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Early Modern Period
London Diary
What triggers the English Reformation?
the act of supremacy in1534
- the king wanted to get divorced but the church didn’t let him, so he became the head of the church
Early Modern Period
The Tempest
Explain the Aristotelian unities. Do they apply to the tempest?
- unity of time, place and action
-> they do apply becuase it is all set in one island, one place and there’s only one plot
Early Modern Period
The Tempest
Who are the main characters?
Prospero, Miranda
(Ariel and Caliban)
Early Modern Period
The Tempest
What happens in the end? Who remains on the island and what is a possible reading regarding the historial context?
- the naitive of the island stayed on the island
- at the end everyone learned smth -> character development
- Prospero gives away his magic: he thorws it into the sea
- everyone has a happy ending (ariel is free, prospero gives away his magic, Caliban is wiser, etc.)
Restoration and Early Eighteenth Cenutry
Oroonoko & Robinson Crusoe
What did the bill of rights constitute?
- freedom of speech
- voting rights (every man can vote)
- free press and no censorship (no one controls what willbe published)
Restoration and Early Eighteenth Cenutry
Oroonoko
How does the text describe Oroonoko?
- very handsome and a good looking person for his race
- part of the aristocracy
- well-read man, speaks a lot of languages, gernerally a great character who became a slave by chance, treated differently than other slaves
Restoration and Early Eighteenth Cenutry
Oroonoko
Why does the master change his name?
- name was changed to ceasar
- by changing his name, he takes away his identitiy, power and personality
- to make him more european
Restoration and Early Eighteenth Cenutry
Oroonoko
general plot
- Oroonoko is the last descendant of a royal line
- at 17 he becomes the general (military leader), he fights at war and leads his army to victory
- an english sea captain invites Oroonoko and double crosses him and his attendants and sells them to the slave owner Trefry
- Trefry promises to free him and reunites him (unknowingly) with his love -> she gets pregnant
- Oroonoko (now Caesar) decides too flee (with the other slaves) but they are caught
- …
Restoration and Early Eighteenth Cenutry
Robinson Crusoe
How does the narrative portray/convey authenticity?
- 1st person narrator: Cursoe is the narrator
- the narration very detailed, which makes it very authentic
-> it feels like we are experiencing evrything with him, like he’s writing a journal in that exact moment
Restoration and Early Eighteenth Cenutry
Robinson Crusoe
How did Crusoe take part in the Triangular Trade?
- he becomes part of the slave trade (with Xury)
- he later is the owner of a plantation, hes part of the slave trade with his plantation
Restoration and Early Eighteenth Cenutry
Robinson Crusoe
Why are the texts considered part of “hypercanonicity”?
- because it is/both texts are still relevant today
- canon: smth that is written down and it’s true (ex: ships in shows)
British Romanticism
Frankenstein
When and why did Shelly write Frankenstein?
- Summer 1816, Lake Geneva
- Vulcano errupted and the sky turned dark
- they competed in telling ghost stories during the summer and it inspired her
British Romanticism
Frankenstein
What is the general plot?
- ??
British Modernism
The Wasteland
What is Eliot’s goal in writing this poem?
- “try to interpret it, you can’t”
- his goal was to confuse ppl
- if you have trouble understanding, that’s exactly what he intended
Postcolonial Period
Background
Explain the difference between imperialism and colonialism
Imperialism: the attitude
Colonialism: putting the ideas into practice
Postcolonial Period
Lawley Road
What happens to the statue in the end?
- Statue of Frederick Lawley - no one knows who he is, they only know that it exists
- turns out its a statue of a freedom fighter
- the narrator (I-narration) puts it in his house and claims that it is his
- he makes the government pay for it, it stays in his house but they make it a park everyone can go to
Postcolonial Period
Girls at War
The two main characters meet several times. What changes between the meetings?
- Time: nothing happens, beginning of the new nation
- Time: check point, his car his searched by the girl, the girl is a soldier
- Time: the girl stopped being the soldier, it gets bad; the guy gives her a lift
Postpostmodernism
Citizen
Rankine’s work is structured around racism. How does it touch upon these topics? How does it relate to “I feel most colored when I am thrown against sharp white bachground?”
- Shows microagressions (everyday)
-> E.g. you smell like a white person, implies that black people smell bad
-> she also shows it in school, Tv, University, etc. - but also deadly aggression, death of people just because they are black
- her own experience, but also experiences of friends and which she
- you feel more different (black), when you are compared to white (normal) people;
it shows how common it can be in everyday life when she is around white people,
e.g. at work when people only see her as black and not a person - she is living in a mainly white culture, the culture is westernized; when she is compared to white people, she feels most colored because she is looked at with a wester/white lense (being the odd one out)
Postpostmodernism
Citizen
Which different styles and genres can be found in the poems?
- Pictures, prose, poems, essays
- Contemporary life writing
- a lot of styles are combined, personal experiences, those of friends and family, as well as those of public figures (athletes, etc.)
Puritansims to American Romanticism
Huswifey
– conceit??
- works with a conceit
- (fanciful poetic image/elaborate or exaggertaed comparison)
The Middle Ages
Beowulf
There’s a king, what does he do, what is his name?
- King Hrothgar of Denmark, he enjoys a proserous and successful reign
- he build the mead hall
Dark Romanticism
The Fall of the House of Usher
What is the poem? What does it mean?
- ??
British Romanticism
Mary, A Fiction
There are two women, how are they different?
- Eliza is the mother, Mary the daughter
- Eliza doesn’t care about Mary and neglects her
- Mary gathers her own wisdom and experiences by going out
-> learns how to be content with her own emotions
-> no traditional upbringing - Eliza was a slave to stereotypes of society, she stopped educating herself after the kids were born
