Schedule for Heart of Darkness

Part I due on Friday 1/16
Part II due Wednesday 1/21
Part III due Friday 1/23

Don't be surprised if there are some quick reading quizzes before the end of the quarter :)

Link to the BBC documentary on youtube

We watched this documentary and took notes

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aeu1z7Gfasg

An interesting gloss of The Dead...check it out

http://www.mendele.com/WWD/WWDdead.notes.html

The Questions we've decided to discuss for "The Dead"

1. Why is Gabriel so uncomfortable with the women in the story?
2. What's the significance of the motif of song and singers in the story?
3. Mr. Brown's significance?
4. Significance of the horse story Gabriel tells?
5. Details about the food? What's the significance?
6. B'Artell Darcy's significance?
7. Why does Miss Ivors leave?
8. Gabriel's relationship to Ireland and to the Irish?
9. Significance of the snow?
10. Significance of West?
11. What does the end mean?
12. Why is the dialogue so disjointed among the speakers.
13. How does Gabriel construct his identity? How do others' see him and how does he see himself?
14. What's the significance of the title?
15. What are the connections to Dante?
16. What's the significance of the white and the dark?
17. Why are there eyes everywhere?

Fabulous reading of James Joyce's short story "The Dead"

http://www.selectedshorts.org/2014/12/family-and-friends-james-joyces-the-dead-part-1/

http://www.selectedshorts.org/2015/01/james-joyces-the-dead-part-2/