"The Fall of The House of Usher"
When the narrator went into The House of Usher, it found Rodrick Usher, Madeline's brother. It says in the story, "He admitted, however, although with hesitation, that much of the peculiar gloom which thus afflicted him could be traced to a more natural and far more palpable origin -- to the severe and long-continued illness -- indeed to the evidently approaching dissolution -- of a tenderly beloved sister -- his sole companion for long years -- his last and only relative on earth." It also says in the story that everyone is very nervous around Madeline. It says this because this is their weakness and nervousness, her being a vampire. In the story, after Madeline has died, it tells how she can be heard moving around in her coffin. It the story it is shrieked, "Madman! I tell you that she now stands without the door!" The Usher family fell apart, because of Madeline being a vampire and their weaknesses and nervousness overcame them.
Gothic Fiction Writers
Gothic Fiction writers always used human nature as the cause of someone's fatality. In "The Raven", the death is caused by human nature overcoming the man, and him letting the raven inside. Whether the writer sends it to you straight forward, or send it to you through the small details, the problem always ends up being human nature. Human nature is the weakness to everyone, according to the writers. The deaths caused by human nature scare the reader, and shocks them. Gothic Fiction deals a lot with horrific events that happen, just as in The Fall of The House of Usher", Madeline is a vampire, and this causes her family to fall apart. No matter what story it is, as long as it is Gothic Fiction, the writer will always use human nature as the problem.
Monday, December 1, 2014
Essential Questions
Essential Questions for This Unit
1. The Romantics' beliefs of optimism and individualism are reflected by using emotions and also by using physical abilities. In the song, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot", it is using emotion to show the slaves feelings and their hopefulness and faith about wanting to go home. The slaves were hopeful and faithful, because they knew that God would take care of them, in either situation they are in, whether it be their time to die, or it's time for them to no longer be a slave anymore, and they be set free.
2. Romanticism is a style of writing that uses emotion, imagery, and physical abilities to bring the reader into the story. In "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", it uses imagery to explain to us exactly what he's saying. Irving says in the story "regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farmyard." Gothic Romanticism deals more with horrid happenings, that still deals with emotion. Gothic Romanticism is based off of Romanticism, just more in depth. An example of Gothic Romanticism is "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allen Poe. Poe uses emotion to catch the reader's attention, but suddenly, something horrifying happens. Poe comes home drunk one night and removes the cat's eye from the eye socket. When Poe starts feeling bad about what he has done, he hangs the cat. When he finds a new cat and gets fed up with him, he goes to kill the cat, but kills his wife instead. When this happens, he shows that he has no remorse or sympathy towards what he has done. Southern Gothic Romanticism is a type of Gothic Romanticism that is usually based in Southern America. Southern Gothic Romanticism is more commonly known as the ironic and supernatural events that occur in the story. For example in "The Life You Save May be Your Own", it's ironic that he leaves his mother and regrets it, but ends up looking for a wife, and when he finds one, he doesn't want her to leave, because of what he had done to is mother.
All of these types of writings are all the same, but have different plots and events that happen in them. These three types of writings have one goal that is set and that is to become individual. These writers are all going against what should be written about. Each type of writing uses the same idea, it just gets more in depth.
3. Southern Gothic Romanticism is just a more in depth type of writing that preceded it. In order to become the Southern Gothic style, it must first become Romanticism that uses the reader's emotion to bring them in. It also uses the reader's emotion to discover a mood and tone for the story, it has to be individual since it's Romanticism, but it also has one of a kind. In most Southern Gothic Romanticism writings, it uses mood, love, truth, and the glory in things to get the feeling that the reader needs.
4. The American culture prompted the dark side of Romanticism by throwing in such things as slavery and the wars that were beginning to happen. The writer started using their emotions to see what was happening, and using them to write in this style.
5. The Romantic writings has made today's writings a way of having all different types of genres to choose from.Whether a person enjoys reading a Romance novel or reading a mysterious novel, it's al led back to a type of Romanticism. The mysterious novel would either fall under the category of Gothic Romanticism or Southern Gothic Romanticism, depending on where it takes place.
1. The Romantics' beliefs of optimism and individualism are reflected by using emotions and also by using physical abilities. In the song, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot", it is using emotion to show the slaves feelings and their hopefulness and faith about wanting to go home. The slaves were hopeful and faithful, because they knew that God would take care of them, in either situation they are in, whether it be their time to die, or it's time for them to no longer be a slave anymore, and they be set free.
2. Romanticism is a style of writing that uses emotion, imagery, and physical abilities to bring the reader into the story. In "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", it uses imagery to explain to us exactly what he's saying. Irving says in the story "regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farmyard." Gothic Romanticism deals more with horrid happenings, that still deals with emotion. Gothic Romanticism is based off of Romanticism, just more in depth. An example of Gothic Romanticism is "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allen Poe. Poe uses emotion to catch the reader's attention, but suddenly, something horrifying happens. Poe comes home drunk one night and removes the cat's eye from the eye socket. When Poe starts feeling bad about what he has done, he hangs the cat. When he finds a new cat and gets fed up with him, he goes to kill the cat, but kills his wife instead. When this happens, he shows that he has no remorse or sympathy towards what he has done. Southern Gothic Romanticism is a type of Gothic Romanticism that is usually based in Southern America. Southern Gothic Romanticism is more commonly known as the ironic and supernatural events that occur in the story. For example in "The Life You Save May be Your Own", it's ironic that he leaves his mother and regrets it, but ends up looking for a wife, and when he finds one, he doesn't want her to leave, because of what he had done to is mother.
All of these types of writings are all the same, but have different plots and events that happen in them. These three types of writings have one goal that is set and that is to become individual. These writers are all going against what should be written about. Each type of writing uses the same idea, it just gets more in depth.
3. Southern Gothic Romanticism is just a more in depth type of writing that preceded it. In order to become the Southern Gothic style, it must first become Romanticism that uses the reader's emotion to bring them in. It also uses the reader's emotion to discover a mood and tone for the story, it has to be individual since it's Romanticism, but it also has one of a kind. In most Southern Gothic Romanticism writings, it uses mood, love, truth, and the glory in things to get the feeling that the reader needs.
4. The American culture prompted the dark side of Romanticism by throwing in such things as slavery and the wars that were beginning to happen. The writer started using their emotions to see what was happening, and using them to write in this style.
5. The Romantic writings has made today's writings a way of having all different types of genres to choose from.Whether a person enjoys reading a Romance novel or reading a mysterious novel, it's al led back to a type of Romanticism. The mysterious novel would either fall under the category of Gothic Romanticism or Southern Gothic Romanticism, depending on where it takes place.
Southern Gothic Romanticism
Southern Gothic Romanticism
Southern Gothic Romanticism is a type of Gothic Romanticism that usually occurs in Southern America. This type of Romanticism has horror in it, and at the end of each story usually leaves the reader hanging onto the story, because it never fully ends. In Southern Gothic Romanticism, it sometimes occurs in an old farmhouse, or something bizarre at the farm, just like "The Life You Save May be Your Own." For example in, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own", Mr. Shiflet states, "My mother was an angel of Gawd" and "He took her from Heaven and giver to me and I left her." (O'Connor) Mr. Shiflet stating this in the story leaves the reader hanging by not telling why he left his mother, but it also led the reader to know why he wanted to treat his new wife so well. This is all caused by when he accidentally picked up a hitchhiker and Mr. Shiflet was persuading the hitchhiker not to eave, because he once did and it was a very bad decision on his part. This leads to why Mr. Shiflet does not want Lucynell to leave her mother, because she is very well protected and taken care of. In "A Rose for Emily", it says, "Then we noticed in the second pillow was an indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair." (Faulkner) This left the reader wondering if Emily's spirit was really still alive or if it was dead. Both of these stories have an elderly woman as the main characters and each one has to go through a rough time, before coming out better.
In "A Rose for Emily", she is always teaching people how to paint the china, and people wanted to continue to learn, so they didn't say anything about her crime until after her death. In the story, everyone was always feeling sorry for Miss Emily, it states "That was two years after her father's death and a short time after her sweetheart--the one we believed would marry her --had deserted her. After her father's death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all." Miss Emily had no one in her life according to that statement. It also says in the beginning of the story, "Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor--he who fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets without an apron-remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity. Not that Miss Emily would have accepted charity." So, even though people felt sorry for her, she did not want and charity, but yet, she was very important to the town.
In "The Life You Save May be Your Own", when Mr. Shiflet picks up the hitchhiker it makes the story work because it tells why he left his mother and began looking for a new wife. It also makes it work by hinting why he doesn't want Lucynell to leave, because he didn't want to take her away from her mother, because his regret of leaving his mother was terrible. Mr. Shiflet says in the story, "I never rued a day in my life like the day I rued when I left that old mother of mine."
Southern Gothic Romanticism is a type of Gothic Romanticism that usually occurs in Southern America. This type of Romanticism has horror in it, and at the end of each story usually leaves the reader hanging onto the story, because it never fully ends. In Southern Gothic Romanticism, it sometimes occurs in an old farmhouse, or something bizarre at the farm, just like "The Life You Save May be Your Own." For example in, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own", Mr. Shiflet states, "My mother was an angel of Gawd" and "He took her from Heaven and giver to me and I left her." (O'Connor) Mr. Shiflet stating this in the story leaves the reader hanging by not telling why he left his mother, but it also led the reader to know why he wanted to treat his new wife so well. This is all caused by when he accidentally picked up a hitchhiker and Mr. Shiflet was persuading the hitchhiker not to eave, because he once did and it was a very bad decision on his part. This leads to why Mr. Shiflet does not want Lucynell to leave her mother, because she is very well protected and taken care of. In "A Rose for Emily", it says, "Then we noticed in the second pillow was an indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair." (Faulkner) This left the reader wondering if Emily's spirit was really still alive or if it was dead. Both of these stories have an elderly woman as the main characters and each one has to go through a rough time, before coming out better.
In "A Rose for Emily", she is always teaching people how to paint the china, and people wanted to continue to learn, so they didn't say anything about her crime until after her death. In the story, everyone was always feeling sorry for Miss Emily, it states "That was two years after her father's death and a short time after her sweetheart--the one we believed would marry her --had deserted her. After her father's death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all." Miss Emily had no one in her life according to that statement. It also says in the beginning of the story, "Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor--he who fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets without an apron-remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity. Not that Miss Emily would have accepted charity." So, even though people felt sorry for her, she did not want and charity, but yet, she was very important to the town.
In "The Life You Save May be Your Own", when Mr. Shiflet picks up the hitchhiker it makes the story work because it tells why he left his mother and began looking for a new wife. It also makes it work by hinting why he doesn't want Lucynell to leave, because he didn't want to take her away from her mother, because his regret of leaving his mother was terrible. Mr. Shiflet says in the story, "I never rued a day in my life like the day I rued when I left that old mother of mine."
Sunday, November 30, 2014
The Black Cat Socratic Questions
"The Black Cat"
Q: What caused Poe to have a problem with Pluto?
A: Poe never had a problem until his old age started catching up to him, and started drinking alcohol. He then stated "... even Pluto began to experience the effects of my ill temper."
Q: Why does Poe end up killing his innocent wife?
A: After Pluto is killed by Poe, he finds another cat that is similar in color and shape to Pluto. He is missing one of his eyes, just like Pluto was right before Poe killed him. This reminded Poe of Pluto, so he decided to kill the cat with an axe. When his wife stepped in and tried to stop him from killing the cat, Poe slices her head with the axe, and he says, "She fell dead upon the spot, without a groan."
Q: Would something like this happen in the world today?
A: Yes, alcohol has overcame the world. He even admits in the story, "The disease grew upon me -- for what disease is like Alcohol!" For not all people will it effect them this way, but some it will. Alcohol is what caused all of the tragedy in "The Black Cat", and in the world today, drugs and alcohol can do the same things and cause people to kill their animals, but it will be more common for them to kill someone that has caused them hatred or someone that they are in a disagreement with.
Q: How did tragedy effect innocent people & how will it continue to do so?
A: This tragedy effected Poe's wife. Poe says in the story, "The moodiness of my usual temper increased to hatred of all things and of all mankind; while, from the sudden, frequent, and ungovernable outbursts of a fury to which I now blindly abandoned myself, my uncomplaining wife, alas!", even if it was an accident, he did state that she was uncomplaining, which tells the readers that she was innocent. Continuing on in the world, it's going to be the same, if not get worse. It will effect innocent people more and more because there are so many people that have gone crazy, or are using alcohol to make them "feel better", but in reality, it's making them go crazy, and cause harm to innocent people.
Q: Did Poe feel any sympathy towards his wife or feel bad about what he had done?
A: He had little to none according to the statement in the story, "I soundly and tranquilly slept; aye, slept even with the burden of murder upon my soul!"
Q: What caused Poe to have a problem with Pluto?
A: Poe never had a problem until his old age started catching up to him, and started drinking alcohol. He then stated "... even Pluto began to experience the effects of my ill temper."
Q: Why does Poe end up killing his innocent wife?
A: After Pluto is killed by Poe, he finds another cat that is similar in color and shape to Pluto. He is missing one of his eyes, just like Pluto was right before Poe killed him. This reminded Poe of Pluto, so he decided to kill the cat with an axe. When his wife stepped in and tried to stop him from killing the cat, Poe slices her head with the axe, and he says, "She fell dead upon the spot, without a groan."
Q: Would something like this happen in the world today?
A: Yes, alcohol has overcame the world. He even admits in the story, "The disease grew upon me -- for what disease is like Alcohol!" For not all people will it effect them this way, but some it will. Alcohol is what caused all of the tragedy in "The Black Cat", and in the world today, drugs and alcohol can do the same things and cause people to kill their animals, but it will be more common for them to kill someone that has caused them hatred or someone that they are in a disagreement with.
Q: How did tragedy effect innocent people & how will it continue to do so?
A: This tragedy effected Poe's wife. Poe says in the story, "The moodiness of my usual temper increased to hatred of all things and of all mankind; while, from the sudden, frequent, and ungovernable outbursts of a fury to which I now blindly abandoned myself, my uncomplaining wife, alas!", even if it was an accident, he did state that she was uncomplaining, which tells the readers that she was innocent. Continuing on in the world, it's going to be the same, if not get worse. It will effect innocent people more and more because there are so many people that have gone crazy, or are using alcohol to make them "feel better", but in reality, it's making them go crazy, and cause harm to innocent people.
Q: Did Poe feel any sympathy towards his wife or feel bad about what he had done?
A: He had little to none according to the statement in the story, "I soundly and tranquilly slept; aye, slept even with the burden of murder upon my soul!"
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Romanticism
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
The story, "The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow" captures the reader's attention by using image to describe to us, what he's saying. For example "regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farmyard." This is an example of image because we can relate to it, and also we can picture it in our minds and imagine the turkeys actually gobbling. Washington Irving is also very descriptive about everything in this story. For instance, it states, "It was one of those spacious farmhouses, with high-ridged but low-sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the first Dutch settlers, the projecting eaves forming a piazza along the front."
It's very descriptive in the way that he describes the farmhouse. In Irving's short story, he also captures the reader's attention by not making the story sound dull all the way through, it has some action throughout. In the story it says, "All the stories of ghosts and goblins that he had heard earlier now came crowding upon his recollection." By this, he is making the reader feel tense, and keeping them wondering, which is good in any story, so it is not boring half way through.
The mysteries of the story make the reader want to keep reading. For example, when someone is reading this story, they are not going to want to stop in the middle where he goes missing.
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
This song in mainly about enslaved men and women who have hope about getting set free. In the olden days, mostly everyone was about God. In this song it can either be about getting set free or going onto Heaven, "coming to carry me home" stated in the song, refers back to this, and wheher they want to go to Heaven or they want to go be with their family, they're going to end up going "home". The enslaved people had hope and faith because they knew that eventually they would either be set free or sent to Heaven. This song is reflective of it's time period, because most enslaved people were only with part of their family or no family at all. They wanted to be with their family, so they had hope about being set free and going on home to see their families. In this time period, all they had was hope and faith, and that was all that they needed. They had hope that they would find their families again, and could be with them. All that they were really looking for was their "Safe Haven". This song relates today to many people. For example, abused, hurt, obese, and some children. Today's world is much better than back then, because all of those slaves don't have to worry about never seeing their family again, but today's world can be just as bad if not much worse. There are so many people that have been abandoned and hurt by other people, and the people that are abandoning and hurting are taking their lives for granted, because it could easily go back to like it was with the enslaved me and women. Children are abused today, and no one really thinks anything of it, before it actually gets bad. The abused, and hurt, and some of those children, are looking for the same thing as the enslaved men and women were, a "Safe Haven".
The story, "The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow" captures the reader's attention by using image to describe to us, what he's saying. For example "regiments of turkeys were gobbling through the farmyard." This is an example of image because we can relate to it, and also we can picture it in our minds and imagine the turkeys actually gobbling. Washington Irving is also very descriptive about everything in this story. For instance, it states, "It was one of those spacious farmhouses, with high-ridged but low-sloping roofs, built in the style handed down from the first Dutch settlers, the projecting eaves forming a piazza along the front."
It's very descriptive in the way that he describes the farmhouse. In Irving's short story, he also captures the reader's attention by not making the story sound dull all the way through, it has some action throughout. In the story it says, "All the stories of ghosts and goblins that he had heard earlier now came crowding upon his recollection." By this, he is making the reader feel tense, and keeping them wondering, which is good in any story, so it is not boring half way through.
The mysteries of the story make the reader want to keep reading. For example, when someone is reading this story, they are not going to want to stop in the middle where he goes missing.
"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
This song in mainly about enslaved men and women who have hope about getting set free. In the olden days, mostly everyone was about God. In this song it can either be about getting set free or going onto Heaven, "coming to carry me home" stated in the song, refers back to this, and wheher they want to go to Heaven or they want to go be with their family, they're going to end up going "home". The enslaved people had hope and faith because they knew that eventually they would either be set free or sent to Heaven. This song is reflective of it's time period, because most enslaved people were only with part of their family or no family at all. They wanted to be with their family, so they had hope about being set free and going on home to see their families. In this time period, all they had was hope and faith, and that was all that they needed. They had hope that they would find their families again, and could be with them. All that they were really looking for was their "Safe Haven". This song relates today to many people. For example, abused, hurt, obese, and some children. Today's world is much better than back then, because all of those slaves don't have to worry about never seeing their family again, but today's world can be just as bad if not much worse. There are so many people that have been abandoned and hurt by other people, and the people that are abandoning and hurting are taking their lives for granted, because it could easily go back to like it was with the enslaved me and women. Children are abused today, and no one really thinks anything of it, before it actually gets bad. The abused, and hurt, and some of those children, are looking for the same thing as the enslaved men and women were, a "Safe Haven".
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