Character Identity
Sentence Answers
Quote significance
Mini-essay question
Movie question
Study your green sheet - hand in Friday, Dec. 1
Study your notes
Phone friend and quiz on theme, character, and quotes
Thursday, November 30, 2017
Lit 12 - Nov. 30
Complete all SCENE NOTES for III
Ask me about my Christmas idea
M. 4 - Finish Discussing III Act out IV - Scene Assignment
T. 5 - Act out/Discuss IV
W. 6 - Discuss IV
T. 7 - Discuss IV
F. 8 - Act out V
T. 12 - Soliloquy Presentations
W. 13 - Discuss V- themes
T. 14 - Scenes
F. 15 - movie
M. 18 - fishbowl
T. 19 - movie
W. 20 - In-class essay
T. 21 - Quote Test
F. 22 - Merry Xmas
Ask me about my Christmas idea
M. 4 - Finish Discussing III Act out IV - Scene Assignment
T. 5 - Act out/Discuss IV
W. 6 - Discuss IV
T. 7 - Discuss IV
F. 8 - Act out V
T. 12 - Soliloquy Presentations
W. 13 - Discuss V- themes
T. 14 - Scenes
F. 15 - movie
M. 18 - fishbowl
T. 19 - movie
W. 20 - In-class essay
T. 21 - Quote Test
F. 22 - Merry Xmas
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Eng. 9 - Nov. 29
Finish reading the novel - one question or quote per chapter- 23- 30 (Thurs. Nov. 30
Test: Monday, Dec. 4
Test: Monday, Dec. 4
Monday, November 27, 2017
Hamlet Dates - Lit 12
For Tues. 28 - Discuss II (Scene Notes Due)
T. 12 - Soliloquy Presentations
W. 13 - Discuss V- themes
T. 14 - Scenes
F. 15 - movie
M. 18 - movie
T. 19 - fishbowl
W. 20 - In-class essay
T. 21 - Quote Test
F. 22 - Merry Xmas
T. 12 - Soliloquy Presentations
W. 13 - Discuss V- themes
T. 14 - Scenes
F. 15 - movie
M. 18 - movie
T. 19 - fishbowl
W. 20 - In-class essay
T. 21 - Quote Test
F. 22 - Merry Xmas
Thursday, November 23, 2017
Eng. 11 - Nov. 23
BRING MONEY AND FORMS FOR FIELD TRIP
Racism, Hope, Identity
November 23, 2017
1:42 PM
Make sure you have a strong thesis for all three topics - think of three points for each thesis, make up your quote sheet (include page numbers)
What does Indian Horse show us about human nature and (a) discrimination, or (b) identity, or (c) hope?
Make sure you check your "Writing Improvements" sheet and your class feedback.
THE PURPOSE OF A LITERARY ESSAY: Looking at the text as a work of art, demonstrating clear critical judgment and explaining to the reader of your essay how the enjoyment of the text is assisted by literary devices, linguistic effects and psychological insights; showing how the text relates to the time when it was written and how it extends to our society now.
What does Indian Horse show us about ______________________and human nature?
Eg. How does racism affect Saul and other First Nations people?
Don't just give examples of racism - explain how it works - the nature of it.
Racism
- Some people in novel have a superiority complex - nuns, fans, team members
- Sister Ignacia, calling people's names "heathen"
p. 78 "we brought you here to cure you of your heathen ways"
- White people think hockey is "their game"
- "white ice, white players" (141)
- "Thirteen's good for an Indian"
- "we don't eat with Indians" (Ch. 31)
- "eat like white people"
- Chapter 38 "I'm the Indian, that's all they see"
- Resorts to violence
- Loses the ability to see visions
- Manitouwadge - treated very badly - Saul doesn't react
- His co-workers take umbrage at Saul reading and being silent and not reacting
- Starts drinking [what put him over the edge?]
- Goes from drinking and telling stories to drinking and passing out
- Bullied
- Works harder
- Entire reason for Residential schools = racism
- "you're here to work like us"
- Chapter 29 - kicked off of team because even though Saul is better, parents don't want an "Indian" to take their son's ice time
- What about the NHL?
- [Why are people racist? How can it change? How can we move forward? Will humans always be racist?]
- What enabled the abuse in Residential schools - seen as less human "savages"
- Symbol - lye soap
- Lonnie's replacement of name
Hope
- What happens when people have no hope?
- How does hope change people's lives?
- Eg. Benjamin comes back = hope
- 189 - "drinking down" - drinking is a depressant
- Drinking puts him in a hole of temporary relief -seems hopeful
- Drinking gives him a little bit of hope
- Excessive drinking - lack of hope
- Easier to focus on drinking (avoid thinking and feeling)
- Erv
- Escaping problems - don't feel hopelessness for a second
- Family = hope
- New Dawn Center
- Hockey is a hope to keep him going when he first starts playing
- 96 "the game offers him a chance at a better life"
- Chapter 19 - "I knew that loneliness…"
- Nature helps - God's Lake
- Chapter 19 "in the world that hockey had created, I gained a new home"
- He felt love
- [how much does love have to do with hope?]
- Crowd cheering for Saul - (down 5 goals and Saul brings up the score) - restores hope because they used to boo him all the time
- Doesn't completely give up until he's a young adult
- [what makes him lose all hope? When does he fully change? Why?]
- Kids that went to Residential school didn't have a way to lose stress - Saul has hockey
- Was hopeless until he found hockey
- What about Saul's parents?
- Some of the kids (children) killed themselves
- Hope can come from surprising places
- Saul returns to Manitouwadge to coach - is this hopeful?
- God's Lake = symbol for hope (vision)
- Beginning of novel went to God's Lake to find an escape and live a better life - full circle - Saul relieves his time there - sees his vision - finds a sense of renwal
- [how is the eagle feather important?]
- ["you reclaim things the most when you give them away"(213) is this true? Does this bring Saul hope?
- "all of us have pride, you just need to remember you have it" - Erv saves Saul's life - hope comes to Saul (183) - Saul is at his lowest point when Erv finds him
- "Your father is your Heavenly Father now." (45)
- Kids don't believe the religion
Identity
- How do the problems with identity connect with our current situation
- Truth and Reconciliation
- Help find indigenous people's identity - reconcile - who were our FN people before residential schools
- 193 - "I knew exactly where I was going" - important Saul knows he's going to find out what his history/identity is - cultural history
- [mother is Christian - his mother wasn't clear on her identity - Saul is closer to his grandmother]
- [land is an important part of anyone's identity - but especially FN people who were/are not nomadic - never thought to leave Manitouwadge]
- Forget who they are at a young age - residential school to "cleave the Indian from them" - think of the soap
- 24 "It felt like they were trying to remove our skin" - more than just dirt
- Culture, family, traditions, language [food]
- Mistreatment - not able tor practice traditions or speak language - practice "white culture" - Christian religion
- People who have been discriminated against in the past are trying to reclaim their culture
- "I offered my thanks aloud in Ojibwe prayer" - at God's Lake
- Lonnie even loses his original name
- Rebecca stabs herself in the stomach singing Ojibwe funeral song
- Saul felt like he gave up himself when he started fighting ("a goon")
- Rebecca kills herself as a way of resisting the white people's influence - she sings - keeps her identity
- Hockey becomes Saul's identity
- [how does Father Leboutilier help shape or take away Saul's identity? Does sexual abuse change people's identity? We don't hear much about Saul and romantic partners - could there be a reason?]
- What happens to Saul's identity when he leaves hockey
- [what does Saul coaching tell us about his identity?]
- Goes back to St. Jerome's and started crying
- Mom? Dad? Grandma? Benjamin? Shabogeesick?
- 186 - doesn't have dreams anymore - lost
- 1888 "the taste of another dried up dream in my throat" - dream is to find out who he truly is
- Does he know his identity at the end of the novel?
- 219 - stepped on the ice "when you miss a thing it leaves a hole that only the thing that you miss can fill"
- Harmony between being a hockey player and not being a hockey player at the same time
- Connects his original identity
- Stepping on the ice - him going back as a child
Racism, Hope, Identity
November 23, 2017
1:42 PM
Make sure you have a strong thesis for all three topics - think of three points for each thesis, make up your quote sheet (include page numbers)
What does Indian Horse show us about human nature and (a) discrimination, or (b) identity, or (c) hope?
Make sure you check your "Writing Improvements" sheet and your class feedback.
THE PURPOSE OF A LITERARY ESSAY: Looking at the text as a work of art, demonstrating clear critical judgment and explaining to the reader of your essay how the enjoyment of the text is assisted by literary devices, linguistic effects and psychological insights; showing how the text relates to the time when it was written and how it extends to our society now.
What does Indian Horse show us about ______________________and human nature?
Eg. How does racism affect Saul and other First Nations people?
Don't just give examples of racism - explain how it works - the nature of it.
Racism
- Some people in novel have a superiority complex - nuns, fans, team members
- Sister Ignacia, calling people's names "heathen"
p. 78 "we brought you here to cure you of your heathen ways"
- White people think hockey is "their game"
- "white ice, white players" (141)
- "Thirteen's good for an Indian"
- "we don't eat with Indians" (Ch. 31)
- "eat like white people"
- Chapter 38 "I'm the Indian, that's all they see"
- Resorts to violence
- Loses the ability to see visions
- Manitouwadge - treated very badly - Saul doesn't react
- His co-workers take umbrage at Saul reading and being silent and not reacting
- Starts drinking [what put him over the edge?]
- Goes from drinking and telling stories to drinking and passing out
- Bullied
- Works harder
- Entire reason for Residential schools = racism
- "you're here to work like us"
- Chapter 29 - kicked off of team because even though Saul is better, parents don't want an "Indian" to take their son's ice time
- What about the NHL?
- [Why are people racist? How can it change? How can we move forward? Will humans always be racist?]
- What enabled the abuse in Residential schools - seen as less human "savages"
- Symbol - lye soap
- Lonnie's replacement of name
Hope
- What happens when people have no hope?
- How does hope change people's lives?
- Eg. Benjamin comes back = hope
- 189 - "drinking down" - drinking is a depressant
- Drinking puts him in a hole of temporary relief -seems hopeful
- Drinking gives him a little bit of hope
- Excessive drinking - lack of hope
- Easier to focus on drinking (avoid thinking and feeling)
- Erv
- Escaping problems - don't feel hopelessness for a second
- Family = hope
- New Dawn Center
- Hockey is a hope to keep him going when he first starts playing
- 96 "the game offers him a chance at a better life"
- Chapter 19 - "I knew that loneliness…"
- Nature helps - God's Lake
- Chapter 19 "in the world that hockey had created, I gained a new home"
- He felt love
- [how much does love have to do with hope?]
- Crowd cheering for Saul - (down 5 goals and Saul brings up the score) - restores hope because they used to boo him all the time
- Doesn't completely give up until he's a young adult
- [what makes him lose all hope? When does he fully change? Why?]
- Kids that went to Residential school didn't have a way to lose stress - Saul has hockey
- Was hopeless until he found hockey
- What about Saul's parents?
- Some of the kids (children) killed themselves
- Hope can come from surprising places
- Saul returns to Manitouwadge to coach - is this hopeful?
- God's Lake = symbol for hope (vision)
- Beginning of novel went to God's Lake to find an escape and live a better life - full circle - Saul relieves his time there - sees his vision - finds a sense of renwal
- [how is the eagle feather important?]
- ["you reclaim things the most when you give them away"(213) is this true? Does this bring Saul hope?
- "all of us have pride, you just need to remember you have it" - Erv saves Saul's life - hope comes to Saul (183) - Saul is at his lowest point when Erv finds him
- "Your father is your Heavenly Father now." (45)
- Kids don't believe the religion
Identity
- How do the problems with identity connect with our current situation
- Truth and Reconciliation
- Help find indigenous people's identity - reconcile - who were our FN people before residential schools
- 193 - "I knew exactly where I was going" - important Saul knows he's going to find out what his history/identity is - cultural history
- [mother is Christian - his mother wasn't clear on her identity - Saul is closer to his grandmother]
- [land is an important part of anyone's identity - but especially FN people who were/are not nomadic - never thought to leave Manitouwadge]
- Forget who they are at a young age - residential school to "cleave the Indian from them" - think of the soap
- 24 "It felt like they were trying to remove our skin" - more than just dirt
- Culture, family, traditions, language [food]
- Mistreatment - not able tor practice traditions or speak language - practice "white culture" - Christian religion
- People who have been discriminated against in the past are trying to reclaim their culture
- "I offered my thanks aloud in Ojibwe prayer" - at God's Lake
- Lonnie even loses his original name
- Rebecca stabs herself in the stomach singing Ojibwe funeral song
- Saul felt like he gave up himself when he started fighting ("a goon")
- Rebecca kills herself as a way of resisting the white people's influence - she sings - keeps her identity
- Hockey becomes Saul's identity
- [how does Father Leboutilier help shape or take away Saul's identity? Does sexual abuse change people's identity? We don't hear much about Saul and romantic partners - could there be a reason?]
- What happens to Saul's identity when he leaves hockey
- [what does Saul coaching tell us about his identity?]
- Goes back to St. Jerome's and started crying
- Mom? Dad? Grandma? Benjamin? Shabogeesick?
- 186 - doesn't have dreams anymore - lost
- 1888 "the taste of another dried up dream in my throat" - dream is to find out who he truly is
- Does he know his identity at the end of the novel?
- 219 - stepped on the ice "when you miss a thing it leaves a hole that only the thing that you miss can fill"
- Harmony between being a hockey player and not being a hockey player at the same time
- Connects his original identity
- Stepping on the ice - him going back as a child
Eng. 9 - Nov. 23
3 paragraph composition or "a week in the life" comic due: Friday, Nov. 24
QQ for Ch. 17-22 for Monday!
QQ for Ch. 17-22 for Monday!
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Eng. 11 - Nov. 21
Finish all your QQ for entire novel for Wed. 22
Fishbowl: Thurs. 23
In-Class Essay: Fri. 24
Oral Stories: Mon. 27/ Tues. 28
Fishbowl: Thurs. 23
In-Class Essay: Fri. 24
Oral Stories: Mon. 27/ Tues. 28
Implicit Association Test
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/user/agg/blindspot/indexfi.htm
Start with the insect/flower
Look up the book Blindspot
Start with the insect/flower
Look up the book Blindspot
Eng. 10 - Dates
Ch. 22-24 - Sheet for Wed. 22
Ch. 24-27 - QQ for Thurs. 23
Project: Fri. 24
Final Discussion - final sheet questions due: Mon. 27
Movie - T.28/W.29
TKAMB TEST - Th. 30
Start R and J - Friday, 1
Ch. 24-27 - QQ for Thurs. 23
Project: Fri. 24
Final Discussion - final sheet questions due: Mon. 27
Movie - T.28/W.29
TKAMB TEST - Th. 30
Start R and J - Friday, 1
Monday, November 20, 2017
Eng. 9 - Nov. 20
Writing Assignment: Write a three paragraph composition about one of the following (make sure to check past writing assignments for corrections) OR fill out the "week in your life" comic strip.
1. A time you or someone you know overcame adversity.
2. A time you helped someone with something they were struggling with.
3. A disappointment.
4. A problem in your family.
5. A time you witnessed bullying. (Why do people bully? What makes them stop?)
Due: Friday, Nov. 24
Next due date for QQ: Ch. 13-16 - Wed. Nov. 22
1. A time you or someone you know overcame adversity.
2. A time you helped someone with something they were struggling with.
3. A disappointment.
4. A problem in your family.
5. A time you witnessed bullying. (Why do people bully? What makes them stop?)
Due: Friday, Nov. 24
Next due date for QQ: Ch. 13-16 - Wed. Nov. 22
Friday, November 17, 2017
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Eng. 9 - Nov. 15
Ch. 5-8 QQ
Character and Theme Charts
Attend Thursday Peer Tutoring if you need help on your writing!
Character and Theme Charts
Attend Thursday Peer Tutoring if you need help on your writing!
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Lit 12 - Nov. 14 - Social Rules, Pride, Love
How does Austen illuminate either social rules, pride, or love, using character(s) as a vehicle?
Goal of literary essay: "Looking at the text as a work of art, demonstrating clear critical judgment and explaining to the reader of your essay how the enjoyment of the text is assisted by literary devices, linguistic effects and psychological insights; showing how the text relates to the time when it was written and how it relates to our world today.
UMBRELLA QUOTE - whether it is from a secondary source or the novel itself - what might unite your themes?
- How will you have a narrow thesis (one theme and one character?)
- What literary devices will help show your thesis (SATIRE, CHARACTER FOILS)
Pride
- Darcy - not the most prideful
- Lady Catherine - "full of herself" - puts herself above others
- In this society, Charlotte says it's acceptable to be proud if one has wealth
- Remember your goal is to show what this says about human nature
- Darcy recognizes that he has pride and that it is a weakness (40) "pride will always be in good regulation"
- Who has the least amount of pride?
- Jane seems to be without pride
- Is pride the deadliest sin?
- Secondary quotes about pride from the book Pride "Pride was widely denounced because it destroyed the cardinal virtues of courage, temperance, justice, and wisdom that buttressed the political order and made the good life possible."
- Mary's quote:
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
Is this true?
- Secondary quote from the book Pride
- Lizzy's epiphany (198) "She grew absolutely ashamed of herself… blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd"
- From Aristotle: "The proud man deserves what he claims, and if he is truly proud, never shirks from laying claim to what he deserves, since it is a vice to claim less than one deserves."
- Hubris = unwarranted and arrogant pride
- Do we allow our "upper class" people to have pride?
- To what extent to we allow people to be proud in our world
- What is Austen saying about pride in her society?
- Everyone has pride
- Collins - pride - he's proud of knowing Lady Catherine (showing Lizzy his house and mentioning the cost of everything - saying that Lizzy can just put on her best clothes, not to worry, Lady Catherine "likes to have the distinction of rank preserved" [155])
- How are our ideas of pride different from characters in P&P?
- "I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit." Darcy - Chapter 58
- Lydia - does she ruin her family? It was a close call - Jane getting engaged to Bingley erases Lydia's actions - gets forgotten instantaneously
- Wickham's pride
Social Rules
- Main theme driving this book
- All of Seinfeld based on unspoken social rules (not a show about "nothing")
- First line of novel tells us exactly how society functions
- Is Jane the ideal woman?
- Charlotte - not as naïve - shows the social rules more than every other character
- Jane "messes" up her relationship with Bingley, she does not take Charlotte's advice: "better to show more affection than she feels…"
- "love and happiness in marriage is a matter of chance" - Charlotte
- Jane internalizes her problems - only discusses her issues with Lizzy
- Pride acts as a barrier between the characters - many people's problems could be solved if the issues came out in the open
- Communication is impeded by pride
- Interesting, I find my West Van old ladies (retired) book club hide the failures of their kids from each other - taboo topic
- Entire world built around marriage - Lizzy does not accept Collin's proposal (she put her whole family at risk) selfish
- Eg. Collectivist society who value filial piety belief in arranged marriage - living in Canada where love marriages are the norm - what does one choose - allegiance to family or self?
- We live in a society that values independence - are we correct - look at the rest of the world
- In that society "rank" being "preserved" is correct - how much do we agree or disagree
- Lady Catherine is allowed to be classless, snobby, insulting ("that lady, I suppose, must be your mother" III 14 "You have a very small park here" III 14)
- Valuing concealing one's feelings (Interesting - studies comparing North American goals for adult hood with Chinese goals # 1 Chinese goal is to "be in control of one's emotions" Euro-Canadians = financial independence; #2 Chinese goal: filial piety; #2 Euro-Canadian = satisfying job
- Our society praises non-conformity (but what does Austen show us - Lizzy conforms in the end - but does Darcy?)
- Lizzy accepts her society's rules as she loses her prejudice
- Lizzy has a lot of prejudice against her society at the beginning
- Do we accept society's rules more or less as we get older?
- Lizzy is driven by her emotions to love Darcy - not her acceptance of society
- Lizzy becomes more motivated by her family's welfare as she progresses (she starts off as self-interested) - she becomes more aware of social rules
- Lizzy accepts the fact that she has to accept the rules of her society - or she will be stuck
- Growing up as people - have a larger world view
Love
- How does Austen reveal love?
- Lizzy and Darcy show love can develop over time
- Lydia (and possibly Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Bennet) mistake lust for love (actually an '80's song by a band called Images in Vogue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIr-fM1ZP9I )
- Also from the eighties: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w34vnz_LEX4 ("What is Love" by Howard Jones)
- Love between Lizzy and Jane - part of the reason Lizzy rejects Darcy because she finds out that Darcy blocked Bingley and Jane's marriage - also walked hours in the rain for her
- Also she betrays Jane by not sharing her love for Darcy - Jane - reveals her insecurities to Lizzy
- Mrs. Bennet loves her daughters - getting them married is her goal because it protects her
- Does Austen show us more familial love or romantic love
- Do we hold love to a different standard?
- We throw around the word "love" all the time
- Where does love fit in our society (we value love marriages - but is it a "matter of chance")
- Austen's society - man has the choice (society makes the rules) - now either man or woman
- Is Lizzy in love with Darcy for the entire novel? (held back by prejudice - which is vanity "not tolerable enough to tempt me")
- Soul searching
- What happens to love long-term? Will Jane and Bingley be happier? Which marriage will be happiest
- Is Charlotte's ending happy? Happiness takes different paths. Charlotte's comfortable. She enjoys her alone time. She was unselfishly helping her family. (Cultural norm)
- CONTENTMENT
- Some people never get married and never have kids - roommates
- Woman as commodity - marriage was a business arrangement
- SELF INTEREST
- PERSPECTIVE
- Charlotte wanted to be stable and help her family
- Lizzy is disappointed by Charlotte marrying for money - but she ends up marrying the richest man in the book (But are you comparing Collins to Darcy?)
- How much is Lizzy motivated by Darcy's money - remember what Mr. Bennet worries about in the end - he thinks Lizzy is marrying Darcy selflessly to help her family
- Jane also thinks Lizzy is marrying for mercenary reasons
- Mr. Bennet: "My child, let me not have the grief of seeing you unable to respect your partner in life." (III 18)
Goal of literary essay: "Looking at the text as a work of art, demonstrating clear critical judgment and explaining to the reader of your essay how the enjoyment of the text is assisted by literary devices, linguistic effects and psychological insights; showing how the text relates to the time when it was written and how it relates to our world today.
UMBRELLA QUOTE - whether it is from a secondary source or the novel itself - what might unite your themes?
- How will you have a narrow thesis (one theme and one character?)
- What literary devices will help show your thesis (SATIRE, CHARACTER FOILS)
Pride
- Darcy - not the most prideful
- Lady Catherine - "full of herself" - puts herself above others
- In this society, Charlotte says it's acceptable to be proud if one has wealth
- Remember your goal is to show what this says about human nature
- Darcy recognizes that he has pride and that it is a weakness (40) "pride will always be in good regulation"
- Who has the least amount of pride?
- Jane seems to be without pride
- Is pride the deadliest sin?
- Secondary quotes about pride from the book Pride "Pride was widely denounced because it destroyed the cardinal virtues of courage, temperance, justice, and wisdom that buttressed the political order and made the good life possible."
- Mary's quote:
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
Is this true?
- Secondary quote from the book Pride
- Lizzy's epiphany (198) "She grew absolutely ashamed of herself… blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd"
- From Aristotle: "The proud man deserves what he claims, and if he is truly proud, never shirks from laying claim to what he deserves, since it is a vice to claim less than one deserves."
- Hubris = unwarranted and arrogant pride
- Do we allow our "upper class" people to have pride?
- To what extent to we allow people to be proud in our world
- What is Austen saying about pride in her society?
- Everyone has pride
- Collins - pride - he's proud of knowing Lady Catherine (showing Lizzy his house and mentioning the cost of everything - saying that Lizzy can just put on her best clothes, not to worry, Lady Catherine "likes to have the distinction of rank preserved" [155])
- How are our ideas of pride different from characters in P&P?
- "I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit." Darcy - Chapter 58
- Lydia - does she ruin her family? It was a close call - Jane getting engaged to Bingley erases Lydia's actions - gets forgotten instantaneously
- Wickham's pride
Social Rules
- Main theme driving this book
- All of Seinfeld based on unspoken social rules (not a show about "nothing")
- First line of novel tells us exactly how society functions
- Is Jane the ideal woman?
- Charlotte - not as naïve - shows the social rules more than every other character
- Jane "messes" up her relationship with Bingley, she does not take Charlotte's advice: "better to show more affection than she feels…"
- "love and happiness in marriage is a matter of chance" - Charlotte
- Jane internalizes her problems - only discusses her issues with Lizzy
- Pride acts as a barrier between the characters - many people's problems could be solved if the issues came out in the open
- Communication is impeded by pride
- Interesting, I find my West Van old ladies (retired) book club hide the failures of their kids from each other - taboo topic
- Entire world built around marriage - Lizzy does not accept Collin's proposal (she put her whole family at risk) selfish
- Eg. Collectivist society who value filial piety belief in arranged marriage - living in Canada where love marriages are the norm - what does one choose - allegiance to family or self?
- We live in a society that values independence - are we correct - look at the rest of the world
- In that society "rank" being "preserved" is correct - how much do we agree or disagree
- Lady Catherine is allowed to be classless, snobby, insulting ("that lady, I suppose, must be your mother" III 14 "You have a very small park here" III 14)
- Valuing concealing one's feelings (Interesting - studies comparing North American goals for adult hood with Chinese goals # 1 Chinese goal is to "be in control of one's emotions" Euro-Canadians = financial independence; #2 Chinese goal: filial piety; #2 Euro-Canadian = satisfying job
- Our society praises non-conformity (but what does Austen show us - Lizzy conforms in the end - but does Darcy?)
- Lizzy accepts her society's rules as she loses her prejudice
- Lizzy has a lot of prejudice against her society at the beginning
- Do we accept society's rules more or less as we get older?
- Lizzy is driven by her emotions to love Darcy - not her acceptance of society
- Lizzy becomes more motivated by her family's welfare as she progresses (she starts off as self-interested) - she becomes more aware of social rules
- Lizzy accepts the fact that she has to accept the rules of her society - or she will be stuck
- Growing up as people - have a larger world view
Love
- How does Austen reveal love?
- Lizzy and Darcy show love can develop over time
- Lydia (and possibly Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Bennet) mistake lust for love (actually an '80's song by a band called Images in Vogue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIr-fM1ZP9I )
- Also from the eighties: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w34vnz_LEX4 ("What is Love" by Howard Jones)
- Love between Lizzy and Jane - part of the reason Lizzy rejects Darcy because she finds out that Darcy blocked Bingley and Jane's marriage - also walked hours in the rain for her
- Also she betrays Jane by not sharing her love for Darcy - Jane - reveals her insecurities to Lizzy
- Mrs. Bennet loves her daughters - getting them married is her goal because it protects her
- Does Austen show us more familial love or romantic love
- Do we hold love to a different standard?
- We throw around the word "love" all the time
- Where does love fit in our society (we value love marriages - but is it a "matter of chance")
- Austen's society - man has the choice (society makes the rules) - now either man or woman
- Is Lizzy in love with Darcy for the entire novel? (held back by prejudice - which is vanity "not tolerable enough to tempt me")
- Soul searching
- What happens to love long-term? Will Jane and Bingley be happier? Which marriage will be happiest
- Is Charlotte's ending happy? Happiness takes different paths. Charlotte's comfortable. She enjoys her alone time. She was unselfishly helping her family. (Cultural norm)
- CONTENTMENT
- Some people never get married and never have kids - roommates
- Woman as commodity - marriage was a business arrangement
- SELF INTEREST
- PERSPECTIVE
- Charlotte wanted to be stable and help her family
- Lizzy is disappointed by Charlotte marrying for money - but she ends up marrying the richest man in the book (But are you comparing Collins to Darcy?)
- How much is Lizzy motivated by Darcy's money - remember what Mr. Bennet worries about in the end - he thinks Lizzy is marrying Darcy selflessly to help her family
- Jane also thinks Lizzy is marrying for mercenary reasons
- Mr. Bennet: "My child, let me not have the grief of seeing you unable to respect your partner in life." (III 18)
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Eng. 9 - Nov. 8
Finish your pic.
Read Chapters 1-4: Complete questions for each chapter and answer it. Quote one excerpt per chapter and explain its significance.
Keep track of the themes and characters.
Read Chapters 1-4: Complete questions for each chapter and answer it. Quote one excerpt per chapter and explain its significance.
Keep track of the themes and characters.
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Saturday, November 4, 2017
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
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