AGENDA
• Review four literary movements and hand in charts.
• Discussion Questions Ch. 7-9
• Checking notebooks while working on discussion
questions.
• Homework: Make sure you have read up to Ch. 18 –
Quiz tomorrow over the novel thus far.
(Dis. 10-18 tomorrow)
ROMANTICISM
• The Romantic Period of English literature began in the late 18th
century and lasted until approximately 1832.
• In general, Romantic literature can be characterized by its
personal nature, its strong use of feeling, its abundant use of
symbolism, and its exploration of nature and the supernatural.
• In addition, the writings of the Romantics were considered
innovative based on their belief that literature should be
spontaneous, imaginative, personal, and free.
REALISM
• An artistic movement begun in 19th century France.
• Represent events and social conditions as they actually are,
without idealization.
• Realism focused on the truthful treatment of the common, average,
everyday life. Realism focuses on the immediate, the here and
now, the specific actions and their verifiable consequences.
Realism seeks a one-to-one relationship between representation
and the subject.
NATURALISM
• (1890 - 1915): The term Naturalism describes a type of literature that
attempts to apply scientific principles of objectivity and detachment to its
study of human beings. The Naturalist believed in studying human beings as
though they were "products" that are to be studied impartially, without
moralizing about their natures.
• Human beings are governed by their instincts and passions as well as the
ways in which the characters' lives were governed by forces of heredity and
environment.
• Darwin's Theory of Evolution is a basis for the Naturalist writer. Natural
selection and survival of the fittest help to depict the struggle against nature
as a hopeless fight.
LOCAL COLOR
• After the Civil War and for nearly three decades was the single
most popular form of American literature, fulfilling a newly
awakened public interest in distant parts of the country and, for
some, providing a nostalgic memory of times gone by.
• It concerned itself mainly with depicting the character of a
particular region, concentrating especially upon the peculiarities
of dialect, manners, folklore, and landscape that distinguish the
area.
CHAPTER 7
1. How is the road to the beach used symbolically in this chapter?
2. How are the lady in black and the two lovers used symbolically in this
chapter?
3. How is the flashback to Edna’s childhood used to show the reader how
Edna has been repressed and lonely all her life?
4. “She grew fond of her husband, realizing with some unaccountable
satisfaction that no trace of passion or excessive and fictitious warmth
colored her affection, thereby threatening its dissolution.”
• How does this omniscience of Chopin reveal Edna’s feelings about
marriage and intimate relationships?
CHAPTER 8
1. Why does Adéle tell Robert to leave
Edna alone? Why is he annoyed by this?
2.How is the sound of the sewing machine
(different from previous sounds) used in
this chapter to reflect mood?
CHAPTER 9
1.
Who is Mademoiselle Reisz? How is she a contrast to
Edna Pontellier?
2. In the past, what image has been evoked in Edna’s mind
by a certain musical passage? How is this a contrast to
Edna’s life up to this point?
3. What is Edna’s response to the music of Mademoiselle
Reisz? How is this related to the “awakening” theme in
the novel?
CHAPTER 10
1. What realization does Edna come to as she walks to the water
with her husband by her side?
2. How are images of sound and smell used as a backdrop to this
scene?
3. How does Edna respond to swimming successfully for the first
time? What happens that can be considered symbolism or
foreshadowing?
4. What is the significance of “the spirits of the twenty-eighth of
August”?
CHAPTER 11
1. How is the theme of rebellion against
marriage shown in Edna’s behavior when
her husband returns? How does this
rebellion end?
CHAPTER 12
• Edna goes to the Chêniére for mass. How are the “lovers” used
here?
• What does Edna do that she has never done before? What phrases
are repeated?
• What is Robert’s reaction? In what position does this put Edna as far
as her relationship with Robert is concerned?
• Who are the people aboard the ship in addition to Robert and
Edna? Briefly explain the significance of these people.
HOMEWORK
•Homework: Make sure you have
read up to Ch. 18 – Quiz tomorrow
over the novel thus far.