This lesson contains 14 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.
Items in this lesson
Get out your notebook/laptop
Put away your phone
Put your bag on the floor
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We're done with all the new literature, so let's recap
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Your questions about the Romantic literature.
Slide 3 - Open question
Your questions about the Victorian literature.
Slide 4 - Open question
Pride and Prejudice
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One of the principal themes of this novel is that ‘appearances can be deceptive’. Give 2 examples (characters) that explain what this means.
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One of the principal themes of this novel is that ‘appearances can be deceptive’. Give 2 examples (characters) that explain what this means.
Wickham, Darcy and perhaps Collins and Lady Catherine de Bourgh are the most evident: Wickham proves to be an unscrupulous profiteer and gossip, while Darcy is not really an oaf, but rather a man with his heart in the right place.
While Collins pretends to be noble and unselfish, he is actually a money grubber (excerpt 1).
Lady de Bourgh purports to be well-versed in good manners and etiquette, but sweeps these swiftly aside if things do not go her way.
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Compare the different ways in which Elizabeth replies to the proposals by Collins and Darcy.
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Compare the different ways in which Elizabeth replies to the proposals by Collins and Darcy.
Elizabeth does not take Collins seriously and swats him away like a bothersome fly, while she sets fire to Darcy’s words in a rage. She is deeply insulted and humiliated.
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Frankenstein
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Discussion
How are Robert Walton and Victor Frankenstein similar?
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Discussion
Do you think Victor Frankstein and Robert Walton are reliable narrators?
Slide 12 - Slide
Do you think it is wise of Victor to agree to making a female creature?
