Various issues for the test W5

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Winter Dreams

Commentary

Story shows how the morals of the Victorian Era had been left behind: women were no longer beings without a will, without rights, without sexuality. (Judy!)

Story comments on the state of the US in the 1920s. A person could be anything (s)he wishes: Dexter > from poor to filty rich. (The American Dream)

Story comments on the contrast between old money and new

Story is cynical about the outcome: Dexter cannot have the thing he dreams 

about.  Judy's attraction has faded > The dream is shattered.

The Waste Land

Commentary

Some claim this is the most important text of the 20th century.

It consists of FRAGMENTS < Modernism

It is written as a 'stream of consciousness' < Modernism

It is about Death (World war I had just ended) < Modernism

It is about feelings of loss, uncertainty, misunderstanding < Modernism

Question 21

The morning comes to consciousness 

Of faint stale smells of beer 

From the sawdust-trampled street 

With all its muddy feet that press 

To early coffee-stands. 

With the other masquerades 

That time resumes, 

One thinks of all the hands 

That are raising dingy shades 

In a thousand furnished rooms.

What is modernist about this fragment?

You can answer in the next slide!

The morning comes to consciousness
Of faint stale smells of beer
From the sawdust-trampled street
ith all its muddy feet that press
o early coffee-stands.
With the other masquerades
That time resumes,
ne thinks of all the hands
That are raising dingy shades
In a thousand furnished rooms.

Question 22

What is this style of writing called and why is it called that?

Harrison Bergeron

Film is in one of my PPTs

Story is a dystopia. (Know the characteristics; cf. reader)

Harrison is the 'lone hero' who stands up to the rules imposed by the authorities 

(cf. Katniss Everdeen [The Hunger Games], Winston Smith [1984] , Thomas [The Maze Runner], etc) 

The lone hero shows the reader what is wrong in the dystopian society (a list in the reader)

Dystopian stories take an element of contemporary society and shows us what might happen if we take that to extremes.