Mariah’s CPB: “Hey Mariah, After looking through your commonplace entries over the week I have noticed a pattern in what you choose to include and how you include it. You always take the time to find images to go along with the commonplace entry which makes it more interesting and interactive in my opinion. I also noticed how you seem to focus more on the criticism of the novel and you don’t just find things from the back of the…
For this week, I looked at Eve, Mariah and Caitlyn’s common place book entries. They all focused on different aspects of the novel, but one thing that I found in common between their entries was a depiction of the character of Dracula. What I found most interesting was the variety within the depictions. Mariah and Caitlyn depicted the character of Dracula as a handsome, attractive man who would be able to seduce any woman which agrees with the description and…
This week I looked at Eve, Mariah and Caitlyn’s commonplace book entries regarding Dracula. It was interesting to see what they chose to focus on within the contemporary criticism for the novel. Eve and Caitlyn chose to look at the sexuality aspect of the novel and Mariah focused mainly on the setting of the novel and the use of the characters to depict Victorian beliefs. Despite the difference in appearance Mariah’s entry could be tied to the other two entries…
Three sources of superstition in Transylvania: 1. “First there is what may be called the indigenous superstition of the country, the scenery of which is peculiarly adapted to serve as background to all sorts of supernatural beings and monsters” 2. “Secondly, there is imported superstition! that is to say, the old German customs and beliefs brought hither seven hundred years ago by the Saxon colonists from their native lands, and like many other things, preserved here in greater perfection than…
It was very interesting and enlightening looking at other people’s common place book entries for this week. Looking at them has brought new perspectives of the novel and the appendices into light and has been very interesting to think of. The three common place book entries I looked at this week had different aspects and perspectives that they chose to highlight, but they all worked together to enhance my reading of the novel. Caitlyn chose to look at the perspective…
“London is its own singular, often monstrous, character in the fiction of the last two decades of the nineteenth century” (323) “There is, without doubt, a language or discourse of the city at the end of the century which grips the literary imagination, and of which Marsh partakes readily.” (323) “The new woman has no desire to imitate the bad points of the other sex: she sees no shame in womanliness; but unfortunately, neither men nor women exactly agree on…
It was really interesting and enlightening to look at other people’s common place book entries. It brought other perspectives and focuses into my learning and made me think about parts of the book I hadn’t thought of previously. The three people I commented on all focused on different aspects of the novel from the author to the content to the themes behind the novel. They can all be tied together though because Wilde took themes and feelings from his own…
“The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art” (254) “The name is therefore consistent with the frequent comparisons of Dorian Gray to figures in Greek mythology and with his resemblance to the kind of idealized male figure represented in Greek art” (261) “The natural preservation of Dorian’s perfection by art, and the unnatural reversal of roles of art and life, constitute the idea that gives the novel its momentum” (265)…
“I gave a view holloa, took to my heels, collared my gentleman, and brought him back to where there was already quite a group about the screaming child. He was perfectly cool and made no resistance, but gave me on look, so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running” (35) “Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation, he had a displeasing smile, he had borne himself to…
St. Luke’s Hospital was a mental illness hospital in London that was established in 1750 for the treatment of poor people diagnosed with lunacy. The hospital was closed and reopened multiple times under different names until finally becoming the psychological department of Middlesex Hospital. The artifact I found most interesting is a collection of pages containing the rules and orders to be observed by the resident officers and servants with amendments. The pages appear folded and wrinkled in some places…
