Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Gothic Literature
Gothic Literature- Gothic literature is intimately associated with the Gothic Revival architecture of the same era. In a way similar to the gothic revivalists' rejection of the clarity and rationalism of the neoclassical style of the Enlightened Establishment, the literary Gothic embodies an appreciation of the joys of extreme emotion, the thrills of fearfulness and awe inherent in the sublime, and a quest for atmosphere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_fiction
Romanticism-Romanticism has very little to do with things popularly thought of as "romantic," although love may occasionally be the subject of Romantic art. Rather, it is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world.
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/rom.html
Transcendentalism-Transcendentalism is an American literary, political, and philosophical movement of the early nineteenth century, centered around Ralph Waldo Emerson. Other important transcendentalists were Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Amos Bronson Alcott, Frederic Henry Hedge, and Theodore Parker. Stimulated by English and German Romanticism, the Biblical criticism of Herder and Schleiermacher, and the skepticism of Hume, the transcendentalists operated with the sense that a new era was at hand.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/transcendentalism/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_fiction
Romanticism-Romanticism has very little to do with things popularly thought of as "romantic," although love may occasionally be the subject of Romantic art. Rather, it is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world.
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/rom.html
Transcendentalism-Transcendentalism is an American literary, political, and philosophical movement of the early nineteenth century, centered around Ralph Waldo Emerson. Other important transcendentalists were Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Amos Bronson Alcott, Frederic Henry Hedge, and Theodore Parker. Stimulated by English and German Romanticism, the Biblical criticism of Herder and Schleiermacher, and the skepticism of Hume, the transcendentalists operated with the sense that a new era was at hand.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/transcendentalism/
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Acts 1,2,3, and 4.
The 5 elements of plot in drama--Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resoulution.
A foil is a minor character whose traits contgrast sharply wiht those of the main character.
Monologue- a long speech spoken by a single character to himself or herself or to the audience.
Silioquy- a monolague in which a character speaks his or her private thoughts a loud and appears to be unaware of the Audience.
aside- a short speech or comment that is delivered by a character to the audiance but that is beyond the hearing of other charcter who are presant.
Spectral Evidance- the testimony of a churches member who claimed to have seen a persons spirit performing witchcraft.
Act 1-- The play is in Salem, Massactuchess 1962. Act one starts off with Parris running threw the woods and he discoveres that their is girl dances in the woods. He sees Abigal and all of her friends dancing and realized that they are doing witchcraft. The reason the girls are dancing is because Mrs. Putnam has 8 kids and 7 of them have died. She thinks that they are dying because of witchcraft.He goes back into the town and tells all the people what he saw and then Betty cannot wake. So he thinks that she is witched. Since they think she is a victim of witchcraft they have reverand Hale come to salem because he is a Witchcraft Expert. Mr parris niece abigal willaims denied all of this witchcraft talk. She was a maid at the John and Elizabeth Procters house but Elizbeth fired her. After that she didn't go to church much. Then at the end of the chapter all of the girls started shouting out names of people they were accusing for withcraft.
Act 2-- At the beginning of Chapter 2 thier were 14 people jailed and if they don't confess they will be hung. Elizebeth Proctor was accused by Abigal willaims because she loves and wants to be married to John. The thing is that Elizabeth does not lie. She loses all faith in her husband after he tells her that he was in a room with Abigal by themselves. In the court Mary Warren sewed together a doll and gave it to Elizebeth as a gift. Their was a pin in the adomen and Abigal ended up having a pin in her adedomen. Reverend relized this doll and was amazed. Then reverend hale relizes that the proctors don't go to church that often and when he asked John to recite the ten commandents he forgot the one prohibiting Adultry. This really makes Elizebeth uneasy. At the end of the act Elizebeth was taken away and John lost his temper and ripped the warrent of the people that came into his house and took his wife.
3. In act 3 Mary and John entered the room and Proctor told mary to tell the court what she thought. She told the court that all of the girls were faking the witchcraft. While the court was in session the girls thought that mary put a cold wind on them and that she was using Witchcraft. Proctor realized that she just wanted Elizbeth to hang and die so that she could take her place in the Proctor house. That is why Abigal accused Elizbeth in the first place.
Act 4-- Now all of the people in witchcraft were confessing of witchcraft when they didn't do anything to do with withcraft they just wanted to save each others lives. John Proctor was standing up for what he believed in though because he doesn't think that all these people are living for the wrong reasons and he will not do that. He died by getting hung but the best people are the ones that got hung becaue they are not confessing to what they did and they are going down for what the believe in and not for what other people think they are.
A foil is a minor character whose traits contgrast sharply wiht those of the main character.
Monologue- a long speech spoken by a single character to himself or herself or to the audience.
Silioquy- a monolague in which a character speaks his or her private thoughts a loud and appears to be unaware of the Audience.
aside- a short speech or comment that is delivered by a character to the audiance but that is beyond the hearing of other charcter who are presant.
Spectral Evidance- the testimony of a churches member who claimed to have seen a persons spirit performing witchcraft.
Act 1-- The play is in Salem, Massactuchess 1962. Act one starts off with Parris running threw the woods and he discoveres that their is girl dances in the woods. He sees Abigal and all of her friends dancing and realized that they are doing witchcraft. The reason the girls are dancing is because Mrs. Putnam has 8 kids and 7 of them have died. She thinks that they are dying because of witchcraft.He goes back into the town and tells all the people what he saw and then Betty cannot wake. So he thinks that she is witched. Since they think she is a victim of witchcraft they have reverand Hale come to salem because he is a Witchcraft Expert. Mr parris niece abigal willaims denied all of this witchcraft talk. She was a maid at the John and Elizabeth Procters house but Elizbeth fired her. After that she didn't go to church much. Then at the end of the chapter all of the girls started shouting out names of people they were accusing for withcraft.
Act 2-- At the beginning of Chapter 2 thier were 14 people jailed and if they don't confess they will be hung. Elizebeth Proctor was accused by Abigal willaims because she loves and wants to be married to John. The thing is that Elizabeth does not lie. She loses all faith in her husband after he tells her that he was in a room with Abigal by themselves. In the court Mary Warren sewed together a doll and gave it to Elizebeth as a gift. Their was a pin in the adomen and Abigal ended up having a pin in her adedomen. Reverend relized this doll and was amazed. Then reverend hale relizes that the proctors don't go to church that often and when he asked John to recite the ten commandents he forgot the one prohibiting Adultry. This really makes Elizebeth uneasy. At the end of the act Elizebeth was taken away and John lost his temper and ripped the warrent of the people that came into his house and took his wife.
3. In act 3 Mary and John entered the room and Proctor told mary to tell the court what she thought. She told the court that all of the girls were faking the witchcraft. While the court was in session the girls thought that mary put a cold wind on them and that she was using Witchcraft. Proctor realized that she just wanted Elizbeth to hang and die so that she could take her place in the Proctor house. That is why Abigal accused Elizbeth in the first place.
Act 4-- Now all of the people in witchcraft were confessing of witchcraft when they didn't do anything to do with withcraft they just wanted to save each others lives. John Proctor was standing up for what he believed in though because he doesn't think that all these people are living for the wrong reasons and he will not do that. He died by getting hung but the best people are the ones that got hung becaue they are not confessing to what they did and they are going down for what the believe in and not for what other people think they are.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Early Puritans
Puritans are people that left their own city of England and came to America to have their own religion and their own freedom. They were part of the prodestant chruch.
Salem witch trials
The salem witch trails were 19 men and women all being accused of doing witchcraft. They were all shipped to Gallows Hills to go get hung. Then another guy refused to go on trial and he got stoned to death. It happened in 1962.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
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