domingo, 19 de septiembre de 2010

assigment #1 Victorian Age



1. Which 2 readings did you select from the list?
I choose The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and The murders in the Rue Morgue.

2. Using these readings, compare (3 examples) and contrast (3 examples) the works with the ppt presentations on Victorian Literature and Culture given in class.
In both stories the autors talk about terror and crime genre, and in both stories we can find wars through all the story the book.

Sleepy Hollow was the ghost of Sleepy Hollow was a soldier who lost his head during a Civil War, it shows rich people superticiuos believes, the life of puritans and inmigration, The village is a peaceful place and people share the characteristic of good people the same as in the Victorian Era,shows too how women are not involved like important, people inside the story, is for that maybe that the autor show for one side a superticious woman how maybe can be the guilty for the assesinations,and on the other hand we had the real guity of the assesinations, who wanted to guilt to the protagonist, it is show a big difference between real life of the Victorian age, and the fiction, because in the Victorian age the women opinion it wasn't very important.


The murders in the rue morgue the caracteristics of the places and people's job which are described corresponding to the people of that time. women doesn't take place in the society, good people in this story always say the truth, they always win and make justicies, people care about the other, people worried about how is common people, etc.

3. Do you feel that the readings you completed are very good or excellent examples of Victorian Literature? Why/Why not?
Both stories are faithfull about how was this age, both stories show how was the life after or during the war, show how people react in front of different values and situations. On the other hand the second story that I choose The Murders of the Rue Morgue happened in the real life, I mean it was not only a fiction, it was true too.

4. Would you recommend these readings to your friends and family? Why/Why not?
Definitely,specially to my brother because he loves read, and his favorite stories are about terror and in some cases crime genre, and I think he loves reads stories like these.