Homework!
Classes 12CD, 12B, and 11D -- Read to page 84, annotating as you go. Expect a quiz on your reading tonight and be prepared for graded discussion tomorrow.
Class 11A -- Read chapters 5-7 tonight, annotating for: setting, symbolism, and characterization. Have at least three quotations in your notebook that you believe to be especially significant.
Perfume --
Read Chapter Two, tracking STEAL for Grenouille in your notebook
Objective: Scholars participate in basic research before reading a text critically in order to prepare themselves for close reading from page one. Today we will do some background research on Carrie or Perfume and consider how it connects to our understanding of the essential questions of the unit.
First Chapter Carrie
First Chapter Perfume
Following are a few characteristics of gothic and southern gothic literature:
- The gothic novel tries to evoke chilling terror and gloom by exploiting mystery and horror. Gothic is about haunting and possession. We are supposed to feel a chill at some point in the story, and this emotional response is in part the point of the gothic experience. Paradoxically, this fear is a source of pleasure. "Tis so appalling--it exhilarates," Emily Dickinson says in a poem.
- In a Gothic work, there is usually confusion about good and evil. What does ‘good’ actually mean? What about ‘evil’? And how can we tell the difference?
- Gothic reveals a fear of institutions, such as religion, education, or marriage.
- Gothic shows the dark and hidden side of things. It rips open the lies and shows a world of cruelty, lust, perversion, and crime hidden beneath society’s rules and customs.
- Gothic tears through censorship and explodes hypocrisies. It exposes the world as a corrupt, reeking place.
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