Talati Brit LIt Exam Essay by Pooja Talati https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u This is a working outline for the semester exam in British Literature II. en-us 2018-12-07 14:15:24 UTC 2025-10-23 04:25:07 UTC hello@padlet.com Thesis ptalati https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/312742318
Literature provides humanity a way to discuss and consequently humanize "the things of the world," specifically those things which we may not experience directly. While we, as humans, technically experience death, only through discussing it do we truly realize the graveness and finality of this event. As seen in The Death of a Moth, Frankenstein, and Life, discussing the fact that, although we try, we cannot overcome the limits of human existence and avoid our life's termination humanizes the concept of death. ]]> 2018-12-10 00:51:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/312742318 #1 Paragraph ptalati https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/312742333 In The Death of the Moth, Woolf uses a moth's uninevitable approach towards death as a metaphor to humans' own unavoidable demise. ]]> 2018-12-10 00:51:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/312742333 #1a Evidence ptalati https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/312742784 "O yes, he seemed to say, death is stronger than I am."
Death of a Moth
Virginia Woolf]]> 2018-12-10 00:55:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/312742784 #1a Analysis ptalati https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/312742811 The reader realizes that death is inescapable to all creatures. As Woolf describes the moth's fruitless struggle to carry out lengthen its life, the reader understands that fighting against his or her own end results in defeat, just as the moth's fight did.]]> 2018-12-10 00:55:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/312742811 Great thesis, Pooja. What are the limits you are referring to? Which quote are you responding to? Maybe allude to it implicitly in your thesis. megryan https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/312947991 2018-12-10 14:53:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/312947991 #1b Evidence ptalati https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/312962004 "It was useless to try to do anything. One could only watch the extraordinary efforts made by those tiny legs against an oncoming doom which could, had it chosen, have submerged an entire city, not merely a city, but masses of human beings; nothing, I knew, had any chance against death. Nevertheless after a pause of exhaustion the legs fluttered again. It was a superb this last protest..."]]> 2018-12-10 15:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/312962004 #1b Analysis ptalati https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/312965076 **need to cut down quote**
Woolf describes watching the moth struggle against death. Also, Woolf talks about the power of death.]]> 2018-12-10 15:17:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/312965076 #2 Paragraph ptalati https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/312968248 In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley's main character Victor Frankenstein attempts to combat the unavoidability of death by creating life. However, tampering with the natural order causes him severe consequences, proving that trying to defeat death will invite serious repercussions. ]]> 2018-12-10 15:22:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/312968248 #2a Evidence ptalati https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/312971467 "Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge.." (31)
(also look at p24)]]> 2018-12-10 15:27:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/312971467 #2b Evidence ptalati https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/312976113 "...I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime." (34)]]> 2018-12-10 15:34:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/312976113 #3 Paragraph ptalati https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/313492907 In Life, Anna Barbauld recognizes how her life, and all life, must come to an end. ]]> 2018-12-11 16:49:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/313492907 #3a Evidence ptalati https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/313495788 "I know not what thou art, But know that thou and I must part; "]]> 2018-12-11 16:54:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/313495788 #3b Evidence ptalati https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/313496594 "we’ve been long together, through pleasant and through cloudy weather; ’tis hard to part when friends are dear; perhaps ’t will cost a sigh, a tear; then steal away, give little warning, choose thine own time; "]]> 2018-12-11 16:55:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/313496594 #2 Analysis ptalati https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/313588462 After trying to control death by creating life, Frankenstein's creation completely ruins Frankenstein's life, and the only time Frankenstein feels peace again is when he dies. ]]> 2018-12-11 19:35:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/313588462 #2c Evidence ptalati https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/313592782 "... his eyes closed forever, while the irradiation of a gentle smile passed away from his lips" (162).]]> 2018-12-11 19:43:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/313592782 #3 Analysis ptalati https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/313594251 Barbauld in the piece alludes to the idea that death will inevitably ends life, and we won't know when. ]]> 2018-12-11 19:46:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/313594251 Works Cited ptalati https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/313596175 Barbauld, Anna Laetitia. "Life." The Norton Anthology of Poetry, by Margaret Ferguson et al., 5th ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2005, pp. 435-36.
Popova, Maria. "Between the World and Us: Hannah Arendt on Outsiderdom, the Power and Privilege of Being a Pariah, and How We Humanize Each Other." Brain Pickings. Accessed 13 Dec. 2018.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein. Dover Publications, 1994.
Woolf, Virginia. The Death of the Moth, and Other Essays. E-book, EBooks@Adelaide, 2015.
]]> 2018-12-11 19:50:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/313596175 Rough Draft Recording ptalati https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/314500380 to play, choose "open with" and then "music player for google drive"]]> 2018-12-13 23:24:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ptalati/nldnth9hhz6u/wish/314500380