Brit Lit II Exam by https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9 tracing a common theme through 3 pieces of literature en-us 2018-12-09 21:40:40 UTC 2024-10-08 22:32:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/File.png Thesis bshutzberg https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/312757987 Literature often provides evidence of the lives humans tend to live. While each individual travels down his or her own path, we tend to witness characters committing similar actions, and often these actions cause downfall. 

Analyzing Victor Frankenstein's unnatural creation, King Lear's fall from power, and Heathcliff's eternal love for Catherine, readers witness the penalties characters face while coveting new knowledge, control, or revenge.

]]> 2018-12-10 02:55:57 UTC https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/312757987 P1: Frankenstein bshutzberg https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/312758017 In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley depicts man’s commonality of desire for new knowledge as she argues the dangers of becoming obsessed with the pursuit of understanding. ]]> 2018-12-10 02:56:09 UTC https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/312758017 P2: Lear bshutzberg https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/312758035 In King Lear, William Shakespeare portrays man’s commonality of desire for control as he argues that seeking power over all can blind man to the degradation he causes and loss he faces.]]> 2018-12-10 02:56:17 UTC https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/312758035 P3: Heathcliff bshutzberg https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/312758056 Lastly in Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë illustrates man’s commonality of desire for revenge as she argues the harsh effects eternal love can have on the heart of man.]]> 2018-12-10 02:56:24 UTC https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/312758056 Evidence 1 bshutzberg https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/312758108 • "i may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle... I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man" (1)

• "One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of knowledge which I sought for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race." (11)

• " Study had before secluded me from the intercourse of my fellow-creatures, and rendered me unsocial..." (45)

• "I am thy creature, and I will be even mild and docile to my natural lord and king, if thou wilt also perform thy part, the which thou owest me...I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend... You my creator abhor me... You accuse me of murder, and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature." (69)

• "sorrow only increased with knowledge... of what strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock." (85)

• "He had abandoned me, and in the bitterness of my heart I cursed him." (94)]]> 2018-12-10 02:56:45 UTC https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/312758108 Evidence 3 bshutzberg https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/312758121 • "I forgive what you have done to me. I love my  murderer - but yours! How can I?" (119)

• "Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest... I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!" (124)

• "My old enemies have not beaten me - now would be the precise time to revenge myself on their representatives - I could do it; and none could hinder me - But where is the use? I don't care for striking..." (237)


]]> 2018-12-10 02:56:52 UTC https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/312758121 Evidence 2 bshutzberg https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/312758130 • "When she was dear to us we did hold her so, but now her price is fallen." (1.1.195-196)

• "The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, that it's had it head bit off by it young." (1.4.205-206) - overcontrolling --> people let you down 

• "I confess that I am old; Age is necessary: on my knees I beg..." (2.4.150-151) - he now begs on his knees/his daughters strip him of last remaining dignity/humanity

• "Poor naked wretches... O, I have ta'en too little care of this!" (3.4.28-33)]]> 2018-12-10 02:56:57 UTC https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/312758130 Analysis 1 bshutzberg https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/312758168 • pursuit of knowledge is only good to an extent - do not make obsession or becomes dangerous --> ignorance = bliss, knowledge is not

• Victor's academic ambition and creation/tampering with natural order pulled him away from nature - he puts himself above natural order 

• Victor made the monster, so he is responsible for him/his creation - if Victor were to do his part, the monster would behave well 

• ever since he sought this new knowledge and created an unnatural being never accomplished by man, he has not been satisfied, so he shut his creation out 

• Victor shows his monster no compassion and isolates him - this is how we are able to see why the monster is who he is - his pain from abandonment has formed into hate and that is why he acts out and retaliates against Frankenstein, eventually resulting in Victor's loss of all his loved ones ]]> 2018-12-10 02:57:10 UTC https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/312758168 Analysis 3 bshutzberg https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/312758185 • Heathcliff's love for Catherine is so powerful that it both pushes him to seek revenge and keep him from carrying it out (his love for her may even be stronger than his love for himself - his love for her seems more powerful when she dies

• Heathcliff is super codependent on Catherine, so he responds in a very dramatic/tragic way to her death 

• Heathcliff forces his son to court Cathy - he is so set on revenge that he would do anything to make their relationship blossom/happen (even lock Nelly and Cathy in Wuthering Heights until Cathy weds Linton) in order to claim Thrushcross Grange - but no matter how miserable and uncomfortable Heathcliff makes the young couple, Cathy says they will have the revenge of knowing Heathcliff's cruelty arises from his great misery

• Heathcliff encounters so many reminder of his dead love --> lost his will to revenge -- he stops eating and just wishes to be alone (he no longer maintains his desire for worldly necessities and focuses on spirit/going back to Catherine/being with her after death) (241)


]]> 2018-12-10 02:57:15 UTC https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/312758185 Analysis 2 bshutzberg https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/312758207 • Growing up as king, Lear has only known what it's like to live with everything he wants - he has always been obeyed and never told no so when Cordelia stands up to her father, his pride is wounded and his authority is questioned, so he casts his daughter out/treats her as less/left her with no inheritance

• Lear believes his daughter is nothing without him and his family name - feels as though he is able to treat her as such (as property/worthless)

• Lear expects his daughters to flatter him/expects their love and praise to continue on when he is finally out of power but he loses it instead

• Lear is left out in the storm and is reluctant to go inside because the suffering of his body eases the anguish of his mind - recognition of true natures of his disloyal daughters

• Lear has a moment of realization - he has never considered other people - bc of his position and power, he never felt/considered those he ruled over bc he never suffered as king or faced many challenges

• money and power protect people and have the power to hide sins and their vices (why people like lear covet)]]> 2018-12-10 02:57:21 UTC https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/312758207 Works Cited bshutzberg https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/312758243 Works Cited
Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights. Dover Publications, 2017.

Shakespeare, William. King Lear. Oxford Press, 2012.

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Dover Publications, 2016.
]]> 2018-12-10 02:57:41 UTC https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/312758243 Extremely thorough evidence! This would be one whole essay by itself! :) megryan https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/312957886 2018-12-10 15:08:05 UTC https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/312957886 Excellent thesis, Becca. Which quote are you responding to? Add that into your thesis implicitly. megryan https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/312958311 2018-12-10 15:08:44 UTC https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/312958311 Video of rough draft bshutzberg https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/313854083 2018-12-12 14:41:38 UTC https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/313854083 revised thesis bshutzberg https://padlet.com/bshutzberg/swejffcvp5q9/wish/313856132 Through Victor Frankenstein's unnatural creation, King Lear's fall from power, and Heathcliff's eternal love for Catherine, the authors “point [readers] towards commonality" as they describe penalties characters face while coveting new knowledge, control, or revenge.

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