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OFOCN: Alexia, Mason, Liam, Paloma, Aja, Brax

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Viewpoints: Liam, Aja

Lit 12 - June 18

Many award winners for Student Choice Awards - All time best student attender goes from English 9, Writing 12, English 11, English 12 and Literature 12 without ever missing a class!

Study hard everyone!

Nature, Love, Religion

• To study: make your own quote sheet to memorize - I can't guarantee these quotes are word for word, so please check the primary sources

Nature

- Backdrop in all the literature
- Only thing that changes is how humans interact with it
- Restoration = materialistic (eg. Pepys' diary)
- "To a Mouse" - "I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union"
- "Apostrophe to the Ocean" - easy to notice the admiration of ocean - good imagery
- Romantic/Victorian - use nature in different ways
- Romantic = "for as I were a child of thee" ("Ocean") - respect and beauty
- Victorian = "the tide recedes" - "Dover Beach"
- Romantic = wanting to be a part of Nature ("Ode to the West Wind")
- "Apostrophe" = sublime aspect of nature - ocean has been around through the ages "time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow" "oak leviathans tossed like toys"
- Pantheism - god is everywhere - Nature is connected to God ("Ode to a Nightingale")
- "Dulce et Decorum Est" - devoid of nature - "sick as sin" "obscene as cancer, bitter as cud" - war is not concerned with nature
- Modern poems "the rocks ignore" - "Disembarking at Quebec"
- Progression in thought - Beowulf - Grendel represents natural forms - must be killed and dealt with
- Shift through time - as we understand more and become more sophisticated, our relationship with nature changes
- Progression of human evolution
- "The world is too much with us late and soon" - we are killing nature: "little we see in Nature that is ours/ we've given our hearts away"
- Victorian - muted references to nature - going away from us
- Modern - nature and we are alienated
- The nature poem? "O Wind!/ If winter comes, can spring be far behind?"
- Appreciating nature
- Childhood joy relating to nature "My Heart Leaps Up," "Wind" "Ocean" "The Lamb"
- Freedom - could be a subtheme
- Social conformity - nature helps work against the idea of having to conform (but in Beowulf conformity is necessary)
- Conformity is an interesting subtheme
- Unknown aspect of nature
- Power of nature
- "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" - promising nature as gifts
- "Whoso" = deer = human (unrequited love) - very human
- "gather ye rosebuds as ye may" = about humans and their plight
- Nature = universal symbol
- "Sir Gawain and the Green Night" - tangles of green he has to fight through to meet the Green Knight
- Any nature in The Canterbury Tales?
- "Rime" = lack of respect for nature = retribution
- Albatross significance? Not appreciated
- Nature could be supernatural (outside of human's scope)

Love

-familial love, eternal love, platonic love, friendship, romantic
- Shakespeare's sonnets -
- Unrequited love vs. requited
- "not falter"
- "If God choose I will love thee better after death" (Sonnet 43 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
- "sublunary lovers" - "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" - more than human - conceit of the compass
- "Love alters not with brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom" - Sonnet 116 - the feeling of the unchanging love
- People grow and change -
- Familial love - can wane, but it tends to be unconditional - love between a parent and a child (Hamlet and Gertrude excepted)
- "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" - "curse bless me now" - a child talking to his father about not dying
- Victorian era - "Dover Beach" = "And here we are on this darkling plain/ Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight"
- "To the Ladies" - "wife and servant are the same" "Shun, oh! Shun that wretched state/ And all the fawning flatters hate"
- Pride and Prejudice - many different kinds of love - Darcy and Elizabeth = equals; Lydia and Wickham = lust; Mr and Mrs Bennet = lust; Jane and Bingley = friendship; Charlotte and Collins = commerce; the Gardiners = equality and friendship - the custom of the time - commodification of marriage - for the upper class
- Is our perception different now - rather than through the times
- Renaissance = ideal - eternal
- "My Mistress' Eyes" = love you no matter about superficial qualities (Sonnet 130)
- "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" (Sonnet 18) - idealized - better than a summer's day
- Sonnet 29 - "When in Disgrace with Fortune's and Men's Eyes" = "Haply I think on thee, and then my state,/Like to the lark at the break of day arising/"
- "The Hollow Men" - detached - not being loved
- Love of God
- Love of nature
- "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,/ Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born" - love of God does not seem apparent
- Sonnet 43 (interesting to compare to "My Last Duchess" - the Duke openly admits to killing his first wife because she was too open and loving to the world - boughs of cherry blossoms, her white mule - everyone received the same smile - thinking about the commodification of women and marriage and the tyrannical father - like Elizabeth's)
- "I love you with my childhood faith"/ "the breath,/ Smiles, tears, of all my life!" - loving better after death - like Valediction and Sonnet 116

Religion

- Every single era addresses spirituality of religions
- Rise, peak and downfall
- Beowulf - interjected into an originally a Pagan story
- Great combination - "The Burning of Beowulf's Body"
- "God whose love [Grendel] could not know" - excellent starting point
- Grendel is a symbol of the unknown aspects of nature - but also the unknown aspects of religion
- He also represents the other - or could be the devil (Paradise Lost, "The Tiger")
- Satan "perverting" humankind
- Is Paradise Lost the peak
- Canterbury Tales - pointing out the hypocrisy
- Modern times - hard to find - lots of questioning
- Humans need to believe in something other than themselves
- WW I - loss of faith - "The Second Coming," "Dulce et Decorum Est," "The Hollow Men"
- After WW II - "The Destructors," most of your independent novels, "Pretty," "Disembarking"
- "Tiger"/"Lamb" - how could they both be by the same Creator
- "On His Blindness" - the great Taskmaster - how does this compare to "Dover Beach" - the tide of Faith recedes - Milton finds solace in "they also serve those who stand and wait" "Patience replies"
"where ignorant armies clash at night" - "Dover Beach" - no understanding, only confusion - huddled together on a darkling plain
- What about "The Darkling Thrush" - what does the thrush have to sing about on that bleak, January 1st, 1900
- Greek and Roman gods - "have sight of Proteus rising from the sea/ or hear Triton blow his writhed horn" - Pagan gods and humans at that time had more appreciation and more connection to nature
- [Pagan = not of the worlds's religion]

"Because," "Dulce et Decorum," "The Second Coming," ":The Hollow Men"

"The Second Coming"


Themes:
Disorder in Society ("The falcon cannot hear the falconer" Line 2)
Religion ("Surely the Second Coming is at hand" Line 10)
Corruption ("Things fall apart" Line 3)
Distinguishing Characteristics:
Religious undertone (allusions)
Overall tone is angry, frustrated, eager for change
Literary Devices
Allusion: "Surely the Second Coming is at hand." (Line 10) & "Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born." (Line 22)
Irony: The Second Coming should bring peace


"The Hollow Men"

Theme: unfulfillment, death

Quotes:
“In the last of meeting places/ We grope together/ And avoid speech/ Gathered on this beach of the tumid river” (lines 58-60)
“Shape without form, shade without colour;/ Paralyzed force, gesture without motion;” (lines 11-12) (Oxymoron) (Shapes without form are incapable of movement)
“Those who have crossed/ With direct eyes, to death’s other kingdom/ Remember us - of at all - not as lost/ Violent souls, but only/ As the hollow men”
“Between the idea/ And the reality/ Between the motion/ And the act/ Falls the Shadow”
“This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms” (line 56) (Allusion to Cain striking Abel with a donkey’s broken jaw bone, being cast out of the kingdom)

Notes:
Modern poetry was usually dark, with people having a pessimistic outlook on life due to the war and its effect on the world
This led people to turn away from God (how could God let this happen?) and this is shown in the multiple mentions of the afterlife being referred to as “death’s kingdom” as opposed to “God’s kingdom”
Mentions eyes a lot, in a negative connotation
Apathy a significant emotion
Allusions to Dante’s Paradiso/Inferno, Heart of Darkness, Guy Fawkes, The Lord’s Prayer, & Julius Caesar
Shadow men are in a barren landscape, possibly Fields of Asphodel
People who contrast the Hollow Men died committed and following their purpose, even if that purpose was wrong
“For Thine is the Kingdom” is part of the Bible, separate from the other parts of the poem

Literary Devices
Simile: “Are quiet and meaningless” (line 7)
Oxymoron: “Shape without form, shade without colour;” (line 11)
Cacophony: “Rat’s coat, crowskin, crossed staves” (line 32)
Epigraph: “Mistah Kurtz--he head./ A penny for the Old Guy”
Alliteration: “Prickly pear prickly pear” (line 70)
Allusion: “With direct eyes, to death’s other Kingdom” (line 14) (Dante’s Inferno)


Because I Could Not Stop For Death

A Victorian Poem


Themes


Death

Time

Afterlife


Literary Devices


Caesura (“at recess – in the Ring -”[10])

alliteration (“gazing grain”[11])

personification (“gazing grain”[11])

meter (8 beats, 6 beats, 8 beats, 6 beats. Iamb) (Stanza four is different)


Distinguishing Characteristics


Death isn't scary, he's charming. Persona accepts death without question.


The speaker pauses before a “house,” as if death is the beginning of a new life with a new home.


Very subdued, disconnected, sombre – Victorian qualities


"Dulce et Decorum Est"

Eng. 11 - June 13

For block one - complete questions for "Scaffolding," "Say, Word?" and "The Attitude" For "Scaffolding," ask your own question and answer it, find literary devices and figure out the theme

If you really want to prepare for the exam, complete the whole poetry package

block four - complete questions for "Attitude," "My Papa's Waltz," "the wundrfulness...," and "Say, Word?"

Eng. 11 - Studying for English 11 Exam

Final Exam:

editing - find the mistake in the sentences - study your editing sheets and your sentence corrections - class feedback for writing, punctuation notes.

poetry - review poetic devices - make sure you understand page 4 of the poetry package - practice by going over poems we didn't study in the package - be familiar with all poetic devices

prose - review elements of short fiction (7 sets of notes)

writing - go over your essays, essay notes, essay package and writing improvements - make a note of my individual advice

get a good night's sleep and eat a healthy breakfast and/or lunch


block 1 - D 205 - Wed. 20 at 1:00pm
block 4 - D 206 - Wed. 20 at 1:00 pm

Lit 12 - Breakdown of Exam

Breakdown of Final Exam:

20 marks - identifying 4 quotes - explaining significance in the context of whole work
15 marks - discussing literary techniques of quotes
10 marks - mini essay of specific time period
10 marks - mini - essay question of large topic
15 marks - sight reading poem
30 marks - full essay discussing whole course with a focus on three literary works

100 marks (20% of grade)



DON'T FORGET: Field Trip forms - Bard on the Beach is Thursday, June 21st

Fishbowl : Thursday, June 14 - Religion, Love, Nature (WHICIH GROUP ARE YOU?)

Friday, June 15 is a HUGELY IMPORTANT class for review

Betrayal, Morality, Ambition

Betrayal, Morality, Ambition

June 4, 2018
1:45 PM

Bring a quote sheet with no extra notes - make sure you know the Act, scene, and line number, the context, and who is speaking.


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."



Betrayal and Loyalty
-play starts with an act of betrayal - Macdonwald betrays Scotland - he is hanged
-Duncan rewards the Thane "absolute trust" - shows how important loyalty is (also that he trusts easily)
-Banquo stays loyal "so I lose none in seeking to augment it" (II i)
- The Thane stays loyal to the witches' prophecy - to his own detriment
- Strange that Fleance doesn't become king
- [witches betray the Thane with "the fiends that lie like the truth" (V)
- [is the Lady loyal?]
- What are the characters' priorities
- Macduff betrays his family and technically the country - it is considered treason (but he is getting rid of a tyrant) - Macduff stays loyal to Duncan and his offspring - convinces Malcolm to come back
- King and country are seen as synonymous (Old Scotland)
- Macduff is loyal to the people of Scotland ("bleed Scotland" IV iii)
- Beginning the Thane defends Scotland - look at I vii to see the Thane's belief
- War hero - risked his life to protect the country
- [how important is loyalty in your own life? What or whom are you loyal to? What happens when someone is disloyal to you?]
- Treatment of his wife and servants are different
- [is loyalty related to morality?]
- Leaves the Lady out of his plans after killing Duncan - he does not share his plan to kill Banquo or Macduff's family
- When is he loyal to himself? Seems like he is only loyal to the prophecy: "Thou wast born of woman!" (V vii)
-Lady stays by her husband's side throughout - fainting when the guards are killed, making excuses for the Thane's reaction to Banquo's ghost
-she doesn't order the deaths of Banquo or Macduff's family - she does know about it - sleep walking scene (V i)
Self interest, personal responsibility

Morality

-knowing the difference between right and wrong = the Thane says "look on it again I dare not" (II ii) - he can't face the scene of Duncan's death again
-compare Macduff's morality with the Thane
-Thane has some moral code - he's a war hero at the beginning [is it okay to murder people in war? Why?]
-"I am in blood stepped so far" III iv
-taking responsibility for actions [does the Thane]
-"the ends justify the means" - it does for Macduff - what he does to save the country - sacrifices his family
-consequences [what is the consequence of the Thane's actions? Does he enjoy being king]
-[what is your moral code]
-Lady sleepwalks - retribution for her guilty conscience
- Never be able to sleep peacefully again: "After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well" - referring to Duncan - III ii
- Does he ever take true responsibility for what he's done (he says "my way of life has fallen into the sear" V iii)
- Banquo doesn't tell everybody - he knows that the Thane had a prophecy - he wants his own prophecy to come true - see III i for his soliloquy
- Lady starts off asking for help from the "spirits that tend on mortal thoughts" (I v) she also says "a little water clears us of this deed" (II ii) but in Vi, "all the Perfumes of Arabia could not sweeten this little hand" - does this show that she has morality?
- The Thane says "oh, full of scorpions is my mind" (III ii) after killing Duncan - but after that he has "forgot the taste of fears" (V iii)
- He becomes aware that he has "mouth honour" only, rather than "troops of friends" (V iii)
- Temptation, greed, consequences, rewards, ill-gotten gains


Ambition

- "art not without ambition, but without the illness to attend it" - Lady says this about the Thane in I v - turns out - he does have "the illness to attend it"
- Lady's ambition starts of high to kill Duncan, but diminishes over time
- Goals change over the play -
- [there's no time mentioned in the prophecy - what's the rush? - impatience]
- Banquo has ambition - remains quiet over his own personal interest of his sons becoming king - "last night I dreamed of the three weird sisters, to you they have showed some truth" (II i)
- Banquo's prophecy is less immediate - applies to his sons, but not to him
- [how much ambition is too much ambition?]
- Ambition can drive people away - the Lady and the Thane start off close - but he does so much to protect his power that he drives all friends and family away
- Unchecked ambition
- "let not light see my deep and dark desires" (I iv) - this is when Malcolm is named Prince of Cumberland
- He must have had ambition to become the General of the King's army
- Was the Thane ever happy - he seems to become unhappier as the play develops
- [Bible quotes:
Proverbs 10:2 E
Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 1:19
Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; it takes away the life of its possessors. ]

From
- Are the witches ambitious? Why do they "trade and traffic with Macbeth" - they sabotage him in the end - Hecate thinks they wasted their powers for a "wayward son" (III v 11)
- "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which overleaps itself and falls on the other" (I vii 25-27) - the Thane is interested in gaining power
- If the Lady were so ambitious, wouldn't she have killed Duncan herself? She's ambitious enough to make someone else do her dirty work
- Banquo asks for his prophecy - but doesn't want them - he calls them "instruments of darkness" (I iii)
- Macduff's ambition - to kill the Thane "bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself;/ Within my swoard's length set him; if he 'scape,/ Heaven forgive him too: (IV iii 230-233)

Betrayal, Fate, Morality - June 4

Loyalty, Fate, Morality

May 31, 2018
10:47 AM

Bring a quote sheet with no extra notes - make sure you know the Act, scene, and line number, the context, and who is speaking.


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."

Betrayal and Loyalty

- Whom does the Thane betray? His Lady?
- He does not involve her in his plans after killing Duncan (although there is evidence she knows about his troubles - sleep walking)
- Does the Lady betray him? - she gets him to betray his own morals by convincing him to kill Duncan
-the Thane's betrayals start to bother him less and less - why?
-truth in life - things get easier - whether good or bad - we get inured to things "I am in blood stepped so far already" (III iv 137)
- In for a penny in for a pound
- Banquo - doesn't betray the Thane but (III i) it is because the prophecy might become true for him
- "I fear thou play'dst most foully for it" (III i 3-6)
- Macduff betrays the Thane to save Scotland - is he betraying Scotland? - he's committing treason (betraying the king), but he's saving Scotland from a tyrannical leader - betrays his family - picks Scotland over his family
- [what are any person's priorities? What is considered betrayal?]
- "there's daggers in men's smiles" (II iii)
- [could concentrate on just one character]
- [take a truth from life - when are you loyal? - whom are you loyal to? What tests your loyalty?]
- [king and country are synonymous -killing the king is like killing the country]
- "fair is foul and foul is fair" (I i) - the play starts with this parallel - foreshadowing
Self interest [what are some umbrella topics which would encapsulate all three topics]

Fate

-Takes the witches' prophecies too far
"If chance will have me king, why chance will crown me king without my stir" (I iii)
-then Malcolm is crowned Prince of Cumberland - the darkness comes - "stars hide your fires, let not light see my deep and dark desires" (I iv)
-Lady wants the prophecy to come true "Come dark spirits and fill me from crown to toe top full of direst cruelty"
-Banquo also doesn't act against the Thane because of his prophecies
-fate sets up the entire plot
-second meeting between the Thane and the witches sets up the ending
-is fate real? (destiny)
-can we change our fate? (free will)
-[Fleance does not become king - what does this show us about fate?]
-the Thane becomes Thane of Cawdor "without his stir"
-ambition + greed transforms the Thane's initial desire
-he says why he should not kill him (I vii) - he knows what he's doing is wrong - Lady "pricks his ambition"
-[the prophecy doesn't have a time limit - why does the Thane feel compelled to act so quickly?]
-"the instruments of darkness tell us truths" (I iii) - contemplating the witches' first prophecy coming true
-part of the prophecy comes true - so seems real
-"come fate and champion me to the utterance" - challenges fate when planning to kill Banquo - he's trying to change fate - (III i 74-75) - realizes he's killed so that the "seeds of Banquo" will become king
-"The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step I must overcome, or else overleap" (I iv)
[how does fate control or not control us? Do we have any preconceived notions about fate? Do you think there is any kind of employment or university you are destined to have/go to?
time

Moralty

- The principles concerning behaviour between right or wrong - people with morals know the difference
- [at the beginning of the play, the Thane has a set of morals - he betrays them}
-[what are our morals? What would make us betray them? Greed
- The Thane kills and betrays his morals - leads him to not sleep insomnia, insanity, guilt
- The Thane gives into his "deep and dark desires"
- "we'll not fail. Screw your courage to the sticking place" (I vii) - the Lady
- Does the Lady not have morals at the beginning? [she has to call on dark spirits]
- [listening to the witches - like listening to the bad side of our heads - do we have moral compasses? Look at politicians - do they betray any moral code?]
- "I have forgot the taste of fear" (V v) - shows us his degradation
- Killing Banquo - haunted my his ghost (III iv) - shows us the Thane's guilt
- Does the Thane saying "my way of life has fallen into the sear…" (V v) - is this him admitting his guilt and responsibility
- [does the Thane take responsibility from his actions]
- [REMEMBER, THEME AND MORALS ARE DIFFERENT - YOUR JOB ISN'T TO TELL US WHAT THE PLAY TELLS TO DO OR NOT TO DO; IT IS TO SHOW US HOW PEOPLE LIVE (NOT HOW TO LIVE]
- How is this play still relevant?
- Temptation - how often do we give into to it? What are the consequences?
- The Thane loses everything - his life, his status, his friends, his sense of self
- [how soon does the Thane realize it wasn't worth it? "Duncan is in his grave, after life's fitful fever, he sleeps well" (III ii 22-23)
- Pride
- Gets murderers to do his dirty work after killing Duncan - why? What does this tell us about the state of his soul?
- What about the witches' morality? - Hecate gets mad at them for "trading traffic with Macbeth" (III v)

Eng. 11 - June 4

As time is winding down, please make every effort to attend the in-class essay and test. 0 is an option for consistent non-attenders.

Lit 12 - June 1 - Rough plans

For Monday 4: ROMANTIC ESSAY DUE, "Ulysses"/ "Dover Beach"/ Last chance to hand in Romantic HW or light blue vocab
Tues. 5 - Victorian Notes, "Sonnet 43"
Wed. 6 - "Song"
Thurs. 7 - "Darkling Thrush"/ "My Last Duchess"
Fri. 8 - Figure out Fishbowl topics/ "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"

Mon. 11 - "Pretty"
Tues. 12 - "Disembarking at Quebec"
Wed. 13 - Review of January poems (Because, Second Coming, Dulce, Hollow Men)
Thurs.14 - Fishbowl
Fri.15 - Relays and Games (Amazing Review - don't miss!)

Mon. 18 - Good-bye
Tues. 19 - FINAL EXAM at 9:35


*student choice awards
*go over Romantic Essays