LECTURE 12 T H E A G E O F I N N O C E N C E O N C E L O S T S TA R ESSAY PLANNING
JC1 PROMO EXAM T H E A G E O F I N N O C E N C E A ) E S S A Y Q U E S T I O N b ) P A S S A g E - B A S E D CHOOSE FROM THE TWO OPTIONS WISELy � BOTH REQUIRE MASTERY OF THE WHOLE TEXT � THE PASSAGE WILL BE TAKEN FROM CH 13-30
QUESTION ‘THE MAIN CONCERN OF THE NOVEL IS ARCHER’S REALISATION OF HIS PLACE IN SOCIETY . ’ HOW FAR DO YOU AGREE THIS COMMENT?
N O CONCEPTS I T A S I S L ’ R A E H C E R A R What words, ideas and concerns come to mind?
CONCEPTS HIS PLACE I N S O C I E T Y What words, ideas and concerns come to mind?
ANALYSIS YOU R STAND E M P H A S I S I S O N H O W A N D W H Y BALANCE IS NOT NECESSARY BUT ONE CANNOT AVOID DISCUSSING ARCHER’s REALISATION
CONCERNS RECOGNITION CONTENTMENT DISAFFECTION IGNORANCE REJECTION SPLIT ‘ARCHER’S REALISATION’ INTO MULTIPLE STAGES
ESSAY STRUCTURE C H 34 REALISATION OF HIS PLACE C H 1 OUR ESSAY CAN FOLLOW A RELATIVELY LINEAR PROGRESSION
S E LEC T O N E CONCERN FRO M TH E OVE RVIE W TA BLE R E LEVA N T TO T H E ‘I D E A ’ YOU A RE A SSIGNE D ONC E YO U A R E SAT I S F IED W ITH YOUR CH OICE S E LEC T 1 -3 B R OA D METHODS T HAT MATC H t H E ‘CO N C E R N ’ O K MAY BE S E LEC T ONLY ONE
IGNORANCE T O WA R D S S O C I A L E X P E C TAT I O N S ‘ O PE R A N I GH T ’
1T01-1T02 DISENCHANTMENT W I T H M A N N E R S A N D C O D E S O F S O C I E T Y ‘ARCHER’S DILEMMA’
1T03-07 RECOGNITION O F H I S D U T Y T O M A Y A N D FA M I LY ‘ T HE NEW LY WE DS ’
1T08-23 REJECTION O F S O C I E T Y + E S C A P E ‘ O NLY L IVING BOY I N N EW YO RK ’
1T27-34 CONTENTMENT W I T H H I S ‘ D U L L D U T Y ’ ‘ O, BR AVE N EW L A N D ’
FOCUS ON SKILLS BUT ARE LOST WE ALL AN ESSAY STARS 4
OTHER CONCERN ‘ T I G H T L I T T L E ’ CITADEL THE NOVEL STARTS AS AN ANALYSIS OF OLD NEW YORK’S DEFICIENCIES
MAIN CONCERN EVOLUTION F R O M Y O U T H T O A D U L T IGNORANCE > AWARENESS | CYNICISM > CONTENTMENT
OTHER CONCERN R E C O V E R Y F R O M FANTASY T O W A R D S R E A L I T Y ANOTHER DIMENSION TO ARCHER’S GROWTH
PERSONAL RESPONSE / THESIS O N E M I G H T F I N D A L I M I T E D HAPPINESS I N SECURITY, HONOUR AND LOYALTY
PARAGRAPH STRUCTURE WHAT ToPic Sentence A R C H E R A S ‘bL IND FOLLOW ER’ BULK UP YOUR HOW PARAGRAPH!!! MET H O DS TO S H OW ‘BLIND FOLLOW ING’ W I T H A M P L E QUOTATION WHY ELABORATE ON ‘WHAT’ T H E J O U R N EY BEG I N S F R OM ‘BLINDNE SS’ A N D E N DS O N A S ECURE ‘FOLLOW ING’ 4
HOW THE NARRATOR REPEATEDLY REFERS TO ARCHER AS A ‘YOUNG MAN’ ‘CONTENT’, ’ACCEPT’, ‘SEEMED NATURAL’ BLISSFULLY IGNORANT
HOW PARALLEL S I L L E R T O N J A C K S O N ‘HE FELT AS OLD SILLERTON JACKSON FELT’ DEEMS ELLEN ‘AWFUL’, ‘OFFENCE AGAINST TASTE’
HOW W E N R E K R O NEWLAND Y ARCHER A L L U S I O N S T O T H E TRIBE HIS ALLY OWN HIMSELF KIND WITH
WHY RETURN WITH A TRUE REALISATION OF HIS PLACE W HAT I S T H E P U R P O S E O F P R E S E N T I N G H I M A S A ‘ B L I N D ’ VENTURE FO L LO W E R AT F I R S T ? COMPREHEND TENTATIVENESS ARCHER’S PLACE IS NOT YET ‘STABLE’
AVOIDING NARRATION A LWA Y S C I T E EVIDENCE E X P L I C I T LY R E F E R T O M E T H O D S : PERSPECTIVE WORD PATTERNS E.G. ‘THE NARRATOR USES WORDS LINKED TO TRADITION’ C O M M E N T O N EFFECTS O F S P EC I F I C WO R DS E.G. ‘THE WORD ‘SANK’ CONNOTES HIS DISAPPOINTMENT’
HOW his heart sank shivered a li � le shiver of foreboding T H E N A R R ATO R U S E S T H E L E X I S O F NEGATIVE EMOTION 5
HOW What would become of this narrow margin of life in which his real experiences were lived? What if "niceness" carried to that supreme degree were only a negation, the curtain dropped before an emptiness? A R C H E R ’ S T H O U G H TS RHETORICAL QUESTIONS CONVEY H I S D R E AD OF T H E FU T U R E
HOW intensifiers filled sudden elaborate exasperation futility NOUNS ARCHER’S THOUGHTS E X P R E S S HIS D ISI L LU S I O N M E N T
WHY A R C H E R ‘O B J EC T I V E LY ’ A N A LYS E S NEW YORK I T N OW F E E L S ‘ S M A L L A N D D I S TA N T ’
WHAT MARRIAGE A S A ‘ B U R I E D L I F E ’ 5
STAYING RELEVANT A R C H E R ’ S R O L E A S SON-IN-LAW WE ARE KEEPING TO THE SAME CONCERN! R ECO G N I S I N G H IS DUT Y ST R I V E S TO E S CA PE H IS R OLE AG G R I EV E D V I EW OF OBLIGATIONS L I F E H E WA S E X P ECTED TO LE A D L AC K OF F R E E D OM I N H I S S OC I A L D UT I E S RE SI GN AT I O N TO BE I N G ‘CH A INE D’ TO TH E M T H E S E T R I F L E S A RE OVE RP OW ERING H I S N EW L I F E I S ‘U N R E A L A ND IRRE LEVA NT’ H I S SYST E M AT I S E D A N D A F F LUE NT E X ISTE NCE D RI F T I N G AWAY F R O M HIS S OCIA L PERIMETE R
HOW ANIMAL TRAPPED BY FA MI LY / S OC I AL C U STOMS
HOW DIS CIPLIN E D CLO CKS P RI S O N M OT I F WATCHFU L SERVANTS ‘WHOLE CHAIN OF TYRANNICAL TRIFLES H E AV Y CA RPETS BINDING ONE HOUR TO THE NEXT’ S U F F O C A T E D B Y T H E SETTING O F T H E W E L L A N D S ’ H O U S E
HOW & WHY CONFUSION OF VISIONS AND REALITIES ARCHER’s REAL EXISTENCE BECOMES ‘UNREAL AND IRRELEVANT’ HIS VISION OF ELLEN DISPLACES IT AS HE FLIES AWAY FROM HIS SOCIAL CIRCLE
WHAT C H A S I N G ELLEN COINCIDES WITH REPUDIATION OF HIS DUTY TO MAY - PRESENTATION OF ARCHER’S DECEPTION - HIS VISION THROUGH DIRECT DISCOURSE 6
STEPS FOR ANALYSIS METHOD THE NARRATOR INFORMS US OF HIS LIES… EVIDENCE ‘FURNISHING DETAILS WITH ALL LAWRENCE LEFFERTS’ PRACTISED GLIBNESS’ CLOSE ANALYSIS ‘FURNISHING’, ‘GLIBNESS’ CARRY DISAPPROVING TONE PURPOSE TO PORTRAY THE PATHETIC, CHILDISH NATURE OF ARCHER’S AVOIDANCE OF HIS PLACE IN SOCIETY
STEPS FOR ANALYSIS (2) METHODS HE PROCLAIMS… (USE OF DIRECT DISCOURSE) EVIDENCE ‘I WANT—I WANT SOMEHOW TO GET AWAY WITH YOU INTO A WORLD WHERE WORDS LIKE THAT.. WON’T EXIST… WHERE WE SHALL BE SIMPLY… NOTHING ELSE ON EARTH WILL MATTER.’ CLOSE ANALYSIS REPETITION OF ‘I WANT’, ’SOMEHOW’, ‘NOTHING ELSE’ ALL EVOKE AN AIR OF DESPERATION (EFFECT). PURPOSE THE ABOVE REFLECTS THE GREATEST DISTANCE YET BETWEEN OUR YOUNG PROTAGONIST AND THE REALITY OF ‘HIS PLACE’
WHAT A R E M I N D E R A B O U T MARRIAGE T H E T I E S T HAT B I N D MEDORA MANSON (CH 17) CATHERINE MINGOTT (CH 30) MAY WELLAND (CH 28)
STEPS FOR ANALYSIS (3) METHOD 3 DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES (DIRECT DISCOURSE) EVIDENCE ‘AFTER ALL, MARRIAGE IS MARRIAGE’ (132, 247) ‘AFTER ALL, HER DUTY IS WITH HER HUSBAND’ (226) CLOSE ANALYSIS RESIGNED TONE IN THE REPEATED PHRASE ‘AFTER ALL’ PURPOSE INDIRECTLY OR DIRECTLY REMIND ARCHER ABOUT HIS ‘UNESCAPABLE DUTY’ TO MAY AND BY EXTENSION, THE ROLE HE HAS TO PLAY.
WHAT T R U E REALISATION I N T H E F I N AL CH A PTER 7
HOW A N O L D E R A R C H E R REFLECTS U P O N T H E 2 6 Y E A R S C H A N G E I N TO N E TO E N L I G H T E N E D F U L F I L M E N T I N H I S ‘ D I G N I T Y ’ , ‘ H O N O U R ’ , ‘ P R I D E ’ , ’ G O O D ’
HOW T H E V I S I O N O F ELLEN O N C E M O R E A R C H E R SYM B O L I CA L LY I S ‘ R O OT E D ’ I N R E A L I T Y A N D WA L KS BAC K TO H I S P L AC E I N S O C I E T Y
WHY A R C H E R F U L F I L S H I S DESTINY A DESTINY OF ‘SAMENESS’ AND ‘TRADITION’
CONCLUSION A S I L L Y B O Y N O M O R E JOURNEY T O W A R D S SELF-REALISATION
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