Eng 325 Week 10 Unit Acocteau Discussion Board 200 Words
Eng 325 Week 10 Unit Acocteau1discussion Board 200 Wordsreading 2
Eng 325 Week 10 Unit Acocteau1discussion Board 200 Wordsreading 2
ENG 325 Week 10 Unit A: Cocteau 1. Discussion board (200 words) Reading: 20th Century Fairy Tale Movie Review By Roger Ebert: Discussion question: Roger Ebert says that fairy tales deal "with what we truly dread and desire." 1) What themes does this story (this film) introduce that are dreadful? Desirous? 2) How does Cocteau convey this theme visually throughout the film? 2.
Write responses for other three student’s work. (50-75 words Each) First student: From the ferry, to the limo, to the flat, to the resturant, and everywhere in between I never felt like the girl wasn't in control of the relationship with the older gentleman. The girl was just diving into this relationship, wide-eyed, as an explorer. Exploring this relationship, her freedom, her lack of reliance on her mother. This man was enthralled with the girl. Completely submissive to her every whim.
Though toward the end of The Lover, we start to see a shift in the feelings of the girl. Those feelings become further developed and don't still have the reckless abandon that she started out with. Towards the end we start to see this kind of balance of power between the two. I did notice some fluxuations of power when the girl's family was present. More specifically her eldest brother.
She's just reduced to something much lesser in that presence. That also goes for that of the Chinese man as well. In the presence of the socially elite white family, he loses that magnitude. Though affluent, the family would never directly address him. All refering to the racial constructs of the enviornment.
Second student: It is difficult to tell who has more power, because both parties exercise their powers very intelligently. Moments of power exchanges can be seen between the 15-year old European girl versus the Chinese man. The girl has power because she is European, thus considered of higher status during French-Indochina period and taboo to intermarry with people of low status, Chinese. In addition, she is young, almost half the age of her lover (15 years) and she knows that Chinese man loves her, thus capable of using that as a source of power to manipulate the young man. In contrast, the Chinese is a business magnate, as he is bound to inherit a fortune and is wealth.
This is his greatest source of power, as he can manipulate the girl, who comes from a poor family and is living with her manic depressive and bankrupt mother. This gives him so much power because he can treat the girl, as he likes, as a prostitute. Nonetheless, because the girl knows that he loves her, she seems to have more power because she controls the relationship, dictating the terms, including when or how the relationship ends. Exchange of powers can also be seen between the narrator and her mother. Her mother, responsible for parenting her bows her parental rights to allow the narrator continue the relationship with the Chinese man so that she can get money.
The narrator on the other hand can silence her mother to avoid sabotaging her relationship, because she can get money to help the family sail through poverty. In this case, parental power is exchanged for money derived from the Chinese man. Nonetheless, I would say that the Chinese man’s power status changes, when his father threatens cutting him off from inheritance unless he ends the relationship. This is to imply that his power/money, which is critical for controlling the girl is at risk. This is to say that the father is the power powerful, when it comes to power exchanges.
He can control the young man to end the relationship to turn the events around; bring to a stop the relationship. Third student: The title of the navel written by Duras is the Lover , but readers can find out that the relationships are based on power exchanging. I think the main exchange of power is the girl’s freedom and the wealth from the Chinese guy. In the novel, we know that racial discrimination is full of the world in that era. So, the girl’s family is quiet opposed to the relationship between them.
However, the girl’s family is hard to live, that is why, her family acquiesce their love eventually by the money offensive from the Chinese guy. Also, her mother even helps her to persuade her school to let her off. So, we see the Chinese guy has more power, which help their relationship transcend races, cultures, and regions. If the girl’s family is comfortably off and not so hard to stay, the power will not be so obvious. However, their love makes her marginalized in the school.
Also, the Chinese guy’s family is very centralized by his father. He does not have enough freedom to resolve his life, which make them do not have future. Because his father support his payment, and Chinese culture gives his father more authority to control him. So, he marry a woman that he does not recognize, and his love with a white girl has to break up in the end. 1499.JPG 1469.JPG 1470.JPG 1471.JPG 1472.JPG 1473.JPG 1474.JPG 1475.JPG 1476.JPG 1477.JPG 1478.JPG 1479.JPG 1480.JPG 1481.JPG 1482.JPG 1483.JPG 1484.JPG 1485.JPG 1486.JPG 1487.JPG 1488.JPG 1489.JPG 1490.JPG 1491.JPG 1492.JPG 1493.JPG 1494.JPG 1495.JPG 1496.JPG 1497.JPG 1498.JPG
ENG 205 week 10 Unit A: Emily Dickinson 1.
Discussion board: (200 words) READ: Intro: Poems: Note: your textbook is one of the few general anthologies that gives Dickinson her due: there are close to 30 pages of her poetry included. (She wrote over 1,770 poems total, so it's still a tiny slice of her work.) The poems are quite short & you might find that reading them in little sips is the best way to get to know Dickinson's unique voice and her interpretation of the world around her. Discussion question Simple enough: choose one (1) of Dickinson's poems and do a close reading / explication. Make sure you type out the poem in your DB post, so your readers can easily refer to it. What is a Poetry Explication? A poetry explication takes readers through the poem, explaining what it is about (narrative/plot), its meaning (or theme) and the ways the poetic structure (form, rhythm, rhyme, figurative language, imagery) informs and shapes its meaning.
It is a "guided tour" through a poem, an argument defending a particular interpretation of the poem. Here is a link, "How to Explicate a Poem" from Sara Lundquist at the University of Toledo, which provides vocabulary and 2 examples you might find useful. Write responses for other three student’s work. (50-75 words each) First Student: In "The Fall of the House of Usher," we are introduced to an interesting character, Lady Madeline. In the short story, she can really only be described as a spirit or a ghost of the House of Usher. We are asked to identify if Lady Madeline was a real human-being or just a figment of the Usher's and the narrator's imagination.
Based off the context of the story, I would say that Lady Madeline was not real. She did not speak and the Usher Roderick seemed to describe her life to the narrator at all times. When the narrator came into contact with Lady Madeline for the first time, he described her appearance as, "Her figure, her air, her features -- all, in the very minutest development were those --were identically were identically those of the Roderick Usher who sat beside me" (pg. 1177). I believe that the reason that the narrator described Lady Madeline to be the "twin" of Roderick Usher was because the Usher created a psychological form of himself to express the pain and sorrow that he is currently feeling within himself.
I think that the narrator understood this and treated the situation as if it was realistic. When the narrator discovered that Lady Madeline had passed away, he did not seem to react as a normal person would to such devastating news. However, he carried on by being there for the Usher at all times and not speaking of the mystical being. Second student: I believe that Lady Madelein is not real, and she is just a figment of the narrator. This is because the relationship that Roderick has with Madeline goes against the typical perception of reality, and also the narrators reactions, which suggest that the narrator may have distorted perceptions of reality.
Ideally, the narrator claims to have growth together with Usher becoming best friends. The expectation is that then, he should be aware of Madeline as Usher’s twin sister. Nonetheless, it is clear that he had never seen Madeline before; he notes a striking similitude when he first sees them upon Madeline death when placing her on the tomb and is shocked, claiming that they could have been twins, as if he was not aware. This shows narrator’s deviation from reality considering that as Usher’s best childhood friend, he could have known that Usher had a twin. My assumption is that Madaline is a psychological twin/split personality to Usher and the narrator is aware of this.
Third student: "The Fall of the House of Usher" is a weird novel for me after all, so I prefer to believe that Lady Madeleine is a figment of the narrator's or Usher's imagination since no figure in this novel is mentally health, including the narrator. From this perspective, Lady Madeleine could be a psychological twin to Usher, or in other words, she is the inner and true self of Usher and/or narrator. Lady Madeleine is inactive and hopeless on anything, and she could not find any meaning in the lives and hope to end it. Therefore, Usher felt that Lady Madeleine is sick and there is no treatment to cure because of the inner vacancy, and he deceived himself that she was dead and must be buried under the ground. Actually, this is how he feels about himself and how he want to deal with the dislike of himself. However, finally, he could not stand the deceive on his own, and found out Lady Madeleine or the real self of him came back and was covered with wounds, and had to face it explicitly. When the narrator first saw Lady Madeleine in the house, there was something weird and scary appeared in his heart, and he had no clue to understand the reason. When he was following her walks with sights, he felt strange and stumble in his heart. Still, he did not know why the feeling. When the narrator heard of the news that Lady Medeleine had passed away, he recalled her sorrow sights and inactive walking figure and felt sorry for her. The narrator's reaction is a puzzle as well. Meanwhile, the narrator's feeling toward the house is unknown to us. In my opinion, both Lady Madeleine and Usher are referring to the narrator himself. This visit seems to a dream for him, and he observed how his id and supergo are fighting. Finally, he decided to escape and go back to the society without taking any of them.