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LITERATURE PAPER ONE
LECTURE TWELVE
THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
LECTURE THE
To read literarily is to appreciate and understand your text for its literary qualities - the METHODS - and how they contribute to the writer’s CONCERNS. To write literarily then is to ‘interface’ between the two: to show HOW STYLE CREATES MEANING.
INNOCENT NO MORE
VISIONS AND REALITIES FREEDOM AND ENTRAPMENT OTHERNESS / THE OUTSIDER PATRIARCHAL NORMS THE RULES OF THE TRIBE SOCIAL FORM AND CUSTOMS INDIVIDUAL SACRIFICE THE NEW WOMAN SOCIAL SATIRE SOCIAL CRITIQUE HISTORICAL NOVEL BILDUNGSROMAN ROMANTIC TRAGEDY AUTO-BIOGRAPHY
“ARCHER’S DILEMMA” ROMANTIC
ALSO A SYMBOLIC CHOICE OF TWO IRRECONCILABLE WORLDS
“ARCHER’S DILEMMA”
DOES HE HAVE A ?
Narrator’s PERSPECTIVE Death & prison MOTIFS
“Dilettante” (4) “Young men” (30, 78) “Ineffectual aim” (184) “Buried alive” (114, 242) “Prisoner” (267, 277)
boy
JUST A CITY BORN AND RAISED ON WEST 28TH ST
AND LITERARY + ROMANTIC
AUTHORS
reality
HIS ONLY
WHICH BECOME PERHAPS HE DOES MAKE A OF STATUS / MATERIAL WEALTH OVER
being (165)
“dreadfully common”
CALL ME MAY ARCHER
new york!
ITS FORM ITS CUSTOMS ITS CONVENTIONS
THE INTRICATE CLOSED WORLD OF
AS INEXORABLE POWERFUL ENGINE
(35, 61, 277)
Avenue
Tribal Parochiality
Hieroglyphic WORLD Dolls & PATTERNS
(36) (68)
Fearful of
“DISINTEGRATION” (41, 69, 210)
Discipline & HONOUR
(207, 212, 217, 222)
INDIVIDUAL
(91, 138-9, 171, 258)
“After all... we have lives of our own” (257) ...as Mrs Archer put it, they “owed it to society” to show themselves at the opera (261)
Without madness
Remember that you have BOOK ONE (18 chapters) and BOOK TWO (16 chapters) How is the novel structured around the topic? If you find it difficult to construct an ‘argument’, just track the major plot points.
THE BIG PICTURE
‘Doomed to failure’ - presentation of relationships: The Archer-Olenska relationship develops through the course of Book One from Ch 8 until Ch 18, where it appears ‘doomed to failure’ by May’s bringing forward of the marriage date. [Elaborate] Rekindled in Book Two, the affair meets its ultimate ‘doom’
THE BIG PICTURE
Avoid merely pointing out similarity. Don’t bother stating that a similar method is used elsewhere. The ‘PLACEMENT’ of the passage matters. So does the LINK between the passage and other chapters.
CROSS-REFERENCES
Write a critical commentary on this Ch 16 extract... The passage provides a summary of New York’s verdict on the Countess Olenska through Mrs. Welland’s perspective, confirming the reader’s impression of her exclusion from Chapters 1-2.
CROSS-REFERENCES
It is important to point out WHO IS SPEAKING and in what tone. This ‘point of view’ used by the writer always serves a function.
PERSPECTIVE
‘Doomed to failure’ - presentation of relationships:
Interestingly, Ellen provides an even more unsentimental account of relationships than Wharton’s ‘cold’, distant narrator. She dismisses, perhaps even derides, Newland’s wishful thinking that they could be ‘simply two human beings in love with each other’ without a care for the rest of the world.
PERSPECTIVE
Write a critical commentary on this Ch 16 extract... The narrator presents to us to Archer’s sarcastic inner voice (‘he felt like answering’) which he chooses not to
and disdain for New York’s many hypocrisies, the writer in fact emphasises Newland’s cowardice.
PERSPECTIVE
Write a critical commentary on this Ch 16 extract...
‘not at all’) portrays the extent of Ellen’s otherness and reinforces her air of superiority seen in the phrases, ‘No wonder’ and ‘I’m afraid’.
DICTION + SYNTAX
‘Doomed to failure’ - presentation of relationships:
Early in the novel, the writer hints that a life with Ellen would be one of relative poverty via setting: Ellen’s ‘strange quarter’ is portrayed as ‘peeling’, ‘feeble’ and her neighbour Ned Winsett’s wooden house is ‘dilapidated’ and ‘dishevelled’.
MOTIFS + SETTING
CHARACTER ROLES Riviere and Winsett, Mrs. Archer / Welland / Mingott, Medora Manson CHARACTER NAMES Ellen Olenska, Poor Ellen, Mrs. Manson Mingott
OTHER METHODS
(GOOD LUCK)
BON VOYAGE chance!
FIN.