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Please ensure that you have completed the attached outline, which outlines your THEME-Y STATEMENT OF DELICIOUSNESS and textual support for SCND, by the TIME YOU WALK IN MY DOOR on FRIDAY, 2/2. This should be simple if you have completed all of the homework with purpose and intent. Happy thinking!
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Please ensure that you have completed this chart in relation to the final two scenes of the play for our discussion tomorrow, TUESDAY, 1/30. Happy thinking!
We will be having our unit 10 vocab quiz on WEDNESDAY, 1/31. It will be formatted as follows:
1-20 Definitions/Synonyms 21-30 Antonyms 31-40 Complete the Sentence Happy vocabing! Using the THEME-Y STATEMENT OF DELICIOUSNESS you generated and are drafting about, deal with the middle of the play. Please be prepared on MONDAY, 1/29, to discuss the events of scenes V-VIII in relation to your theory and theme-y goodness. Here are some ideas that might help frame your thinking.
Blanche's revelation about Allan and her part in his death (Formalist: symbolism of light/Feminist/Psychological: social paradigm of desire) Juxtaposition of Stanley and Stella's relationship to Blanche and Allan's relationship (Formalist: symbolism of light/ Feminist: damaging nature of desire on women/ Psychological: female self definition based on desirability) Stanley’s revelations about “Dame Blanche” (Formalist/Feminist: implications about female manipulation of desire/how is what she did different and/or the same as what Stanley does?) “You’re goddam right I told him! I’d have that on my conscience the rest of my life if I knew all the stuff and let my best friend get caught!” (Psychological/ Feminist: hypocrisy of men’s perceptions of female sexuality/how is this comment the same and/or different from Blanche’s “don’t hang back with the brutes” speech?) “When we first me, me and you, you thoughts I was common. How right you was, baby. I was common as dirt. You showed me that snapshot of the place with the columns. I pulled you down off them columns and how you love it, having them colored lights going! And wasn’t we happy together, wasn’t it all okay till she showed here?” (Marxist: think about the social distinctions/ Feminist/Psychological: contemplate the power of desire) Happy thinking! Here is a fabulous analysis of "The Yellow Wallpaper." Please ensure that you are offering full analysis, context, and complete development of ideas. If you are unsure of what that looks like, here is an example to help. Happy writing!
By the time you arrive at my door on THURSDAY, 1/25, please ensure that you have re-read SCND scenes I-IV. As you do, please generate a THEME-Y STATEMENT OF DELICIOUSNESS that addressed the nature of desire and how desire impacts people. Once you have completed that choose from below and provide context, text, and analysis to prove your THEME-Y goodness.
Marxist: The power struggle between the rich Stella and the poor Stanley manifests itself in their sexual relationship. Prove with analysis and text from TWO different scenes. Feminist/Formalist: Stella embodies the liminal nature of women (lover vs nurturer). Prove with TWO different scenes that depict the struggle between the two forces. Psychological: Blanche asserts that "desire, brutal desire" mars Stella's ability to think rationally and behave appropriately. Prove with analysis and text from TWO different scenes. Freudian: examine the implications of the "meat" scene at the beginning of the play; address the yanic nature of the stairs and their importance to the post poker scene Formalist: use characterization to identify how Blanche and Stanley are, in fact, the same. How does their characterization help depict them as similar? (how is Stanley a MAN and Blanche a WOMAN? How do they both work to get what they want? How are they treated because of that?) Happy thinking! Here are the directions for the activity we completed today in class. Please be reminded that your completed Yellow Wallpaper draft is DUE AT THE END OF THE PERIOD TUESDAY, 1/23. You may have any time after the SCND test to complete your writing, but make sure that you have everything complete by the END OF THE PERIOD.
Happy thinking! To prep for Yellow Wallpaper writing:
Please be prepared for our Unit 9 vocab quiz on WEDNESDAY, 1/24. It will be formatted as follows:
1-20 Definitions/Synonyms 21-30 Antonyms 31-40 Complete the Sentence Happy vocab-ing! We will be having our test on Streetcar Named Desire on TUESDAY, 1/23. It will be formatted as follows:
1-10 Character Identification 11-24 True False 25-50 Multiple Choice Happy reading! In her short story, “Desiree’s Baby,” Kate Chopin depicts Desiree as being subservient to her husband in order to demonstrate how men are more easily able to abscond from responsibility. Following her realization that her child is part African American, Desiree consults Armand, who tells her, “...you are not white.” Desiree attempts to argue this with Armand, stating, “Look at my hand, whiter than yours…” However, Armand remains unmoved and insists that since Desiree is of unknown origins it must be her fault that the child is not completely white. Rather than confronting Armand, Desiree seeks the comfort and help of her mother, which portrays her as weaker than Armand since she chooses to run from her problems rather than try and resolve them. It is later revealed that Armand’s mother “belongs to the race that is cursed with the brand of slavery.” Although Armand’s lineage is to blame for his baby’s race, he chooses not to reveal this information, and instead allows the blame to fall entirely on Desiree. The ability to shift the blame from himself to Desiree demonstrates how men never have to stand up to the realities of life, and istead deflect their guilt to others, usually women. Due to her false guilt, Desiree leaves Armand and goes, not to her mother, but to the bayou, where she drowns herself and the baby. Upon learning the news of her death, Armand has both her and the baby’s belongings burned, and included in this is the letter from his mother that reveals him as being part African American. By burning the evidence of his own “impure” makeup, Armand assures that he will never have to face the reality of his own faults, granting him eternal freedom from his responsibilities.
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