January 16, 2014
Agenda - 1/16/2014
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Collect late work (with pass)…today’s the last day!
(Tomorrow is the last day for presenting your
speech…after school tomorrow it is a zero!)
Discuss/Collect “The Masque of the Red Death”
worksheet
Midterm Study Guide
Orson Welles – “The Shadow”
Gothic Literature – Emulation Project
 The Gothic Spook Hour
○ Groups
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Satire
 Notes
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Read “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”
HOMEWORK: Work on Emulation Project – Due 1/31!
“The Masque of the Red Death”
3. Compare life outside the palace with
the life of the people Prospero brought
inside.
Inside
Wealth
Fantasy
Outside
Poverty
Reality
Life
Death; Destruction
Happiness
Sorrow
Health
Disease/Sickness
Hope
Despair
Going from East to West:
Blue
Purple
Green
Orange
White
Violet
Black
What’s the difference between
“purple” and “violet”?
Purple
Violet
WHAT DOES EACH ROOM
COLOR SYMBOLIZE?
First, think about
the order of the rooms…
Why do they progress
from East to West?
The sun RISES in the EAST…
• Then SETS in the WEST…
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1) BLUE
Birth/Infancy
A baby is completely dependent on
others…
(Sky turns blue in the morning)
2) PURPLE
Blue + Red
Toddler/Childhood
(Bumps & Bruises as you begin school
& leave the protection of home?)
3) GREEN
Adolescence/Puberty – the
child becomes a teenager
(Plants bloom in the spring)
4) ORANGE
Middle age/Adulthood
(Summer turns into autumn)
5) WHITE
Old age/White hair
Purity/peace
(The winter of life)
6) VIOLET
Elderly stage
The twilight of one’s years
(It appears more bluish-white
than purple… As if it’s fading
and approaching the end of
life.)
7) BLACK
Death
“Seven Ages of Man”
~ William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players,
They have their exits and entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier.
Full of strange oaths, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide,
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again towards the childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Orson Welles – “The Shadow”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTEiKuQC5U
Emulation Assignment –
The Gothic Spook Hour
Overview:
 Emulation is used to show that you understand
the convention used in literature and can
manipulate writing for an effect
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Due Friday, January 31
Groups
Group 1
 Jonathan
 Nicole
 Marcus
 Sarah
Group 2
 Hannah
 Renee
 Matthew
 Derek
 Maddie
Group 3
 Carlos
 Vina
 Regina
 Haley
 Shelby
Group 4
 Connor
 Anthony
 Minh
 Jose
 Keila
Gothic Literature –
Emulation Assignment –
The Gothic Spook Hour
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We've read some Gothic stories and looked at
some of the ways it has evolved into the world of
the spooky and spine tingling stories of today. Now
it's your turn to demonstrate what you've learned
about how to scare and spook an audience.
For this assignment, in groups of 4-5, you will be
creating your own radio show. You will write a story
and adapt it for radio, creating a script that you will
turn in, along with your performance (live or via
video/audio recording) of your spooky tale. Make
sure that you include all of the Gothic story
elements that we've been discussing.
Gothic Literature Examples
Use your notes on Gothic literature to
mark for different elements
 Annotate for detail, imagery, setting,
gothic elements of setting in your hard
copy that you turn in.
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Satire
blends humor with criticism for the
purpose of instruction or the
improvement of humanity
 Through humor, expose the folly of
man and bring about change
(improvement)
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The necessary ingredients
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Humor
Criticism, either general criticism of
humanity or human nature or specific
criticism of an individual or group.
Some kind of moral voice: simply
mocking or criticism is not “satire.”
The Satiric Manner
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Irony
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Either good natured criticism or bitterly
cynical denunciation
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Always opposed to pretense, affectation,
and hypocrisy
Some tools of the satirist
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Direct satire
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Indirect Satire
 Understatement/overstatement
 Hyperbole
 Irony
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Parody
Caricature
Exaggeration/Diminutization
Utopianism
Dystopianism
Parody = a work of literature that
mimics another work of literature,
usually as a way of criticizing it.
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Austin Powers
Scary Movie/Epic Movie
Gulliver’s Travels
Don Quixote
Caricature = An exaggerated
portrayal of the weaknesses,
frailties, or humorous aspects of an
individual or group.
Caricatures of the
presidential
candidates by
Saturday Night Live
cast members in ‘03
year actually
changed the way
that the candidates
performed in public.
Exaggeration = The portrayal of something trivial or
unimportant as very important, usually to emphasize its
triviality.
Diminutization = the portrayal of something perceived as
important as something trivial/unimportant to show its
unimportance.
** “Zoolander” and the “fashion world”
** Weird Al’s “Amish Paradise”
** “A Modest Proposal” (Johnathan Swift)
Utopianism = A criticism of the status quo through
comparison with a superior kind of society that
highlights the weaknesses of one’s own.
Dystopianism = A criticism of certain aspects of
society through comparison to an inferior society
that adopts some of these aspects.
- George Orwell’s 1984
- Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World
- Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
* Both Dystopianism and Utopianism use contrast to
make point.
YOLO: Adult Edition
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4bB
SDP6KoM&list=TLI5nNSZvBA041cTtCk
C20OnW89O7GlCK2
Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment (pg. 501)
Allegory and Symbolism
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Remember The Crucible was an
allegory for McCarthyism? “Dr.
Heidegger’s Experiment” is also
considered an allegory… but of what?
“Dr. H’s Exp.” utilizes symbolism.
Certain objects contain greater meaning
than just themselves. Look out for the
symbols and possible meanings!
Symbols
The Mirror: the truth; what people don’t
want to see and what haunts them: past
failures.
 The Youth Water: Desire and Deception.
 The Rose: acceptance of wisdom and
old age. Sort of a symbol for Dr. H
himself; how he’s accepted his hard
earned wisdom and age.
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Four Guests - Symbols
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Mr. Medbourne: Greed
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Colonel Killigrew: Gluttony
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Mr. Gascoigne: Pride/Power
Widow Wycherly: Vanity
 All lost something important: wealth,
health, power, and beauty.
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Dr. Heidegger
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Dr. H is different from all his guests in
that he is so aware of human limitations.
He is haunted by the memory of his
deceased patients: sees this as his
failure.
His guests do not see their past failures;
they are tricked by the liquor and by
their own self-deceptions. They never
learned.
Reason for the Experiment?
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Each of the guests represented a
human error. He wanted to know if they
ever learned from their mistakes.
By them seeking out more of the “youth
water,” by claiming a pilgrimage to
Florida, they prove they have not
learned.
Youth can be a sort of “delirium” and if
given a second chance, people do not
learn.
Why is it Dark?
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Hawthorne is exploring typical human
errors. He concludes that if given a
second chance most people will repeat
their errors and do not learn from them.
The only redeeming character is Dr. H,
who has matured with his older age.
Dr. H = 1 (minority of people)
Guests = 4 (majority of people)
Theme?
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Themes can be tricky to figure out, but
one way to find out is to ask yourself
what the character learned.
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(Dr. H learns that) People will resort to
their old ways if given a second chance.
Only a minority of people learn from
their mistakes.