Brit Lit:

Today:
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.

 

We did Sound Effect Stories:
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.