Core Concept Final

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We have discussed the poem, “The Hollow Men” by T. S. Elliot

• Unlike Dante, who escaped from Purgatory, the Hollow Men are stuck in there.
• There are lots of biblical allusion such as “5 o’clock.”, typical time when Jesus wakes up from the dead.
• Three Kingdoms: Three stations (Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradiso) from Dante?
• “The eyes” seem to be the eyes of God, who watch people to judge
• Allusion to “Mistah Kurtz”, from Heart of Darkness. Any significance?
• Another Allusion to a penny for the Old guy. Again, Any significance?

In addition to that, we have discussed the poem, “The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Elliot(1919)

• What is the “overwhelming question” that Prufrock speaks about?
• In the beginning, it speaks about hell, an exempt from Dante. Any significance?
• “Yellow fog” might represent Elliot’s hometown, where it has some factories.
• Sexual (body parts of women such as the “peach”)
• Allusion to Hamlet’s indecision, maybe commenting about narrator’s indecision of this poem.

We have also discussed the different times of literature:

Modernism: Disillusionment following WWI

• New narrative techniques
• “Make it New”-> what young generations in that time thought. To break away from old rules.
• New Form of narrative: (unreliable narrator, multiple narrators, minor character as 1^st person narrators, stream of consciousness)

Connections: “Tell tale heart” by Edgar Allen Poe has an unreliable narrator. Even though it was not written in Modernism period, it still has characteristics of Modernism

• Superimposition: One point of view is layered with another one
• Universal Truth 

Connections: I read the book called The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald in American Literature when I was a junior. This book is an example of Modernism.

Post Modernism: Just after World War one. United States started Post Modernism ahead of  United Kingdom for it had Televisions before United Kingdom did.

·        Post Modernism= Modernism- universal truth= irony

Connections: For those who had Ms.Dockus for American Literature, remember this equation? I wrote down that equation when I was in her class!

·        Blending of high and low cultures

·        Self-reference (No boundaries between mediated worlds. Fictional characters can talk about other fictional characters.

·        The simulacrum (the fake ones are so real to us that they become our realities

We have watched a great movie called Bride and Prejudice, directed by Gurinder Chadha

·        It is based of a novel called “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen.

Like a book ,it is mainly about two characters: Darcy and Elizabeth (in this movie, she is called Lalita Bakshi)

·        It is extremely hilarious

·        The setting is in India

Connections: Like the mom in Bride and Prejudice, my mom always want to display me in front of others. That is the reason why whenever people come to my house as guests, I play either piano or alto saxophone to them. Of course, I desperately try not to embarrass myself in front of others, unlike the “cobra dancer” in the movie.

Homework:

• Core Concepts/Outside Reading Journals Due 3/21/11
• The Stranger annotations due 3/21/11