The Purpose of this blog

Your task on this blog is to write a brief summary of what we learned in class today. Include enough detail so that someone who was ill or missed the class can catch up with what they missed. Over the course of the term, these 'class scribe' posts will grow to be a guide for the course, written by students for students.

With each post ask yourself the following questions:
1) Is this good enough for our guide?
2) Will your post enable someone who wasnt here to catch up?
3) Would a graphic/video/link help to illustrate what we have learned?


Monday 24 October 2011

Return of the Blogger

Welcome to my (belated) first blog of the new academic year!


During our last lesson with Mr Sadgrove for this half term we focused on the aspect of pathetic fallacy in reference to Wuthering Heights.
We started off the lesson by being asked to find suitable questions for this set of answers:
Horror
Terror
Liminal
Uncanny
Opposition
Heathcliff
Byronic hero
Fragmented Narrative

The questions I came up with go as follows:
What is psychological fear?
What is the word for mental fear?
Give the term for when something is in a state of "in-between".
What is the term for when two contrasting things are put side by side?
What is the name of the male protagonist in Wuthering Heights?
What is the term for an individual who can be described as bein "mad bad and dangerous to know"?
How can the narrative structure in Wuthering Heights be defined?

On to the actual aim of the lesson...

What we know:
Heathcliff's emotions are often reflected by his surroundings.

What we need to know:
Examples of pathetic fallacy in the novel
Literary symbols

We then watched an extract from the marveling Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring where we examined how the surroundings of the characters influenced and contributed the overall atmosphere of the scene.
e.g. green = peace and tranquility

Here are Ruskin's views on pathetic fallacy:
Ascribing human feelings to the inanimate for Ruskin was a derogatory term in that it does not describe the "true appearance of things to us", rather than the extraordinary or false appearances.

We were then asked to use pathetic fallacy to create mood and atmosphere in a given scenario.

To conclude I shall reveal to you what the homework is:
Mr Sadgrove gave us a piece of paper with several extracts on it, we must write a paragraph on each of those looking closely at the language and commenting on the use of pathetic fallacy.
Pathetic fallacy can be any or a combination of these:
Sound
Colour
Wather
Light
Time of day
Season
(Animals also but they are a theme of their own)

Also re-read the Bloody Chamber (pathetic fallacy is also used in that)

Enjoy the holidays guys and girls

Much love,
Aleksandra.


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