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Silas Marner

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Symbols in SM
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  1. What are the causes of social isolation?
  2. To what extent are these causes externally imposed? Self-imposed?
  3. What are the individual effects of social isolation? On the group from which the person is isolated?
  4. What are some examples of social isolation operating in our world and society today? Include examples of both group-imposed and self-imposed isolation. What are their intended purposes? What are their actual results?
  5. Generally speaking, people get what they deserve, for better or worse. True or false? Support your stand. To what degree did this rule apply to characters in this novel?
  6. Which characters underwent change? What brought about these changes?
  7. How would Molly's death be regarded today, and how would it be handled?
  8. How would the issues raised in this novel be modified if the setting were changed to the modern world?
  9. What are the respective roles of material wealth, social interaction, and social position in the attainment of happiness?
  10. What are the advantages and disadvantages of practicing deceit and secrecy? What public figures have you known to use such practices? What were the results?
  11. What are the benefits and consequences of accepting and meeting responsibilities? Cite examples of people who have either met or not met their responsibilities.
  12. It has been said that givers are enriched by giving. How did this principle operate in Silas Marner? In what way have you seen it work in your experience?
  13. To what extent are Godfrey's and Dunstan's shortcomings attributable to their home life? To their own irresponsibility? After what point should young people no longer attribute their difficulties to their parents or to society?
  14. On the subject of adoption, whom do you agree with more, Godfrey or Nancy? Why? To what extent do your reasons hold for adoption in general?
  15. It has been said that people need people. It this true? To what extent do people also need time to be alone? Why? What is a proper balance between these two needs?
  16. What role does fate play in our lives? To what extent do people command their own fate?
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The Brownings

Two assignments to be completed:
1.  Read EBB Sonnet 43 and answer the questions.
2. Answer the questions about the Brownings article linked below.
(Anything that is not finished in class, must be finished for homework.)
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A Romantic Notion: The Brownings​
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Realism during the Period

Quick Facts:
  • English Realism 1837-1901 (Victorian Period)
  • began in France in the 1850s
  • reaction flowery Romanticism
  • tried to show "life as it was"
  • stress on reason and positivism
  • faith in the power of the artist to show reality
  • Novels were the most important literary form of the period
  • Rise in Detective Novels and Children's Literature
  • Protagonists from the middle- and lower-classes
  • Characterization and plot are most important

The realistic novel is a narration of plausible events, set in very specific places and times and near to the author. In this kind of novel are treated aspects of contemporary society: as the contradictions of the social order, and the changes of costume and mentality in relation to major political and economic events.
The realistic novel was born in the nineteenth century, and is characterized by the social content: such as the description of the struggle of the bourgeoisie against the aristocratic society, or the description of the world of the poor and unfortunate (Dickens).
The realism is meant to capture the reality as it is and to cancel the individual sensibility. Hence arose important choices formally:
  • a prose flat and linear, to maintain the narration in the context of an absolute objectivity;
  • the presence of a narrator who expresses himself in the third person (external narrator);
  • few spaces for the interventions of the author, for comments and for advances.
The realism spreads rapidly across Europe, and in Victorian England is greeted by the work of Charles Dickens.
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Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth in 1812, had a childhood plagued by poverty, living the exasperation of the squalid suburbs of London and being in contact with the poorest social classes. In his novels he is interested in the social and human problems of the time, and treats them with an ironic tone and spirit of moving participation. Among his most important works: The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Hard Times and Little Dorrit.
London was the setting of most of his novels; he knew and described it in realistic details.
At first, Dickens created middle class characters, though often satirised. He gradually developed a more radical social view, although he was not a revolutionary thinker. He was aware of the spiritual and material corruption under the impact of industrialism and he became increasingly critical of society.
Oliver Twist is the first of the novels in which Dickens reflects on the defects of society and the functioning of public administration. Even in David Copperfield and in Hard Times, he describes a society hard and ruthless, operated by the strict laws of profit. Dickens exposes a philanthropic and paternalistic solution in his novels: appear rich and good gentlemen who take care of the little orphans, assuring a better life. But the excellent skills of this author is to represent situations that do understand the desperate isolation of man.
Written in 1854, Hard Times is one of the most representative novels of the changes in the way of production and work, which go under the name of the industrial revolution. In fact, it has the negative effects of an industrialized society that reduces men to machines, and criticizes the materialistic mentality of the time. Dickens while having a great distrust of the working class, gives importance to the worker as an individual. In fact, he devotes his interest in analyzing the condition of the workers, not only for the inhuman effort and working conditions but also because it affects the private lives of workers.
https://alicegonella.wordpress.com/2015/01/09/charles-dickens-realism/
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Charles Dickens (The Most Famous Victorian Realist)

Hard Times Excerpt Ch. 2

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/Dickens_Hard_Times_extract.pdf

Pink Floyd

The Happiest Days of Our Lives

When we grew up and went to school 
There were certain teachers who would 
Hurt the children any way they could 
By pouring their derision 
Upon anything we did 
And exposing every weakness 
However carefully hidden by the kids 
But in the town it was well known 
When they got home at night, their fat and 
Psychopathic wives would thrash them 
Within inches of their lives

Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 

We don't need no education 
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

"Wrong, Do it again!"
"If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you
have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?"
"You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!"

"Dolor" by Theodore Roethke

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My Last Duchess

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