Blog 1 Spe 2020-2021

 

 

 Read act 1 again THEN  watch the  following scene and sum up the main ideas. What do you think of the setting? the actors? Why? Can you explain the elements which make the scene funny? What do you learn about love and marriage in this extract?

   Oswar Wilde: Homework Make sure you have already answered the questions "Introduction Part 1 and Part 2" . Then : A) Read the article Art for Art's Sake (on the blog) B) Read the first act of the play " The Importance of being Earnest " C) Answer the following questions:   Wilde and The Importance of Being Earnest     1) Give your own definition of Art for Art's Sake?  2) What did you learn about Wilde in the article. Use your own words.     3) Who are the different characters in Act 1 and how are they related?     4) Who is Bunbury? What does "Bunburying" mean? Use your own words.    5) What makes Act 1 funny. Use different examples.  

  Oscar Wilde’s Role in Literature’s “Aesthetic Movement”  from the Lecture Series: Victorian Britain , February 27, 2019  adapted from an article by By Patrick N. Allitt, Ph.D., Emory University The Aesthetic Movement was an artistic expression of “art for art’s sake.” Disavowing notions of literature’s societal necessity, Oscar Wilde wrote in opposition to Dickensian literature—and influenced generations.  One of the English literary exponents of the Aesthetic Movement was Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde was one of the first great celebrities who was famous for being famous. He was already a famous person before he had any literary achievements at all. He was a deliberate debunker of Victorian gravity and solemnity. He was Irish, born in Dublin in 1854. He made a great success of his studies at Trinity College, Dublin, and won a scholarship to go to Magdalen College, Oxford. When he was there, he got a first class degree in the classics and won a Newdigat...

  1 LLCE TEST   Explain why this text perfectly illustrates the gothic imagination. (write three parts)   adapted from Frankenstein (I818), Mary Shelley   It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs. How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! - Great God! His yellow skin ...

The Victorian era/ Introduction part2 A)       Use the following websites to answer the questions :  https://www.britannica.com/event/Victorian-era http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/women_home/ideals_womanhood_01.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/women_out/urban_life_01.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/industry_invention/britain_workshop_world_01.shtml QUESTIONS : 1.       Why was the period called the Victorian era ? 2.       Why can we say the Victorian society was a hierarchy ?  3.       What were the main values at that time in Britain ? 4.       How were women seen ? 5.       Why was Britain said to be the workshop of the world ? 6.  ...