in a literary form having a semireligious nature.
The formation of the movement was in 1836 with the establishment of the Transcendental Club of Boston, Massachusetts. The early transcendentalists included the essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, the feminist, s ocial reformer, and author Margaret Fuller, a minister Theodore Parker, and the naturalist and author Henry David Thoreau.
Friday, September 25, 2009
ACT 4: Darforth and Hawtorn visit Parris in the jail and ask why Hale has come back to Salem. He says that Hale just wants to have the girls confess that what they've done is wrong and that nothing here is witchcraft. Abigail and Mercy have run away from Salem after robbing him. A lot of the houses in Salem has gone to nothing because many of their home owners are in jail. Now everyone lives in fear because they are all scared that they will get accused of being a witch. Elizabeth tries and gets John to confess and tells him that 100 people have confessed of being a part of witchcraft and that Giles got killed by being crushed by stones, even though he never confessed he was guilty or not. It was either he confessed and got hung or didn't and got killed anyway. So when you got accused you were either put in jail for sometime or hung. After thinking for sometime if John should confess. He decided that he will confess. They grab the paper for him to sign and he asks why he has to sign a paper and they tell him it will be hung on the church door. They try and get him to speak out if he saw anyone else there and he says that he will not say anyone else but his own sins. He doesn't want to sign the paper but under pressure he knows he has to so he gets the paper. John tells him he doesn't want his name hung on the church door. They start arguing and John grabs the paper and rips it into 2. John and 7 others get led into the gallows and gets killed. Later, Parris is voted out of office and has to leave Salem. It was heard that Abigail became a prositute in Boston. A few years later Elizabeth remarries.
ACT 3: They are all in court now and John and Mary enter the room saying that the girls have all been faking it and they haven't seen anything or done anything to anyone. They just think that John is trying to overrun the court but all John wants to do is set his wife free. But Darthforth just thinks that he is still trying to take over and that he yelled at Hale about accusing his wife. So they question him about his religous beliefs again and that he only attends church once a year. Also that he plows on Sundays, which is a big no no in Salem. Elizabeth claims that she is pregnant so they know that she can't get hung or put in jail. Abigail denys everything that Mary has told the court. And then Proctor jumps at Abigail and calls her a whore. He confesses to the court that he had sexual relations with Abigail. Proctor claims that Abigail is saying this and trying to get her hung because she wants to take Elizabeths place in their home. Abigail wants John all to herself. Danforth tells Abigail and John to turn their backs and he sents in Elizabeth. He asks her if John and Abigail had had any sexual relations. Elizabeth tries and looks at John but Danforth keeps telling her to look at him. She says No trying to save John but she did the wrong thing. John always says that Elizabeth never lies. They take him out because he starts yelling that he confessed his sins! Right then Abigail and all the girls start screaming that Mary's spirit is up on the rafters and its hurting them. Mary tells them to stop and they start mimiking her. Mary gets hysterical and starts screaming with them. She confesses that she was with the Devil and that that he made her do all these things and to please forgive her. Hale then says that he is quitting the court.
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