LITERATURE
1. Comment on the use of the HEROIC IDEAL in 2 books from
• different English speaking cultures
• British Medieval literature
– Beowulf – use of heroic ideal as depicted in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne & Maxime Hong Kinston (dual heroic concept of the puritans with Hester Prynn & the other one with her representing a new ideal, new values in the society: motherhood, love valued more than the fact that she is an adulteress – A can also mean Angel)
– Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Alice in Wonderland
2. ALLEGORY – 2 or more literary periods (most probably just 1 ESP – English-speaking country)
– Def. : allegory: 1) the representation of abstract idea or principles by characters, figures or events in narrative, dramatic pictoral form 2) a story, picture or plays emplying symbolic representation 3) symbolic representation:
1. snow – innocence (Snow Falling on Cedars)
2. forest, sea – independence, freedom (The Awakening, Scarlet Letter, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)
– symbol – separate pictures, images, characters in the story – at least 2 levels of reading/meaning
1. X
– allegory – the “other/different” meaning of the whole story created by the symbols used in the story
– Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, Alice in Wonderland
3. PAMPHLETS & LEAFLETS in English (UK, USA etc.)
– Mary Wollestonecraft Shelly, Zora Neal Hurston ??
– Piercy Byshe Shelley - http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/pshelley.htm
4. 19th C – 2 GB writers comment on how they deal with COMMUNITY & SOCIETY
• Jane Austen – Pride & Prejudice (Elizabeth Bennet+Darcy; Mr. Bingley+Jane, Wickham, Collins)
- Oscar Wilde – The Importance of Being Earnest (Jack+Gwendolen, Algernon+Cecily, Lady Bracknell)
• Charles Dickens, Henry James, Mary Shelley
5. US TRANSCENDENTALISM – its features. Compare 2 books (1830 – 1945)
• Henry David Thoreau – Walden
• Ralph Waldo Emerson –...