We reviewed the characteristics of:
Medieval
Characteristics:
s Idealizes Chivalry (Code of Chivalry – hero-knights
abided by this code)
s Idealizes the noble hero-knight and his daring deeds
s Women are idealized and held in high regard by
hero-knight
s Imaginative, vast, fairytale like setting
s Mystery and supernatural elements abound
s Repetition of the magical numbers 3 and 7
s Tale involves a quest for love and/or adventure by
hero-knight
s Simple, predictable, inevitable plot
Gothic
Characteristics:
1. Setting. It's not quite a castle, but it is a huge mansion with several levels, including a basement and a hidden sub-basement. Dark and drafty. Ominous.
2. Atmosphere of Mystery. It's a multiple murder mystery, with cryptic notes, hidden passageways, wind, lightning, and everyone a suspect.
3. Ancient Prophecy. There is the Musgrave Ritual. Obscure, compelling, ancient.
4. Omens and portents. The crow at the tavern, the intrusive lightning strike, the taunting notes from the butler.
5. Supernatural or inexplicable events. How the victims died. The lightning seems to strike at just the right time.
6. Overwrought emotion. The female lead screams and panics a bit.
7. Women in distress and 8. Women threatened by a male. Toned down here, but the murderer had designs on the heroine.
9. The wind blows, signs bang into the wall, lightning, a few characters are trapped in various ways.
Victorian
Period
1. Literature of
this age tends to come closer to daily life which reflects its practical
problems and interests. It becomes a powerful instrument for human progress.
Socially & economically, Industrialism was on the rise and various reform
movements like emancipation, child labor, women’s rights, and evolution.
2. Moral Purpose: The Victorian literature seems to deviate from
"art for art's sake" and asserts its moral purpose. Tennyson,
Browning, Carlyle, Ruskin - all were the teachers of England with the faith in
their moral message to instruct the world.
3. Idealism: It is often considered as an age of doubt and pessimism.
The influence of science is felt here. The whole age seems to be caught in the
conception of man in relation to the universe with the idea of evolution.
4. Though, the age is characterized as practical and
materialistic, most of the writers exalt a purely ideal life. It is an
idealistic age where the great ideals like truth, justice, love, brotherhood
are emphasized by poets, essayists and novelists of the age.
Listen to each of the sound effects that I played and use your imagination to work it into what happens next in your story. For each you must use 8 of the 10 played sounds.
#1 Medieval
#2 Gothic
#3 Victorian
We shared these.
HW: Please make sure parts 1-4 of your final are completed in a Google doc.
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