Homework:
1) Design 1 or 2 discussion questions that reference the theme (don't need to post).
2) Comment on the post regarding the critical article you read: most important points of the article, and/or comment on other peoples comments.
New Writing Workshop prompt: choose one and write an analytical essay addressing the prompt.
- Rough Draft due September 25 (Wednesday)
Upcoming Test - After we get back from Innerquest
Passages to look at:
"Every eye was turned to the Jury. The same determined patriots and good republicans as yesterday and the day before, and tomorrow and the day after... A life thirsting-cannibal-looking, bloody-minded juryman, the Jaques Three of St. Antoine. The whole jury, as a jury of dogs empanelled to try the deer." (Book 3, "The Game Made")
- Jurors are dogs in metaphor = they are no longer even human; they are animals
- DEHUMANIZATION - Can also be seen through Dickens using the SEA as a metaphor for the people.
- Jurors are out for blood
- "patriots" and "republicans" is sarcastic and satirical
- "yesterday", "day before", "tomorrow" etc. is to show a constancy in their behavior
- Makes it sound ongoing, never ending
- Antithesis - future and past
Antithesis: A close juxtaposition of opposite words, ideas, phrases. DICKENS LIKES OPPOSITES.
Stone faces motif:
- Doctor Manette sometimes lapses into his 'episodes' when he has a stone like face
"'It does not take long to strike a man with Lightening,' said Defarge.
'How long,' demanded madame, composedly, 'does it take to make and store the lightening? Tell me.'" (Book 2, "Still Knitting")
- Nature metaphor - "We are like nature. We are going to wait and store up energy and then we are going to strike" - Ms. Coffey's interperatation.
Related quote: "'Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop,' returned madame; 'but don't tell me.'" (Book 3, "Darkness")
- Nature metaphor: Madame Defarge is saying that she is no longer part of nature - she is above it.
- Wind and fire are hard to control. Madame Defarge is saying that she is even more uncontrollable than they are.
- This shows that Madame Defarge is going against the natural, making her an unnatural upset in creation - Balance of Natural Order - Shakespeare
"The unseen force was drawing himself fast to itself, now, and all the tides and winds were setting straight and strong towards it" (Book 2, "Drawn to the Loadstone").
- FATE - the other natural force. MANY references to the Greek Fates in this novel.
"By strange stern ways, and through much stained blood, those feet had come to meet the water" (Book 3, The Knitting Done").
Related quote: "The basin fell to the ground broken, and the water flowed to the feet of Madame Defarge. By strange stern ways, and through much stained blood, those feet came to meet that water" (Book 3, "The Knitting Done").
- Madame was fated to come there
- LATER, her time runs out and her life comes to an end, as was fated.
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