Blog #16 -- Their Eyes Were Watching God Fishbowl Discussion Notes
3x3 and Open Question Prompts
Close Reading and Tone Shift Charts
Literary Criticism Close Reading Chart
Synthesis Chart
Three Questions
MLA Works Cited
Hello Divya! You did a nice job in the fishbowl discussion today. I found especially interesting the dichotomy that you drew between "Orpheus" and "The Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks". You contrasted the conception of new cultural expectations in both poems. On one hand, you pointed out that Eurydice didn't want to return to the world of the living because of the cruel brutality that killed her. On the other hand, Neruda's perspective was that the Little Mermaid was eager to explore the world above, and saw it as her path to attain love and an eternal soul. In the end, Eurydice returned to death as her sole escape from Orpheus' dominance. She accepts the Underworld as her new home and sanctuary. The mermaid also turned to death, by returning to the sea, to cleanse herself of man's atrocities. I wish you would also have mentioned that both female characters are rebuffed by the oppression of the new world. Eurydice, by Orpheus' pretense of love, and the mermaid, by the cruel acts of the drunks. Nevertheless, I loved how you worked in the arc of the archetypal heroes journey, and synthesized two poems at once, to draw a strong parallel between distinct pieces of literature. In the end, you drove home your point that the journey home is the ultimate peace from cultural dissonance.
Hello Divya! You did a nice job in the fishbowl discussion today. I found especially interesting the dichotomy that you drew between "Orpheus" and "The Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks". You contrasted the conception of new cultural expectations in both poems. On one hand, you pointed out that Eurydice didn't want to return to the world of the living because of the cruel brutality that killed her. On the other hand, Neruda's perspective was that the Little Mermaid was eager to explore the world above, and saw it as her path to attain love and an eternal soul. In the end, Eurydice returned to death as her sole escape from Orpheus' dominance. She accepts the Underworld as her new home and sanctuary. The mermaid also turned to death, by returning to the sea, to cleanse herself of man's atrocities. I wish you would also have mentioned that both female characters are rebuffed by the oppression of the new world. Eurydice, by Orpheus' pretense of love, and the mermaid, by the cruel acts of the drunks. Nevertheless, I loved how you worked in the arc of the archetypal heroes journey, and synthesized two poems at once, to draw a strong parallel between distinct pieces of literature. In the end, you drove home your point that the journey home is the ultimate peace from cultural dissonance.
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