Mendon collonated town hall
In class: please turn in the 6 questions on the prologue from Ethan Frome
power point review of this week's vocabulary. Quiz tomorrow
all received material is graded and in parent connect for the 4th quarter. Check, if you are missing something. Anything with a zero is now worth 50 points. If I made a mistake, show me the corrected work.
schadenfreude
noun
- pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune.
- Do you think the narrator's landlady Mrs. Hale or the town "oracle" Harmon Gow feel schadenfreude when they remember Ethan Frome's "smash up." What in the prologue would support or refute your response?
Responses to the Background on Naturalism responses
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1. The term Naturalism
describes a type of literature that attempts to apply scientific principles
of objectivity and detachment to its study of human beings.
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What does it mean “to apply
scientific principles of objectivity and detachment to human beings?”
What
it means “to apply scientific principles of objectivity and detachment to
human beings” is not look at their actions in a non-biases, non-judgmental
manner and not apply human morals.
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2. Naturalistic writers, since human beings
are, in Emile Zola's phrase, "human beasts," characters can be
studied through their relationships to their surroundings.
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In what ways could human
beings be described as “beasts?”
Humans
could be described as “beasts” in the manner that their purpose is to survive, and
so will use their instincts as animals do to adapt to their environment.
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3. The Naturalist believed in
studying human beings as though they were "products" that are to be
studied impartially, without moralizing about their natures.
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a. What does it mean to
“moralize” a human being?
To “moralize”
a human being is to apply cultural values that determine how a person should
behave.
b. What advantage might a
writer have in removing the idea of moralizing from a narrative?
If a
writer were to remove the idea of moralizing from a narrative, the characters
would be able to development authentically and not be confined by the writer’s
judgment.
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4. Naturalistic writers
believed that the laws of behind the forces that govern human lives might be
studied and understood through the objective study of human beings.
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If moralizing is removed from
human nature, what might remain?
If moralizing is removed from
human nature, mankind would live and adapt like any other animal using
instinct.
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5. Naturalistic writers used
a version of the scientific method to write their novels; they studied human
beings governed by their instincts and passions as well as the ways in which
the characters' lives were governed by forces of heredity and environment.
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In Romanticism we looked at
how instincts and passions impact a tale. Now heredity and environment are
added into the mix. Which set of
forces do you think will dominate and why?
Between
heredity and the environment, the latter will dominate; however, those with
certain heredities might change their environment, so the outcome is not
always predictable.
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6. Naturalism is considered
as a movement to be beyond Realism. Naturalism is based more on scientific
studies.
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Realism is writing about what
is: warts and all. Social Science connection. What social movement (s) was
taking place in the latter half of the 19th century whose reality
when exposed would lead to social change?
Some
19th century social movements that would lead to social change
include: mass immigration, colonization, industrialization and technological
advances.
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7. Darwin's Theory of
Evolution is a basis for the Naturalist writer. Natural selection and
survival of the fittest help to depict the struggle against nature as a
hopeless fight.
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So who invariably wins this
battle? Why?
Struggling
against nature is ultimately a futile war, if for no other reason that human
life is short; however, humans can work with nature to make life easier.
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Considerations on your responses on living an isolated life.
Grammar: NEVER, NEVER use "gonna"
whether vs weather
there, they're and their
its vs it's (no contractions in formal writing)
Content: Whilst you did not need textual evidence, as with any writing, when you make a statement, you need proof. In this case details.
Many of you talked about going insane. Ok...how exactly? If you are hallucinating, what do you see? And very importantly, why?
Please remember that the phone technology is very new. Human beings have lived in isolated areas through much of the 200,000 years they have been around. Isolated is not the same as alone. There is human contact in terms of family, and boredom does not come into play, as one must work very hard to survive. A poor harvest brings hunger.
Life is short, brutal and nasty.
clean water?
contaminated food?
diseases (smallpox, measles, typhoid, diphtheria, syphilis, tuberculosis and plague?
puerperal fever / childbirth
vitamin deficiencies (scurvy, rickets, pellagra)
Question: is being linked to your cell phone really so innocuous?
Ethan Frome Vocabulary Words First List…quiz on Tuesday, April 4…power point review on Monday, April 3
1. sardonic: adj. Scornfully or cynically mocking; sarcastic.
2. colloquial: adj. 1. Characteristic of or appropriate to the spoken language or to writing that seeks
the effect of speech; informal. 2. Relating to conversation; conversational.
3. innocuous: adj. 1. Having no adverse effect; harmless. 2. Not likely to offend or provoke to strong
emotion; insipid.
4. reticent: adj. 1. Inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself;
Restrained or reserved in style. 3. Reluctant; unwilling.
5. poignant: adj. Keenly distressing to the mind or feelings: poignant anxiety; profoundly moving; touching: a poignant memory.
6. wraith: n. 1. An apparition of a living person that appears as a portent just before that person's
death. 2. The ghost of a dead person. 3. Something shadowy and insubstantial.
7. wistful: adj. 1. Full of wishful yearning. 2. Pensively sad; melancholy.
8. undulation: n. 1. A regular rising and falling or movement to alternating sides; movement in waves.
9. tenuous: adj. 1. Long and thin; slender: tenuous strands. 2. Having a thin consistency; dilute;
having little substance; flimsy: a tenuous argument.
10. throng: n. 1. A large group of people gathered or crowded closely together; a multitude.
throngs v.tr. 1. To crowd into; fill: commuters thronging the subway platform.2. To press in
to gather, press, or move in a throng.
11. vex: (verb) 1. To annoy, as with petty importunities; bother. 2. To cause perplexity in; puzzle.
12. laden: adj. 1. Weighed down with a load; heavy: "the warmish air, laden with the rains of those
thousands of miles of western sea" Hilaire Belloc. 2. Oppressed; burdened: laden with grief.
13. preclude: 1. To make impossible, as by action taken in advance; prevent. 2. To exclude or prevent (someone) from a given condition or activity: Modesty precludes me from accepting the honor.
14. succumb: (verb) 1. To submit to an overpowering force or yield to an overwhelming desire; give up or give in. 2. To die.
15. foist: (verb) 1. To pass off as genuine, valuable, or worthy: "I can usually tell whether a poet . . . is foisting off on us what he'd like to think is pure invention" J.D. Salinger.
2. To impose (something or someone unwanted) upon another by coercion or trickery:They had extra work foisted on them because they couldn't say no to the boss. 3. To insert fraudulently or deceitfully: foisted unfair provisions into the contract.
