Starkfield is located in the Bershires; below is a quintessential New England village as imagined by Wharton in Ethan Frome
granite outcropping
In what way is Ethan Frome like a granite outcropping?
Due tomorrow: compare / constrast essay on The Story of an Hour and The Yellow Wallpaper.
AND please get yourself registered for a free Prezi account by tomorrow. http://prezi.com/
In class: reading content quiz on pages 3-25.
review of Ethan Frome so far: Naturalism, flashback format, characters, setting, tone
Below is a review of the literary movement naturalism, which you have already studied in reading Crane's Maggie, Girl of the Streets. Make sure you are thoroughly familiar with the definition and how they impact the literary elements of characterization, setting, tone, plot and theme.
Homework for Thursday: please read through chapter 3, page- expect a quiz
Homework for Friday, March 15: please read through page 87- chapter 4- again, expect a quiz
Homework for Monday, March 18: read through page 128, chapter 7...yup, content quiz
Homework for Tuesday, March 19- finish novel.
The following material was excerpted from http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/natural.htm
Naturalism was a literary movement taking place from the 1880s to 1940s that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character. It was depicted as a literary movement that seeks to replicate a believable reality, as opposed to such movements as Romanticism or Surrealism, in which subjects may receive highly symbolic, idealistic, or even supernatural treatment. Naturalistic writers were influenced by Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.[ They believed that one's heredity and social environment largely determine one's character. Whereas realism seeks only to describe subjects as they really are, naturalism also attempts to determine "scientifically" the underlying forces (e.g., the environment or heredity) influencing the actions of its subjects.
1. Nature as an indifferent force acting on the lives of human beings.
2. The forces of heredity and environment as they affect--and afflict--individual lives.
3. An indifferent, deterministic universe.
4.Naturalistic texts often describe the futile attempts of human beings to exercise free will, often ironically presented, in this universe that reveals free will as an illusion.
survival, determinism, violence, and taboo as key themes.
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