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Remnant Trust: Frankenstein
Frankenstein is a monster who is confused with what purpose he was created. He doesn’t understand why he is around, just to be ignored. He even compares himself to a child and his creator to a father but doesn’t understand why his “father” would disown him. He says things, such as how humans are like fire. Fire can cook food and keep him warm but when he touches it, he gets burnt. Likewise, humans seem so good to each other, but are so mean to him. He says he could feel like both “Adam” and “Satan” after he found the Paradise Lost book, because Victor Frankenstein wanted nothing to do with him.
Our culture doesn’t see the monster as such a bad thing. Our culture has made cereal brands, costumes, books, and movies over him. There are at least one hundred films available retelling the monsters’ story. Some examples are “The Frankenstein Symphony” By Francis Dhomont and Christopher Isherwood’s modern version of Frankenstein, titled “Frankenstein: The True Story.” You can even go on the web and find hundreds of things that have to do with him. You don’t even have to search to web to find him. Go into the grocery store and look at the cereal brands or even watch the children or adults during Halloween because you would be surprised on how big this monster really is! -- Written by ENGL083-36N Group 4
Our culture doesn’t see the monster as such a bad thing. Our culture has made cereal brands, costumes, books, and movies over him. There are at least one hundred films available retelling the monsters’ story. Some examples are “The Frankenstein Symphony” By Francis Dhomont and Christopher Isherwood’s modern version of Frankenstein, titled “Frankenstein: The True Story.” You can even go on the web and find hundreds of things that have to do with him. You don’t even have to search to web to find him. Go into the grocery store and look at the cereal brands or even watch the children or adults during Halloween because you would be surprised on how big this monster really is! -- Written by ENGL083-36N Group 4
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Remnant Trust: Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Tale
The story of the Wife of Bath’s Tale has a reoccurring theme that represents how you can be loyal but your actions do not always make you noble. The Wife of Bath’s Tale is about a knight that breaks the law and the Queen tells him that he will not be beheaded if he searches for a year and a day to find what women most desire. Then the Knight finds an old lady in the search and she tells the Knight what he wants if he promises her his hand in marriage. Later on in the story the old lady notices that he is a jerk, not noble, and she gives him a long lecture about how being rich and rude will not get him anywhere in life. The old lady helps him realize that looks and money will not amount to how loyal she can be. She even tells him that loyalty is more than money in the end.
The Wife of Bath’s Tale is important to Western Literature because it undermines royal marriages. Nobility was thought of as having more power and money than everyone else and that they could rule the city. In that time period, peasants were not allowed to marry someone with noble blood. The Wife of Bath’s Tale was the first major story that was written in Middle English. When reading this story we feel as if it is close to being a big business, how each employee is trying to become the top seller. All top sellers convince consumers to buy the product. The top seller in The Wife of Bath’s Tale is the old lady, she convinced the Knight to marry her in return for gaining the answer of what most women desire.
The Wife of Bath’s Tale is a feminist story, and is both empowering and insulting towards women. The story is empowering because the Queen wants the Knight to find out what women most desire. In reality, all women do not have one thing that they desire and because of that, this story is insulting. As the old lady suggests, we women would like to have control over our husband, but that is a snippet of what we desire. The Wife of Bath’s Tale reminds us of the movie Mean Girls because it is about popularity, money, looks and the power of women. The story also deals with popularity because the knight is too noble for the old lady, money because the knight does not want to marry her; she is poor, and looks because the old lady is not beautiful. The power of women because during the story the queen is in charge of the punishment and tells the knight to find the one thing women most desire. If the knight finds what women most desire, then he will not be beheaded. -- Written by ENGL083-36N Group 3
The Wife of Bath’s Tale is important to Western Literature because it undermines royal marriages. Nobility was thought of as having more power and money than everyone else and that they could rule the city. In that time period, peasants were not allowed to marry someone with noble blood. The Wife of Bath’s Tale was the first major story that was written in Middle English. When reading this story we feel as if it is close to being a big business, how each employee is trying to become the top seller. All top sellers convince consumers to buy the product. The top seller in The Wife of Bath’s Tale is the old lady, she convinced the Knight to marry her in return for gaining the answer of what most women desire.
The Wife of Bath’s Tale is a feminist story, and is both empowering and insulting towards women. The story is empowering because the Queen wants the Knight to find out what women most desire. In reality, all women do not have one thing that they desire and because of that, this story is insulting. As the old lady suggests, we women would like to have control over our husband, but that is a snippet of what we desire. The Wife of Bath’s Tale reminds us of the movie Mean Girls because it is about popularity, money, looks and the power of women. The story also deals with popularity because the knight is too noble for the old lady, money because the knight does not want to marry her; she is poor, and looks because the old lady is not beautiful. The power of women because during the story the queen is in charge of the punishment and tells the knight to find the one thing women most desire. If the knight finds what women most desire, then he will not be beheaded. -- Written by ENGL083-36N Group 3
Monday, October 17, 2011
Remnant Trust: Social Change
Students in Angela Zizak's Sociology class this semester are studying documents from the Remnant Trust Collection that concern social change. Read their thoughts and comments here:
http://socialchangemovements.blogspot.com/
http://socialchangemovements.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Remnant Trust: The Allegory of the Cave
The Allegory of the Cave is a symbolism of how Plato saw the world. The story is about prisoners trapped in this cave for all of their lives. They are chained to a wall, only able to see what is in front of them. In front of them is a wall with a glowing light. The glowing light is from a fire behind them on a ledge. People walk across this ledge with objects in their hands. The fire casts shadows on the wall for the prisoners to see. To the prisoners, this is their reality world. Then a prisoner is freed, he hurries to get out of the cave. When he walks outside he is blinded by the sunlight. He takes in all the beauty and truth that is around him. He runs back to the cave to share his visions with the other prisoners, but of course they don’t believe him and call him crazy.
This is an allegory; it uses symbolism to tell a story where something represents a bigger idea. Basically it makes you think of the point and brainstorm to but the pieces together. In this story, the cave represents the physical world it’s convinced the prisoners that there was no other means of life. The shadows represent what they experienced in the physical world of the cave. The prisoners represent the people of the physical world who were hindered from the real world. The sun represents the real world for which they were withheld from.
The importance to western literature to us was not all the time you fit in (the in crowd) and you weren't accepted. Like today I think they call them cliques, groups of people that hang out or lifestyles, financial statues meet a certain criteria.
When you think about it a lot of movies could be based off of this, but the one that comes to mind is the Matrix. When people enter the matrix they are put into a world that they cannot control. The Matrix is a computer generated world that is operated by one person. People inside only know what others make them see. Like the men in the cave, they could only believe what was in front of them. Also like the men in the cave, the people in the matrix didn't know what to believe when they found out that they were being told lies about their life.
To us the central idea is that humans have limited perspective. Though we may think that what we see, hear, smell, touch, taste, and experience is real, it may not be true because we are chained from perceiving what’s behind us, beyond us, or beyond our five senses. -- Written by ENGL 083-36N Group 2
This is an allegory; it uses symbolism to tell a story where something represents a bigger idea. Basically it makes you think of the point and brainstorm to but the pieces together. In this story, the cave represents the physical world it’s convinced the prisoners that there was no other means of life. The shadows represent what they experienced in the physical world of the cave. The prisoners represent the people of the physical world who were hindered from the real world. The sun represents the real world for which they were withheld from.
The importance to western literature to us was not all the time you fit in (the in crowd) and you weren't accepted. Like today I think they call them cliques, groups of people that hang out or lifestyles, financial statues meet a certain criteria.
When you think about it a lot of movies could be based off of this, but the one that comes to mind is the Matrix. When people enter the matrix they are put into a world that they cannot control. The Matrix is a computer generated world that is operated by one person. People inside only know what others make them see. Like the men in the cave, they could only believe what was in front of them. Also like the men in the cave, the people in the matrix didn't know what to believe when they found out that they were being told lies about their life.
To us the central idea is that humans have limited perspective. Though we may think that what we see, hear, smell, touch, taste, and experience is real, it may not be true because we are chained from perceiving what’s behind us, beyond us, or beyond our five senses. -- Written by ENGL 083-36N Group 2
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