[PPT] - Our T H E A G E O F I N N O C E N C E R E C A P PA PowerPoint Presentation

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Our

T H E A G E O F I N N O C E N C E

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LECTURE

SLIDE 2 R E C A P

SOCIAL ORDER

‘REI G N I NG S OV ER IG N S ’ O F C U STO M PA S S A G E - B A S E D Q U E S T I O N SYMBO LS O F A ‘ PRESERV ED ’ , D E AD S O CI ET Y

SLIDE 3 O B J E C T I V E S

CONCERNS METHODS

L I N K E D T O ‘ S O C I A L C O N V E N T I O N ’

PURPOSE

I S I T J U S T A C R I T I Q U E O F R I G I D S T R U C T U R E S ? R E V I S E R E C O N S I D E R

FOR NOSTALGIA

T H I S N A T I O N A L D AY W E E K F O R G I V E M R . L I M BONUS - WHY DID WE PICK THE TEXT?

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CHANGE

IS MORE CONCERNED WITH SOCIAL

STABILITY?

THAN W I TH T O P I C 2013 ‘A’ LEVEL Question 2a

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE

H OW FA R D O YO U AG R E E T H AT

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CRITIQUE

ELEGY

R E A D F I R S T A S A S O C I A L O F O U TM O D E D A N D ME A NINGLE SS RULE S A NOVEL THAT TRACES AND CALLS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE U N D E R STO OD L ATE R A S A N T H E S I S FOR A WORLD OF ORDER A WORK OF NOSTALGIA FOR SOCIAL STABILITY

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PAGE I T I S H E R E T H AT W E B E L O N G … O N E C O M M O N D E S T I N Y

HOMELAND

New York, Our

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OLD NEW YORK

C O N T E X T

WWI

W RIT T EN A F T E R

1870s

S E T I N A M E R I C A U N D E R T H E T I T L E S OC I AL COMME N TARY? AU TOB I OG R AP H Y? H I STO R I CA L F I C T I O N ?

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INNOCENCE

C O N T E X T O F ‘ O L D - F A S H I O N E D ’ N E W Y O R K T H E TITLE IS BOTH ‘IR ON I C ’ A N D ‘TEN D ER ’ CRITICAL OF ‘IMMATURITY’ & CONSTRAINTS APPRECIATIVE OF ‘SIMPLICITY’ AND ‘PURITY’ A R E T R O S P E C T I V E W O R K A B O U T T H E

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strong and free

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PAGE W E B U I LT A N AT I O N … R E A C H I N G O U T T O G E T H E R

ONE CITY

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NEW YORK

A D I F F E R E N T C HA P T E R 3 4 D E P I C T I O N O F ‘ C H A N G E ’ T EC H N O LO GY ‘ WH AT WA S L E F T O F T H E L I T T L E WO RL D ’ ‘ HOW FA R THEY W E R E ’ FADI NG ‘ STA N DA RDS ’ S I G N S O F ‘ P R O G R E S S ’ ‘TH ING S GO O N AT THI S RAT E’ ‘ M O RE TO LERANT ’ ‘NOBODY R E PR OV ED’ ‘ L A R GE R L I F E ’ L E SS ‘ NA R R OW- M I N D E D ’

SLIDE 11 S Y M B O L O F C HA N G E

A R C H E R

D A L L A S

I S A S Y M B O L O F ‘ N E W ’ N E W Y O R K

‘ B L I N D C O N F O R M I T Y

E L L E N O L E N S K A

T O T R A D I T I O N ’

M U C H L I K E T H E ‘ N E W W O M A N ’

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‘DEAF AND DUMB

ASYLUM’

T O N E O F D E R I S I O N A G A I N S T O L D N Y

W H O P R E V I O U S L Y C R I T I C I S E D I T S ‘ALL SORTS OF

NEW’

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MUSEUM

T H E N O V E L A S A A R C HA E O LO G I C A L M O T I F O F B E L I E F S , I D E A S & A R T E FAC T S TO R ECO R D A N D ‘ STA B IL IS E ’ T H E PA ST C H A R AC T E R S O F VA R Y I N G S TAT U S

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CIVILISATIONS

A R C H A E O L O G I C A L M O T I F

T H E P A S S I N G O F

‘CESNOLA Antiquities’ ‘RECoverED FRAGMENTS’ ‘TIME-BLURRED SUBSTANCES’ ‘USED TO BE NECESSARY AND IMPORTANT’ C HA P T E R 3 1

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records

T O S E E ‘ G O O D I N T H E O L D WAY S ’

OLD NEW YORK

recognise

T H E N O V E L I T S U S E A N D VA LU E S O T HAT W E M AY T H E L I F E O F

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PARADE

New York

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PAGE J E W E L S O N T H E O C E A N , G E M S U P O N T H E S E A

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LISTS

O F C L O T H I N G & D E C O R AT I O N O B S E S S I O N W I T H S O C IA L FO R M WHITE EIGHT GOLD SAPPHIRE CAT’S EYE Lilies Lilac Sleeve-links Scarf-pins

W harton’ s

adjectives

nouns

enumeration of

number, colour, material

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Chantilly

V E I L M O D E S T

tulle

T U C K E R PA L E

Muslins

Venetian

POINT BLACK LACE AND A P P E A RA N C E

CINEMATIC DETAIL

C L O T H I N G I S D E S C R I B E D I N

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SLIDE 18 E L L E N T H E ‘ OUTSIDE R’

STATUS DEVIANCE

M AY T H E ‘ I D E A L ’ F A S H I O N A S A S I G N O F ‘ O R D E R ’ A N D B E L O N G I N G C LO T H I N G

SLIDE 19 C LO T H I N G + T H E AT R E TO ‘PERFORM’ THEIR SOCIAL CUSTOMs T H E

Stage

P R I V I L E G E D C L A S S

FO R N E W Y O R K ’ S

SA R T O R IA L C U LT U R E

WHARTON’S TRIBUTE TO

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PAGE T I M E H A S PA S S E D U S B Y… T H I S W I L L A LWAY S B E O U R P E O P L E

NEW YORK

Heartbeat

In a

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Traditions

But, in the first place, New York was a metropolis, and perfectly aware that in metropolises it was “not the thing” to arrive early at the opera; and what was or was not “the thing” played a part as important in Newland Archer's New York as the inscrutable totem terrors that had ruled the destinies of his forefathers thousands of years ago.

T H E I M P O R T A N C E O F

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SOCIAL TRADITIONS

T H E T RA D I T I O N O F t H E N E W YO R K T R I B E A R E

ADHERED

AS ‘TOTE M T E RR O RS ’

Religiously

On the Basis of

History

‘D ESTINIES OF HIS FO RE FAT HE RS TH OUSA NDS O F YE ARS AGO ’ WH A RTO N RECO UNTS A T IME W HE RE T HE S E ‘T RIF LE S ’ O NCE RE IGNE D S UP RE M E

SLIDE 23 I R O N Y

PRIMITIVE TRIBE

COSMOPOLITAN ‘METROPOLIS’

T H AT BE H AV E S LIK E A THESE REGRESSIVE CODES ‘TRAP’, ‘BURY’ AND ‘ELIMINATE’ ARCHER AND ELLEN I S T H I S A C A L L FO R C HA N G E ? T H E N A R RAT O R D E S C R I B E S A

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HEARTS

New York

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PAGE T O G E T H E R W E M A K E A D I F F E R E N C E , O N E V O I C E , O N E D E S T I N Y

in harmony

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Codes

In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done

r even thought, but only represented by a set of

arbitrary signs; as when Mrs. Welland, who knew exactly why Archer had pressed her (and had indeed expected him to do no less)…

A S O C I E T Y O F S E C R E T

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ANCIENT

S I G N S A N D P R A C T I C E S A R C HA E O LO G I C A L M O T I F CR UE L A N D S E N S E L E S S AN INDECIPHERABLE CODE TO KEEP OUTSIDERS AWAY A H I E R O G L Y P H I C C O D E O F

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PRETENCE

J U X TA P O S I T I O N ‘OBLIGED TO SIMULATE’, ‘AIR’ A P P E A R A N C E O F H O S P I TA L I T Y I G N O R I N G T H E U G L Y A N D U N P L E A S A N T

CENSORSHIP

‘NEVER SAID OR DONE OR THOUGHT’ H I D D E N B E N E A T H

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‘IDENTICAL MANNERISMS’

‘SAME VOCABULARY’ ‘SAME LANGUAGE’ ‘CLING TOGETHER’

E V I D E N C E

‘BOTH BEEN TRAINED’

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METHOD E F F E C T PURPOSE

P airWork

I D E N T I F Y T H E OR PATTERN A N A LY S E T H E BASED ON PURPOSE D E C I D E O N ‘JUDGEMENT’ + CONCERN I F S T U C K I N A D I L E M M A 1 ) M E T H O D : D I C T I O N / ‘ L A N G UA G E O F ’ 2 ) C O N C E R N : O L D N Y ’ S ‘ S O C IA L ’

SLIDE 30 E X A M P L E S

E F F E C T S PURPOSE

unity

affinity closeness SOCIAL COHESION

memorialise the

f the period

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PAGE W I T H O U R H A N D S , T H E T O I L O F P E O P L E F R O M A D O Z E N L A N D S

That’s the Way

That We Will Be

SLIDE 32 N A R RAT I V E S T R U C T U R E

DINNERS

T H E D E V I C E O F D RAW S N E W Y O R K ’ S AU T H O R I T Y F I G U R E S

TO GET H E R

‘MANIFOLD IMPLICATIONS’ ‘NO LIGHT MATTER’

‘HONOUR’ 6

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CHAPTER

26

CHAPTER

T O C A S T J U D G E M E N T G O S S I P C HA P T E R S

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CHAPTER CHAPTER

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T O W E L C O M E A N D E X I L E S O C IA L O C C A S I O N S

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NOUVEAU RICHE

I N T R U S I O N B Y T H E FO O D & WA R I M A G E S THIS ‘BATTLE’ OF WEALTH RESULTS IN… TOTAL DISINTEGRATION

‘lay siege’ ‘Vintage Wines’

‘Hot canvas-back ducks’ ‘tight little citadel’

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PAGE W E A R E A R A I N B O W O F A T H O U S A N D C O L O U R S

One United People

A Thousand Eyes

SLIDE 37 T H E AT R E S E T T I N G

ACADEMY

‘ t h e s e n t i me n ta l clung to it for i ts h i sto r i c ass ociations’ T H E O F M U S I C T E N S I O N B E T W E E N F U T U R E A N D P A S T ‘T H E R E WA S A LRE A DY TA LK … O F A N EW O P E RA H OUSE ’ ‘S H A BBY … S O C I A BLE OLD ACA DE MY ’

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SLIDE 38 T H E AT R E M O T I F

SURVEILLANCE

‘ C O U N T L E S S S I L E N T LY O B S E R V I N G E Y E S A N D P A T I E N T LY L I S T E N I N G E A R S ’ A S T A T E O F T O M A I N T A I N S T A B I L I T Y

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ARCHER

I S I M P R I S O N E D BY A N ‘ I N E XO R A B L E ’ R EG I M E P R I S O N + S U R V E I L L A N C E M O T I FS ‘CONSPIRACY ’ ‘ CO U N T L E S S ’ ‘BA N D ’ ‘A RMED CA MP’

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PAGE A P L A C E W H E R E I ’ L L B E S A F E A N D WA R M

This is Where

They Belong

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DISCONTENTMENT ‘RADICAL ’ BELIEFS DESIRE TO BE FREE

A R C H E R ’ S P E R S P E C T I V E

MISFIT

A R C H E R T H E W H O S E M A N I F E S T I N W O R D S A S S O C I A T E D W I T H

CHANGE

SLIDE 42 FO I L T O A R C H E R

A R C H E R

A D E L I N E

M A T U R I T Y + A U T H O R I T Y

SECURITY

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‘ B U T W E B E L O N G H E R E ’

A N A U T H O R I A L V O I C E T H A T C A L L S

UPON ARCHER TO TREASURE NEW YORK’S

& ORDER

M R S . A R C H E R S H I F T S T H E N O V E L B A C K T O A N A P P R E C I A T I O N O F W H A T O L D N E W Y O R K O F F E R S

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NEW YORK

Truly

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PAGE I W ILL ALWAYS RECA L L TH E C I TY, K N OW EV ERY ST R EET A N D S H O R E

T H I S I S

SLIDE 44 CHEERIO DADDY-O! S E T T I N G I N C H 3 4 C’EST MA VIE…

PARIS

New wave change

T H E S T R E E T S O F

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HABIT CHANCE

Old N ew

A R C H E R ’ S T H O U G H T S

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Looking about, he honoured his past, and mourned for it. After all, there was good in the old ways.

‘I'm old-fashioned: that's enough.'

T H E B I L D U N G S R O M A N A C C E P TA N C E O F ‘ S TA B L E ’ O L D N E W Y O R K

good in the old ways.

SLIDE 47 A R C H E R C H O O S E S T H E ‘ S TA B I L I T Y ’ O F H I S P A S T

WALKING AWAY

T H E E N D I N G

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HOME

A N O V E L A B O U T P E R S O N A L R E S P O N S E H O W I T H A S I R R E V O C A B L Y

CHANGED

Y E T R E M I N I S C I N G T H E

PAST

A S A N A G E O F I N N O C E N C E

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THANK

T H E R E ’ S S T I L L A L O N G L O N G W A Y T O G O T O T H E ‘ A ’ s ‘WE’LL STICK TOGETHER’ (289)

Y O U

New York

a