Thursday, September 13, 2012

Class Notes September 13, 2012


Satire- is the uses of sarcasm, exaggeration, melodrama, irony, hyperboles, parodies, etc. to mock societal flaws situations, people, topic for the purpose of change.

*Remember for tomorrow*

Revolutions:

1700s
2000s
-Hunger started the revolution
-Madame Defarge is waiting (brewing)
-Marie Antoinette figure
-New names (red vs. yellow shirts)
-Blocked Media
*-Media shows a change: “hunger” as cause
*-Don’t die as easily
-Becomes bigger faster (media)
-Global connections because everyone is connected economically and politically other countries are more likely to help now

Both:
·      SPARK (one little thing that caused mass chaos)
·      Influenced by others
·      Similar in ways they started
·      Government issues
·      Oppression of lower classes
·      Poor resenting luxuries
·      Armies joined in rebel forces
·      Public Humiliation (Gadafie vs. Louis XVI)
·      Extremist
·      Violence and bold movements to support their cause (Father killing Monseigneur and man in Tunisian revolution lighting himself on fire)
·       Martyrdom (Carton and Man in Tunisia)

What is Dickens adding to history that helps us understand?
·      Humanity
·      Primary, first hand, perspective, aftermath
·      Attitudes/Motives  (Provides us with a very human thing- Family)
·      Creative License

Dickens Creative License with Terror
·      Sometimes a creepy eeriness (mist, darkness, ghost) Beginning of book
·      Book 3 Chapter 5 Dance around Lucie while she is standing in front of La Force. (Carmagnole) Nightmare clearly not real.
o   Exaggeration: 5 thousand demons
o   Foreboding (devices: repetition, horrific diction exaggeration).
o   Want it to end because it is so long and you feel it more and see the torture behind this dance. 
·      Book 3 Chapter 15,
o   crushing humanity
o   Diction graphic
o   Lack of subject making this even creepier
o   Metaphor days “wine” that we are going to get drunk on is the people’s blood that dies
o   Capitalization
o   Guillotines becomes essence more than itself
o   Personification
 

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