- Hedvig has shot herself in the garret with her father Hialmar's pistol. She did this after Hialmar rejected her again and stormed off, convinced she did not truly love him.
- When the others discover Hedvig's body, Relling declares she is dead from internal bleeding caused by the gunshot. Hialmar is wracked with grief and guilt for having driven her away.
- Relling later tells Gregers that Hedvig clearly committed suicide. Though Gregers believes Hedvig freed nobility in Hialmar, Relling argues this effect will not last and Hedvig will soon just be a subject for his declamations. Their discussion highlights their differing views of life and ideals
Within the chaos of a war-torn Iraq, a widow tries to live a peaceful life with her young son. Sarah’s life soon changes drastically when her son disappears. Contemplating suicide by day, and seeing strange realms by night, she meets a dark serpent who promises to help her. And so she sets off in search for her son. But who is this mysterious entity? And will she be able to overcome the hazards that lie ahead?
Sarah's journey leads her through the violent and corrupt reality that she lives in. She experiences mystical voyages at night in the dark realms of her own mind, struggling to understand the world around her, and the very nature of her existence. The Shinging Serpent is a thought provoking and heart rendering tale that is bound to enlighten as well as entertain.
Hayley tells Rosa that she overheard elves discussing plans to kill Rosa and Lysander. Hayley warns that they are no longer safe and must leave Flinton immediately. Rosa is distraught at the thought of leaving without Hayley. Hayley offers to help them escape that night by calling in a favor, getting them far away from the town. However, Hayley will remain behind for now due to her obligations in Flinton.
The document introduces the Folie á Deux legacy and the story of Generation 1. It summarizes that Phoenix and Timothy had a loving family together until one night Timothy turned into a werewolf and killed Phoenix in a rage. Their children Sydney, Alicia, Kaidan and India then escaped in a stolen car and Timothy later committed suicide with poison in the garden. The story is passed on to Jess to continue playing as Sydney and the Folie á Deux legacy.
The narrator is walking home on a cold night through their neighborhood. They pass by a group of drunk white people and feel nervous, remembering past incidents of racism and violence. When they see a police officer, they feel anxious, knowing that as a black person they are at higher risk of police brutality. At the store, an employee stares at them in a way that makes them uncomfortable. The narrator experiences intrusive thoughts and memories of racism on their journey, feeling burdened by their race and otherness. They try to relax with food and media when they get home but continue replaying difficult experiences of racism in their mind.
Henderson inherits a large sum of money after his father's death. He is unclean and eccentric. His wife Lily hosts friends when Henderson embarrasses them by introducing himself while covered in mucus. Henderson and Lily argue over tenants, and later Henderson finds their maid dead. A ghostly vision of the maid warns Henderson to change his ways or meet a similar fate. That night, ghostly spirits of Henderson's past, present, and future visit and show him what his life will become if he does not improve himself. Henderson ultimately decides to travel to Africa, where he works to help local tribes and transforms himself into a better person through his experiences.
My respect to a Legend, his Brilliance and his Creative Words.... Rituparna-Shehanaz
This story by Rabindranath Tagore is about a young orphan named Nilkanta who is taken in by the family of Sharat after getting stranded in a storm. Nilkanta grows close to Kiran, Sharat's wife, who shows him kindness as she recovers from illness. However, tensions arise as Nilkanta becomes possessive of Kiran's attention and disrupts the household. When Kiran's brother-in-law Satish visits, Kiran spends more time with him, making Nilkanta bitter and vengeful. In the end, as the family prepares to return home, Nilkanta is left behind, heartbroken over the lost affection of Kiran.
This document appears to be the front matter and first chapter of a fictional novel. It includes a copyright page, dedication, prologue, and beginning of chapter one. The prologue describes a young boy witnessing domestic violence between his parents. His mother tells him to always fight for good and never turn out the light in his heart. In chapter one, the main character Emilia regains consciousness in an unfamiliar place after apparently almost drowning, and senses someone watching her as she wakes up.
The document provides backstory on Kindle, a young girl fascinated by the theater. On opening night, she witnesses the glamorous actresses preparing. However, tensions rise backstage when the drunken clown Darby misses his cue. He accuses and assaults Kindle, pushing her to the ground. Later, Gwen cuts Kindle's hip with a knife, claiming it was an accident with a prop, to cover for Darby missing his cue. Kindle loses consciousness from blood loss as the play continues without her knowledge of the cruelty behind the scenes.
Within the chaos of a war-torn Iraq, a widow tries to live a peaceful life with her young son. Sarah’s life soon changes drastically when her son disappears. Contemplating suicide by day, and seeing strange realms by night, she meets a dark serpent who promises to help her. And so she sets off in search for her son. But who is this mysterious entity? And will she be able to overcome the hazards that lie ahead?
Sarah's journey leads her through the violent and corrupt reality that she lives in. She experiences mystical voyages at night in the dark realms of her own mind, struggling to understand the world around her, and the very nature of her existence. The Shinging Serpent is a thought provoking and heart rendering tale that is bound to enlighten as well as entertain.
Hayley tells Rosa that she overheard elves discussing plans to kill Rosa and Lysander. Hayley warns that they are no longer safe and must leave Flinton immediately. Rosa is distraught at the thought of leaving without Hayley. Hayley offers to help them escape that night by calling in a favor, getting them far away from the town. However, Hayley will remain behind for now due to her obligations in Flinton.
The document introduces the Folie á Deux legacy and the story of Generation 1. It summarizes that Phoenix and Timothy had a loving family together until one night Timothy turned into a werewolf and killed Phoenix in a rage. Their children Sydney, Alicia, Kaidan and India then escaped in a stolen car and Timothy later committed suicide with poison in the garden. The story is passed on to Jess to continue playing as Sydney and the Folie á Deux legacy.
The narrator is walking home on a cold night through their neighborhood. They pass by a group of drunk white people and feel nervous, remembering past incidents of racism and violence. When they see a police officer, they feel anxious, knowing that as a black person they are at higher risk of police brutality. At the store, an employee stares at them in a way that makes them uncomfortable. The narrator experiences intrusive thoughts and memories of racism on their journey, feeling burdened by their race and otherness. They try to relax with food and media when they get home but continue replaying difficult experiences of racism in their mind.
Henderson inherits a large sum of money after his father's death. He is unclean and eccentric. His wife Lily hosts friends when Henderson embarrasses them by introducing himself while covered in mucus. Henderson and Lily argue over tenants, and later Henderson finds their maid dead. A ghostly vision of the maid warns Henderson to change his ways or meet a similar fate. That night, ghostly spirits of Henderson's past, present, and future visit and show him what his life will become if he does not improve himself. Henderson ultimately decides to travel to Africa, where he works to help local tribes and transforms himself into a better person through his experiences.
My respect to a Legend, his Brilliance and his Creative Words.... Rituparna-Shehanaz
This story by Rabindranath Tagore is about a young orphan named Nilkanta who is taken in by the family of Sharat after getting stranded in a storm. Nilkanta grows close to Kiran, Sharat's wife, who shows him kindness as she recovers from illness. However, tensions arise as Nilkanta becomes possessive of Kiran's attention and disrupts the household. When Kiran's brother-in-law Satish visits, Kiran spends more time with him, making Nilkanta bitter and vengeful. In the end, as the family prepares to return home, Nilkanta is left behind, heartbroken over the lost affection of Kiran.
This document appears to be the front matter and first chapter of a fictional novel. It includes a copyright page, dedication, prologue, and beginning of chapter one. The prologue describes a young boy witnessing domestic violence between his parents. His mother tells him to always fight for good and never turn out the light in his heart. In chapter one, the main character Emilia regains consciousness in an unfamiliar place after apparently almost drowning, and senses someone watching her as she wakes up.
The document provides backstory on Kindle, a young girl fascinated by the theater. On opening night, she witnesses the glamorous actresses preparing. However, tensions rise backstage when the drunken clown Darby misses his cue. He accuses and assaults Kindle, pushing her to the ground. Later, Gwen cuts Kindle's hip with a knife, claiming it was an accident with a prop, to cover for Darby missing his cue. Kindle loses consciousness from blood loss as the play continues without her knowledge of the cruelty behind the scenes.
The vampire-of-the-opera-by-morgan-de-guerreJurekAnton
Kay Leonis auditioned for the Bakirville Opera and is now anxiously awaiting their decision. She has a long history with and deep admiration for the Opera, especially Marcus Orlov, who has remained unchanged for hundreds of years. During her audition, she sang folk songs, arias, and the national anthem, transporting herself and possibly Marcus. She is now on the verge of a panic attack as she waits for the committee's response.
This document appears to be the beginning of a novel. It introduces several main characters who are attending a meeting led by Amon, an ancient being, at a new hotel he has built. Amon explains that the hotel will be a safe place for the characters, who are various supernatural creatures, to freely "hunt" or feed on humans. He demonstrates that the hotel staff harbor hatred for other humans who have wronged them. The characters agree to join Amon's court and reside at the hotel. The story then shifts to introduce London, a fashion influencer reminiscing about her rise to success in that industry and a falling out with a former friend.
1) Janie is having an affair with Philippe at the Holiday Inn to rebel against her restrictive marriage to Walter. She feels uneasy like she is being watched.
2) At the hotel, the housekeepers Madison and Jen get into an argument where Jen throws a towel at Madison. The hotel manager Malcolm tries to defuse the situation.
3) Janie is disturbed by Walter's strange behavior over the past month and his parting words of "goodbye" rather than "see you later" that morning. She decides this will be her last day with Philippe.
- The narrator, Keika, is a god who created a garden and apprentice named Béor.
- Keika decides to leave the garden in Béor's care and become human to found the kingdom of Clitheroe. Keika creates dozens of humans and they begin settling the land.
- However, before Keika can build shelter, Béor appears and teases her about abandoning godhood. In retaliation, Keika fully becomes human but realizes too late she no longer has powers and is left without shelter in the snow.
This story also focuses on soldiers and the war they must now face at home, and the consequences of their sacrifice on their own lives.
As the year runs out, we remember our soldiers who continue to fight gallantly for the safety of this country, and their wives, who ensure they do not lose the war at home.
1) Hank asks Brad to pick him up from the courthouse where he was waiting in the rain. Hank suspects Brad has feelings for his wife Nell.
2) During the drive back to the truck stop, Hank confronts and accuses Brad, ultimately firing him and telling him to leave that night.
3) At the truck stop, Brad hastily packs his things. Lulu Mae is worried when Hank tells her he fired Brad, as Brad has evidence that could implicate her in murder. She rushes to Brad's room but finds he has already left.
Nellie finds herself in danger as she explores the tomb of the evil warlord Dong Huo. She encounters traps that injure her but is able to disarm them. With help from a little girl, Nellie recovers and continues on. She figures out how to use crescent keystones to disarm traps and finally reaches the treasure room. The next day, Nellie receives a message that to complete the prophecy, she must travel to Champs Les Sims, France.
Edan hears noises coming from an upstairs bedroom in his family's home. He discovers his mother Olivia engaged in a sexual encounter with Christopher, a young man hired to help with projects on the estate. This is the first time Olivia has felt alive and attracted to a man, providing an escape from her abusive marriage to Edan's father Trevor. Edan listens at the bedroom door, discovering his mother's secret affair.
Holly is grieving the loss of her husband Gerry, who recently passed away from a brain tumor at the age of 30. They had a loving marriage and planned to spend their lives together. Holly is struggling with loneliness and depression since Gerry's death. Her mother calls to check on her and mentions an envelope addressed to Holly labeled "The List" that has been waiting for her at her parents' house for weeks. Holly is curious but overwhelmed by grief. The flashback scenes describe Holly and Gerry's loving relationship and sense of humor, including an ongoing joke Gerry had about leaving Holly a list of instructions if anything happened to him.
The Quest for Peace: Dark Moon Saga 2 Chapter 2.25Lauren Patton
Aiden returns to Hidden City seeking help from Euphoria to stop his daughter Callisto's plan. He meets Shadow instead, who toys with him but eventually agrees to help. Meanwhile, Reias uses a Bone Phone to resurrect Helen Reed, who died at the hands of rogue gods. Helen reconnects with her family upon returning home but Goderic insists on helping Reias seek vengeance against the gods responsible for Helen's death.
The document contains two short stories from Ireland about Halloween adventures gone wrong. In the first story, a girl named Carrie scares her friend Cody on Halloween but then encounters the same creature from her dreams in real life. In the second story, five children go trick-or-treating but one dares another to egg and toilet paper the house of a creepy old woman they met earlier. When they return to her house, one of the girls expresses hesitation about their plan. The stories build an ominous atmosphere and hint at supernatural occurrences or consequences for the children's actions.
Allie goes to visit her aunt Alice who tells her stories about a magical place called Wonderland. Allie does not believe the stories are true. After an argument with her aunt, Allie discovers a secret beach and falls through a tree stump into Wonderland. There she meets the Cheshire Cat and other characters from her aunt's stories. With their help, Allie plays a baseball game against the Queen of Clubs and escapes back through a mysterious door to her aunt, believing the Wonderland stories are real after all.
Chandler expresses concern for his friend Daniel, who is still grieving the loss of his girlfriend Cherry. Daniel interrupts and says he does not want to discuss Cherry, as she was truly "The One" for him and he does not think Chandler understands what it is like to be totally in love with someone. Daniel says Cherry is constantly on his mind and he does not know how to move on from losing someone so special to him.
Kendrick is an agent who was hired by an elf named Aemorniel to find a half-alien blonde woman with telekinetic abilities named Hero. He goes undercover and begins dating different women to find the target. When he meets Hero, he falls in love with her but keeps his job a secret. After insisting Hero is not the target, Kendrick quits his job but worries Aemorniel will still go after Hero. He decides to confess everything to Hero but she is devastated by the betrayal and refuses to ever see him again.
The document discusses the ongoing conflict between Atalanta and her brother Icarus over their family's legacy. Icarus has fallen under the influence of Chaos and wants to claim the legacy for himself, seeing Atalanta as too weak. Meanwhile, Xylen's plans to take over the world using blood sacrifices from various pantheons is progressing, with Loki assisting him by providing offerings from the Norse gods. Atalanta finds comfort in her relationship with Iolaus, who agrees to help her in her family's mission to restore the God of Peace.
- The chief Labong'o has returned to the village without news of when it will rain, worrying the villagers.
- The medicine man Ndithi has a vision that the ancestor Podho demands the sacrifice of Oganda, Labong'o's beautiful daughter, to the lake monster in order to make it rain.
- Labong'o is devastated by this prophecy and dreads telling Oganda and the villagers. He must decide whether to sacrifice Oganda to save the tribe or refuse and risk the tribe's destruction.
- Keika unveils a new town square in Clitheroe to gather the growing community, which now has 4 households. However, the celebration is interrupted by the arrival of the god Meslar and Keika's godling Béor.
- Meslar asks Keika to allow refugees from his dying world to settle in Clitheroe, but Keika declines as she fears it would endanger her own people. Meslar threatens retaliation before departing.
- Upset by the suffering of Meslar's people but seeing no alternative, Keika finds comfort in her husband Ryan's embrace, grieving for the death of Meslar's world.
Arithmetic involves four basic operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Each operation uses a specific sign and has a result shown after an equals sign. The four operations are: addition uses the plus sign and involves adding one number to another; subtraction uses the minus sign and involves subtracting one number from another; multiplication uses the times sign and involves multiplying one number by another; division uses the divided by or into sign and involves dividing one number by another.
This document discusses two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes. It states that a line has one dimension of length, while a square has two dimensions of length and height. Some shapes, such as cubes, pyramids, cylinders, cones and spheres, have three dimensions of length, width and height. Two-dimensional shapes have area, while three-dimensional shapes have volume. It also provides examples of three-dimensional shapes that are based on squares, rectangles, triangles or circles.
The vampire-of-the-opera-by-morgan-de-guerreJurekAnton
Kay Leonis auditioned for the Bakirville Opera and is now anxiously awaiting their decision. She has a long history with and deep admiration for the Opera, especially Marcus Orlov, who has remained unchanged for hundreds of years. During her audition, she sang folk songs, arias, and the national anthem, transporting herself and possibly Marcus. She is now on the verge of a panic attack as she waits for the committee's response.
This document appears to be the beginning of a novel. It introduces several main characters who are attending a meeting led by Amon, an ancient being, at a new hotel he has built. Amon explains that the hotel will be a safe place for the characters, who are various supernatural creatures, to freely "hunt" or feed on humans. He demonstrates that the hotel staff harbor hatred for other humans who have wronged them. The characters agree to join Amon's court and reside at the hotel. The story then shifts to introduce London, a fashion influencer reminiscing about her rise to success in that industry and a falling out with a former friend.
1) Janie is having an affair with Philippe at the Holiday Inn to rebel against her restrictive marriage to Walter. She feels uneasy like she is being watched.
2) At the hotel, the housekeepers Madison and Jen get into an argument where Jen throws a towel at Madison. The hotel manager Malcolm tries to defuse the situation.
3) Janie is disturbed by Walter's strange behavior over the past month and his parting words of "goodbye" rather than "see you later" that morning. She decides this will be her last day with Philippe.
- The narrator, Keika, is a god who created a garden and apprentice named Béor.
- Keika decides to leave the garden in Béor's care and become human to found the kingdom of Clitheroe. Keika creates dozens of humans and they begin settling the land.
- However, before Keika can build shelter, Béor appears and teases her about abandoning godhood. In retaliation, Keika fully becomes human but realizes too late she no longer has powers and is left without shelter in the snow.
This story also focuses on soldiers and the war they must now face at home, and the consequences of their sacrifice on their own lives.
As the year runs out, we remember our soldiers who continue to fight gallantly for the safety of this country, and their wives, who ensure they do not lose the war at home.
1) Hank asks Brad to pick him up from the courthouse where he was waiting in the rain. Hank suspects Brad has feelings for his wife Nell.
2) During the drive back to the truck stop, Hank confronts and accuses Brad, ultimately firing him and telling him to leave that night.
3) At the truck stop, Brad hastily packs his things. Lulu Mae is worried when Hank tells her he fired Brad, as Brad has evidence that could implicate her in murder. She rushes to Brad's room but finds he has already left.
Nellie finds herself in danger as she explores the tomb of the evil warlord Dong Huo. She encounters traps that injure her but is able to disarm them. With help from a little girl, Nellie recovers and continues on. She figures out how to use crescent keystones to disarm traps and finally reaches the treasure room. The next day, Nellie receives a message that to complete the prophecy, she must travel to Champs Les Sims, France.
Edan hears noises coming from an upstairs bedroom in his family's home. He discovers his mother Olivia engaged in a sexual encounter with Christopher, a young man hired to help with projects on the estate. This is the first time Olivia has felt alive and attracted to a man, providing an escape from her abusive marriage to Edan's father Trevor. Edan listens at the bedroom door, discovering his mother's secret affair.
Holly is grieving the loss of her husband Gerry, who recently passed away from a brain tumor at the age of 30. They had a loving marriage and planned to spend their lives together. Holly is struggling with loneliness and depression since Gerry's death. Her mother calls to check on her and mentions an envelope addressed to Holly labeled "The List" that has been waiting for her at her parents' house for weeks. Holly is curious but overwhelmed by grief. The flashback scenes describe Holly and Gerry's loving relationship and sense of humor, including an ongoing joke Gerry had about leaving Holly a list of instructions if anything happened to him.
The Quest for Peace: Dark Moon Saga 2 Chapter 2.25Lauren Patton
Aiden returns to Hidden City seeking help from Euphoria to stop his daughter Callisto's plan. He meets Shadow instead, who toys with him but eventually agrees to help. Meanwhile, Reias uses a Bone Phone to resurrect Helen Reed, who died at the hands of rogue gods. Helen reconnects with her family upon returning home but Goderic insists on helping Reias seek vengeance against the gods responsible for Helen's death.
The document contains two short stories from Ireland about Halloween adventures gone wrong. In the first story, a girl named Carrie scares her friend Cody on Halloween but then encounters the same creature from her dreams in real life. In the second story, five children go trick-or-treating but one dares another to egg and toilet paper the house of a creepy old woman they met earlier. When they return to her house, one of the girls expresses hesitation about their plan. The stories build an ominous atmosphere and hint at supernatural occurrences or consequences for the children's actions.
Allie goes to visit her aunt Alice who tells her stories about a magical place called Wonderland. Allie does not believe the stories are true. After an argument with her aunt, Allie discovers a secret beach and falls through a tree stump into Wonderland. There she meets the Cheshire Cat and other characters from her aunt's stories. With their help, Allie plays a baseball game against the Queen of Clubs and escapes back through a mysterious door to her aunt, believing the Wonderland stories are real after all.
Chandler expresses concern for his friend Daniel, who is still grieving the loss of his girlfriend Cherry. Daniel interrupts and says he does not want to discuss Cherry, as she was truly "The One" for him and he does not think Chandler understands what it is like to be totally in love with someone. Daniel says Cherry is constantly on his mind and he does not know how to move on from losing someone so special to him.
Kendrick is an agent who was hired by an elf named Aemorniel to find a half-alien blonde woman with telekinetic abilities named Hero. He goes undercover and begins dating different women to find the target. When he meets Hero, he falls in love with her but keeps his job a secret. After insisting Hero is not the target, Kendrick quits his job but worries Aemorniel will still go after Hero. He decides to confess everything to Hero but she is devastated by the betrayal and refuses to ever see him again.
The document discusses the ongoing conflict between Atalanta and her brother Icarus over their family's legacy. Icarus has fallen under the influence of Chaos and wants to claim the legacy for himself, seeing Atalanta as too weak. Meanwhile, Xylen's plans to take over the world using blood sacrifices from various pantheons is progressing, with Loki assisting him by providing offerings from the Norse gods. Atalanta finds comfort in her relationship with Iolaus, who agrees to help her in her family's mission to restore the God of Peace.
- The chief Labong'o has returned to the village without news of when it will rain, worrying the villagers.
- The medicine man Ndithi has a vision that the ancestor Podho demands the sacrifice of Oganda, Labong'o's beautiful daughter, to the lake monster in order to make it rain.
- Labong'o is devastated by this prophecy and dreads telling Oganda and the villagers. He must decide whether to sacrifice Oganda to save the tribe or refuse and risk the tribe's destruction.
- Keika unveils a new town square in Clitheroe to gather the growing community, which now has 4 households. However, the celebration is interrupted by the arrival of the god Meslar and Keika's godling Béor.
- Meslar asks Keika to allow refugees from his dying world to settle in Clitheroe, but Keika declines as she fears it would endanger her own people. Meslar threatens retaliation before departing.
- Upset by the suffering of Meslar's people but seeing no alternative, Keika finds comfort in her husband Ryan's embrace, grieving for the death of Meslar's world.
Arithmetic involves four basic operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Each operation uses a specific sign and has a result shown after an equals sign. The four operations are: addition uses the plus sign and involves adding one number to another; subtraction uses the minus sign and involves subtracting one number from another; multiplication uses the times sign and involves multiplying one number by another; division uses the divided by or into sign and involves dividing one number by another.
This document discusses two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes. It states that a line has one dimension of length, while a square has two dimensions of length and height. Some shapes, such as cubes, pyramids, cylinders, cones and spheres, have three dimensions of length, width and height. Two-dimensional shapes have area, while three-dimensional shapes have volume. It also provides examples of three-dimensional shapes that are based on squares, rectangles, triangles or circles.
This document discusses various theoretical approaches to literature. It begins by defining literary theory and criticism, noting that literary theory analyzes philosophical and methodological premises of criticism, while criticism focuses on analyzing, interpreting and evaluating primary literary texts.
It then outlines four basic approaches to literature: text-oriented, author-oriented, reader-oriented, and context-oriented. Text-oriented approaches examine the material aspects of texts, including language analysis. Author-oriented approaches emphasize connections between artistic works and their creator's biography. Context-oriented approaches consider the historical and cultural context surrounding literary works.
The document provides examples of methods within each approach, such as formalism and structuralism for text-oriented, and biographical criticism for
This document defines and describes various terms related to fiction genres, including the epic, romance, and novel. It discusses the epic as the oldest form of prose fiction dating back to texts like Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. It notes that while epics are written in verse, they are distinguished from other poetry by their length, narrative structure, and plot patterns. The document then defines the romance genre and how it emerged in classical and medieval times, often using verse forms. It compares the romance to the epic, noting the romance focuses the action toward a particular goal and depicts characters in more detail. Overall, the document provides background information on the epic and romance as precursors to the modern novel form.
The document provides an overview of new historicist approaches to literary studies. It lists the objectives of understanding new historicism, including explaining its distinctive features, importance, main critics, ideas, concepts, and comparing aspects of new historicism. It defines key terms like hegemony, ideology, power, and textuality. The document also discusses analyzing samples using new historicist approaches and representative readings. Main ideas discussed include history, new historicism, cultural poetics, and cultural materialism.
The document discusses psychoanalytic literary criticism. It explains that psychoanalytic criticism sees literature as expressing unconscious desires through symbols and imagery, similar to dreams. Freud believed literature could be interpreted like dreams to understand unconscious meanings. Later critics like Jacques Lacan developed structuralist psychoanalytic theories based on how language and signifiers shape human desire and identity. The document provides examples of how psychoanalytic criticism might analyze works by interpreting symbols and themes related to psychoanalytic concepts like the Oedipus complex. It aims to teach students about key figures, ideas, terms, and methods in the psychoanalytic approach to literary criticism.
This document provides an overview of post-structuralism and deconstruction. It discusses key thinkers like Derrida, Foucault, and Kristeva. Some main ideas are that post-structuralism challenged structuralism's focus on structure and meaning, and emphasized contingency, difference, and how identities are shaped through their differences from others. Deconstruction, associated with Derrida, critiques how metaphysical philosophy assumes ideas exist prior to signs. A key concept is "differance", meaning the simultaneous process of temporal deferral and spatial difference that shapes all identities. The document provides sample analyses of how differance undermines concepts like nature/culture and the relation of ideas to signs. It lists
The document outlines key concepts from reader-oriented and rhetorical approaches to literary criticism including phenomenology, reception theory, and reader response theory. It discusses important critics such as J.L. Austin, Kenneth Burke, Wolfgang Iser, Stanley Fish, and Louise Rosenblatt. Key terms covered are performative utterances, stylistics, hermeneutics, horizon of expectations, the implied reader, and transactional reading. Sample analyses of works using these approaches are also provided.
Structuralism and narratology are literary theories that analyze elements in texts as parts of an interconnected system. Structuralism examines how language and culture function as systems of signs. Key figures include Ferdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes, and Claude Levi-Strauss. Narratology studies narrative structures and elements like plot progression. Vladimir Propp and Tzvetan Todorov contributed influential works. The document provides definitions for structuralist concepts like the sign, semiotics, and episteme. It presents sample analyses using the theories and discusses influential texts in structuralism and narratology.
The document provides an overview of formalist literary criticism. It discusses the emergence of formalism in early 20th century thought as a reaction against examining literature only through historical context or author biography. It outlines the key ideas and critics of both Russian Formalism and New Criticism, such as their focus on examining the distinctive features of literary language rather than using it practically. Some key concepts discussed include defamiliarization, the intentional and affective fallacies, and close reading. Examples are provided of applying formalist techniques to analyze works like The Scarlet Letter and Don Quixote.
This course provides an overview of modern literary theories and methodologies. It will familiarize students with major questions and debates in literary studies from the 19th century onward. Students will gain understanding of theoretical paradigms like New Criticism, structuralism, reader-response theory, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, historicisms, feminism, and post-colonial studies. They will learn to analyze literature through these theoretical lenses and apply concepts in close readings. The course aims to help students appreciate the relevance of theory to literary analysis and discussion.
This document discusses literary criticism and theory. It covers Modernism and Postmodernism as literary periods. It also discusses the contributions of Henry James and Mikhail Bakhtin to literary criticism. For Henry James, it summarizes his emphasis on realism in fiction and his theory of the novel presented in "The Art of Fiction." For Bakhtin, it outlines his concepts of dialogism, heteroglossia, polyphony, and carnivalism and how they apply to the novel form. The document concludes by posing questions for students about these topics.
This document discusses literary criticism in the late 19th century. It provides background on the Victorian era and the rise of scientism. It then discusses the literary movements of Realism and Naturalism. The document focuses on two important critics from this period - Hippolyte Taine and Matthew Arnold. For Taine, it summarizes his environmental elements of race, milieu, moment, and dominant faculty. For Arnold, it discusses his views on the function of criticism and establishing criteria for judging literature. The document concludes with discussion questions related to these topics.
This document provides an overview of 19th century literary criticism focusing on Romanticism. It discusses the shift from 18th to 19th century views, highlighting increased emphasis on intuition over reason. Romanticism is introduced as celebrating spontaneity, imagination, and nature. William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley are then summarized. For Wordsworth, poetry derives from powerful feelings recollected, and focuses on common life in everyday language. He redefines the poet's role. Shelley embraces Plato's ideals and sees poetry as accessing spiritual truth through imagination, with poets guiding readers to transcendental realities.
This document discusses literary criticism in the 17th-18th centuries by three major critics: John Dryden, Joseph Addison, and Alexander Pope. It provides background on Neoclassicism and its emphasis on reason, order, and imitation of classical works.
For John Dryden, it summarizes his importance as a poet and critic, and his contributions through works like An Essay of Dramatic Poesy which discussed imitation, the three unities, and other literary elements.
For Joseph Addison, it notes his focus on enlightening common readers and emphasizing the "greatness of literature." He viewed ancient critics as superior and aimed to temper wit with morality.
For Alexander Pope, it
This document discusses three medieval and Renaissance literary critics - Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Sir Philip Sidney. It summarizes their importance in literary criticism and theory, their key ideas about language, interpretation, myth, defending poetry, and their influence on later critical practice. The document provides context and objectives for studying these three critics, and poses questions to help understand their contributions and concepts.
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This manual will guide you through basic skills and tasks to help you get started with various aspects of Magic. Each section is designed to be easy to follow, with step-by-step instructions.
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A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma teaching of Kamma-Vipaka (Intentional Actions-Ripening Effects).
A Presentation for developing morality, concentration and wisdom and to spur us to practice the Dhamma diligently.
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Jude gives us hope at the end of a dark letter. In a dark world like today, we need the light of Christ to shine brighter and brighter. Jude shows us where to fix our focus so we can be filled with God's goodness and glory. Join us to explore this incredible passage.
Vertical Church Kyiv Report 2022-2023: Church at war
Act v
1. Act V
• Cold, grey morning light fills the studio; a snowstorm roars outside.
• Gina is doing housework when Hedvig rushes through the door. She is certain
Hialmar is at Relling's.
• Old Ekdal enters in a dressing gown, and the women tell him Hialmar has gone out.
• Gregers appears. He is dismayed that Hialmar is downstairs; he should be collecting
his thoughts in solitude.
• Relling enters and reports that Hialmar is snoring on his sofa. Gina asks Hedvig to
help her with the housecleaning.
• Gregers asks Relling how he explains the "spiritual tumult" at work in Hialmar.
Gregers [turning to RELLING.] What is your explanation of the spiritual tumult that is
now going on in Hialmar Ekdal?
Relling. Devil a bit of a spiritual tumult have I noticed in him.
Gregers. What! Not at such a crisis, when his whole life has been placed on a new
foundation — ? How can you think that such an individuality as Hialmar's — ?
• Relling sees none; Gregers is mistaken is idealizing him as some great man.
• Gregers counters that the aunts who raised him, the "soul mothers" Relling dubs
high-flown hysterics, never forgot the claim of the ideal.
• Relling argues that they are part of Hialmar's illness: in his own circle, he has always
been looked on as a "shining light." His handsomeness, "superficially emotional
temperament," "sympathetic voice," and talent for declaiming the verses and
thoughts of others have always made him appear the "great light of the future."
Relling. Well, so be it. But then, when our dear, sweet Hialmar went to college, he at once
passed for the great light of the future amongst his comrades too. He was handsome, the
rascal — red and white — a shop-girl's dream of manly beauty; and with his superficially
emotional temperament, and his sympathetic voice, and his talent for declaiming other
people's verses and other people's thoughts —
Gregers [indignantly.] Is it Hialmar Ekdal you are talking about in this strain?
Relling. Yes, with your permission; I am simply giving you an inside view of the idol you
are grovelling before.
• Gregers hardly thinks himself as "stone blind" as Relling believes.
• Relling disagrees and says that Gregers is sick as well, suffering from an "integrity
fever" and a "delirium of hero-worship."
• Gregers asks what Relling has prescribed as Hialmar's cure.
2. • Relling has given him the usual one: the Livslognen or "life-illusion." He will not
reveal Hialmar's particular inoculation but offers Molvik's as an example.
Relling. Well, you see, I'm supposed to be a sort of a doctor — save the mark! I can't but
give a hand to the poor sick folk who live under the same roof with me.
Gregers. Oh, indeed! Hialmar Ekdal is sick too, is he!
Relling. Most people are, worse luck.
Gregers. And what remedy are you applying in Hialmar's case?
Relling. My usual one. I am cultivating the life-illusion* in him.
• Relling has told Molvik he is demonic to save him from self-contempt.
• Similarly Ekdal has found his own illusion with his fantasies of hunting in the garret.
• Gregers sighs in pity; Ekdal has narrowed the ideals of his youth.
• Relling retorts that he should use a native word, lies, rather than the foreign one,
"ideals." The two are as closely related as typhus and putrid fever.
• Gregers pledges to rescue Hialmar from Relling's clutches.
Gregers. Dr. Relling, I shall not give up the struggle until I have rescued Hialmar from
your clutches!
Relling. So much the worse for him. Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob
him of his happiness at the same stroke.
• Relling returns to his flat, and Hedvig re-appears. When Gregers asks if she has yet
to kill the duck, Hedvig replies that when she woke this morning, the plan no longer
seemed worthwhile. Gregers laments that if only her eyes had been opened to the
ideal, and if only she possessed the spirit of sacrifice.
• Hedvig wanders the room. Ekdal emerges from the garret. She asks him how one
goes about shooting wild ducks. He explains and shuffles off to his room.
• Hedvig reaches for the pistol on the bookshelf when Gina enters. She hastily lays it
down, unobserved. Gina sends her into the kitchen to check on Hialmar's breakfast.
• The door opens hesitantly and an unkempt Hialmar enters. He declares tonelessly
that he will depart shortly.
• Hedvig sees and runs to him in joy; Hialmar rejects her anew. Hedwig retires without
a word.
• Hialmar begins rummaging for his technical magazines; he requires them for the
invention.
• Gina asks if he is still leaving. Hialmar cannot live among traitors and he plans to
take Ekdal with him as well.
• Hialmar asks hesitantly if anyone has found his hat on the stairs; apparently he lost it
the night before.
3. • Gina chastises him and enters the kitchen to fetch a breakfast tray for him.
• While she is out, Hialmar hastily examines the torn letter from yesterday. He refuses
food upon her return.
• When Hedvig enters the studio again, he rejects her anew and storms into the next
room and Gina follows.
Hialmar [With his hand upon the door-handle, says to GINA:] In these, the last
moments I spend in my former home, I wish to be spared from interlopers — —
[Goes into the room.]
Hedvig [with a bound towards her mother, asks softly, trembling.] Does that mean me?
• Terrified, Hedvig takes the pistol from the shelf and creeps into the garret.
• Hialmar and Gina argue over packing. Utterly exhausted, Hialmar slumps onto the
sofa and unthinkingly begins to eat his breakfast.
• In face of the endless preparations involved in the prospective move, Gina suggests
that he stay in the sitting room for a few days. Hialmar ultimately agrees.
• He also glues Werle's letter back together. After all, it is for his father, and not he, to
decline Werle's offer.
• Gregers enters and Hialmar quickly rises. Gregers attempts to strengthen Hialmar's
resolve to adhere to the ideal. Hialmar has his invention before him and reveals that
the invention was Relling's idea.
• It brought him happiness only in inspiring Hedvig's faith. Now he is convinced Hedvig
has been false with him. She has never truly loved him and would readily run off with
the Werles if promised their fortune. Hedvig "[blots] the sunlight" from his life.
Hialmar. Oh, I have been so truly happy over it! Not so much for the sake of the
invention itself, as because Hedvig believed in it — believed in it with a child's whole
eagerness of faith. — At least, I have been fool enough to go and imagine that she believed
in it.
• Suddenly a shot rings out from the garret. Gregers is triumphant: he announces that
Hedvig has gotten her grandfather to sacrifice her precious duck to prove her love for
her father.
Hialmar. Oh, if she would only come home quickly, so that I can tell her — Everything
will come right now, Gregers; now I believe we can begin life afresh.
• Suddenly Ekdal appears in full uniform. The group realizes that he has not shot the
duck—it would appear Hedvig has done it herself.
• Hialmar tears open the garret door. The group follows, only to discover Hedwig lying
on the floor. The men lay her on the couch as Gina calls for Relling.
• Ekdal murmurs quietly that the woods have avenged themselves.
Ekdal. The woods avenge themselves. But I'm not afraid, all the same.
4. • Upon examining her, Relling declares the child dead; the bullet has pierced her chest
and caused an internal hemorrhage. "In the depths of the sea" murmurs Gregers.
• Hialmar screams remorsefully that he hunted her from him like an animal.
Hialmar. And I! I hunted her from me like an animal! And she crept terrified into the
garret and died for love of me! [Sobbing.] I can never atone to her! I can never tell her — !
[Clenches his hands and cries, upwards.] O thou above — ! If thou be indeed! Why hast
thou done this thing to me?
• Gina asks that they take her to her room. She and Hialmar must help each other
mourn. Now Hedvig belongs to both of them.
• Once the members of the household have left, Relling informs Gregers that Hedvig
certainly killed herself.
• Gregers consoles himself that Hedvig did not die in vain but set free "what is noble"
in her father.
• Relling retorts that this nobility will not last—within a year Hedvig will be but a "pretty
theme for declamation." Moreover Gregers has little reason to concern himself with
the Ekdals further: people do fine if others do not pester them with talk of ideals.
Gregers. Hedvig has not died in vain. Did you not see how sorrow set free what is noble in
him?
Relling. Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you
suppose this nobility will last in him?
Gregers. Why should it not endure and increase throughout his life?
Relling. Before a year is over, little Hedvig will be nothing to him but a pretty theme for
declamation.
• If Relling is right, Gregers declares, life is not worth living. Walking off, he announces
that he is glad of his destiny—to be the thirteenth at the table. "The devil it is"
answers Relling.