Part I: Key Terms and Short Answer<\/p>\n
Part II: Passage Identification and Explication<\/p>\n
Instructions: <\/p>\n
Type your responses in bold font directly into the document. Be sure to read the questions carefully and answer each part (many contain sub-questions). This is an open book and open note exam, you are encouraged to consult and draw your responses from the literary texts, films, essays, articles, and notes covered in class and section. Please do not include external research or materials (from the internet or other classes, etc.), unless approved by your instructors.<\/p>\n
I. Key Terms and Short Answer<\/p>\n
1. Both Home and the World and Mrs. Dalloway do something rather unconventional with the omniscient narrator of their novels, describe what that is, as well as how it impacts the reading experience of each novel (1-2 paragraphs).<\/p>\n
2. Modernism is largely concerned with exploring the psychological conditions produced out of the rapid social transformations of life and society in the interwar period in Europe (from the late 19th to mid 20th century). As a literary and philosophical movement, it is characterized by a search for new, radical forms of artistic expression. Modernism is also concerned with exploring the psychological conditions of modern life, what Virginia Woolf called the \u201cdark places of psychology.\u201d <\/p>\n
Describe 3 modernist techniques found in Mrs. Dalloway (1-2 paragraphs): <\/p>\n
3. Why is Mrs. Dalloway often referred to as a \u201ccity novel\u201d? (1-2 paragraphs)<\/p>\n
4. Provide a passage from Mrs. Dalloway that exemplifies the novel\u2019s use of modernism (you may focus on character interiority, for example, narrative perspective, or narrative structure, etc). Type up an excerpt of the passage below (with pg. numbers), and briefly describe in one paragraph, how the passage demonstrates either Woolf\u2019s use of modernism or why the novel is characterized as \u201ca city novel.\u201d (one paragraph)<\/p>\n
5. Discuss the significance of the title \u201cThe Home and the World\u201d of Tagore\u2019s novel. What is the significance of this dichotomy (the home vs. the world)? (1 paragraph)<\/p>\n
6. Home and the World is a political allegory that stages a critique of the Swadeshi movement in India in the early phases of anti-colonial struggle. More specifically, the novel critiques the nationalism that the Swadeshi movement is premised upon. a.) What is the Swadeshi movement as represented in Tagore\u2019s novel? B.) Provide a passage from the novel that exemplifies Tagore\u2019s critique of Swadeshi, or a particular aspect of his critique. Explain how the passage demonstrates Tagore\u2019s critique. You may draw on Tagore\u2019s letter to Gandhi for additional support. (1-2 paragraph)<\/p>\n
7. Tagore\u2019s political allegory centers two competing masculinities embodied by the characters of Sandeep and Nikhil, in relationship to Bimila. Describe the characteristics of these two masculinities (Nikhil vs. Sandeep), especially as they are developed in relationship to Bimila. Additionally, provide a passage that demonstrates these characteristics for each character. (1-2 paragraphs)<\/p>\n
8. For both Nikhil and Sandeep in Home and the World, Bimila becomes an important figure for embodying and symbolizing a particular imagining of India (a nation yet to be born). As Benedict Anderson argues, the nation is always an \u201cimagined community.\u201d 1.) What does Benedict Anderson mean when he states that the nation is an imagined community? Provide an example that Anderson gives of one of the ways the nation is imagined 2.) What are some of the attributes or characteristics of womanhood that Sandeep attempts to cultivate (or impose) on Bimila as a symbol of the nation (India)? In other words, what is Bimila\u2019s role in \u201cimagining\u201d the Indian nation into being?<\/p>\n
(1-2 paragraphs)<\/p>\n
II. Passage Identification and Explication (1-2 paragraphs each)<\/p>\n
Instructions: Choose TWO of passages from below (there are 4 total), and provide a 2-3 paragraph explication for each. Your explication should include the following three components:<\/p>\n
1. identify the text, characters, and context of the passage: who is speaking, who are they speaking to, what are they speaking about, what is happening in the novel? What is the significance of this passage in terms of the plot development of the novel (a turning point, an introduction to an idea, a foreshadowing, character development, climax, etc.)<\/p>\n
2. identify and discuss the use of literary technique in the passage (symbolism, narrative perspective, metaphor, imagery, word choice, syntax, etc. Refer to your close reading handout on blackboard) Here is where you are demonstrating your close-reading skills!<\/p>\n
3. Lastly and most importantly, discuss the significance of the passage in relationship to the central ideas and themes of the novel and the course: how does the passage develop a particular philosophical idea, metaphor, motif, allegory, political viewpoint, or thematic preoccupation that we have discussed throughout the course.<\/p>\n
Choose TWO from the following set of passages:<\/p>\n
1. Explication #1 [insert the letter here that corresponds with the passage:__ ]<\/p>\n
2. Explication #2 [insert letter here: ___ ]<\/p>\n
A. \u201cEvery man has a natural right to possess, and therefore greed is natural. It is not in the wisdom of nature that we should be content to be deprived. What my mind covets, my surroundings must supply. This is the only true understanding between our inner and outer nature in this world. Let moral ideals remain merely for those poor anemic creatures of starved desire whose grasp is weak\u2026<\/p>\n
Nature surrenders herself, but only to the robber. For she delights in this forceful desire, this forceful abduction. And so she does not put the garland of her acceptance round the lean, scraggy neck of the ascetic. The music of the wedding march is struck. The time of the wedding I must not let pass. My heart therefore is eager. For, who is the bridegroom? It is I. The bridegroom\u2019s place belongs to him who, torch in hand, can come in time. The bridegroom in Nature\u2019s wedding hall comes unexpected and uninvited.\u201d<\/p>\n
B. \u201cHow\u00a0could we help thinking that it was all supernatural? This moment of our history seemed to have dropped into our hand like a jewel from the\u00a0crown of some drunken god. It had no resemblance to our past; and so we were led to hope that all our wants and\u00a0miseries would disappear by the\u00a0spell of some magic charm, that for us there was no longer any boundary line between the\u00a0possible and\u00a0the\u00a0impossible. Everything seemed to be\u00a0saying to us: \u2018It is coming; it has come!\u201d<\/p>\n
Thus we came\u00a0to cherish the belief that our history needed no steed, but that like heaven\u2019s chariot it would move with its own inherent power \u2013 At least no wages would have\u00a0to be paid to the charioteer; only his\u00a0wine cup would have to be filled again and again. And then in some impossible paradise the\u00a0goal of our hopes would be\u00a0reached.<\/p>\n
My husband was not altogether unmoved, but through all our\u00a0excitement it was the strained sadness in him which deepened and deepened. He seemed to have a\u00a0vision of something beyond the surging present.\u201d <\/p>\n
C. \u201cOne feels even in the midst of the traffic, or waking at night, Clarissa was positive, a particular hush, or solemnity; an indescribable pause; a suspense before Big Ben strikes. There! Out it boomed. First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. Such fools we are, she thought, crossing Victoria Street. For Heaven only knows why one loves it so, how one sees it so, making it up, building it round one, tumbling it, creating it every moment afresh; but the veriest frumps, the most dejected of miseries sitting on doorsteps (drink their downfall) do the same; can’t be dealt with, she felt positive, by Acts of Parliament for that very reason: they love life. In people’s eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment in June.\u201d<\/p>\n
D. \u201cMiss Kilman would do anything for the Russians, starved herself for the Austrians, but in private inflicted positive torture, so insensitive was she, dressed in a green mackintosh coat. Year in year out she wore that coat; she perspired; she was never in the room five minutes without making you feel her superiority, your inferiority; how poor she was; how rich you were; how she lived in a slum without a cushion or a bed or a rug or whatever it might be, all her soul rusted with that grievance sticking in it, her dismissal from school during the War\u2014poor embittered unfortunate creature! For it was not her one hated but the idea of her, which undoubtedly had gathered in to itself a great deal that was not Miss Kilman; had become one of those spectres with which one battles in the night; one of those spectres who stand astride us and suck up half our life-blood, dominators and tyrants; for no doubt with another throw of the dice, had the black been uppermost and not the white, she would have loved Miss Kilman! But not in this world. No. <\/p>\n
It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred, which, especially since her illness, had power to make her feel scraped, hurt in her spine; gave her physical pain, and made all pleasure in beauty, in friendship, in being well, in being loved and making her home delightful rock, quiver, and bend as if indeed there were a monster grubbing at the roots, as if the whole panoply of content were nothing but self love! this hatred! <\/p>\n
Nonsense, nonsense! she cried to herself, pushing through the swing doors of Mulberry’s the florists.\u201d <\/p>\n
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