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Western Lit (4/24/06) FINAL
"My apologies for the lack of class last week, guys. If any of you actually spent the time studying... I'd be very surprised. I wouldn't've. But then, I'm a depressed, semi-alcoholic novelist who can't publish a novel and is forced to make ends meet as a high school English teacher."
"You may be completely unsurprised to learn that I will not be renewing my contract for this summer or next fall. This will be our last class together."
"Anyway, your final projects are due. Please make your presentation based on your written final project." [from the Syllabus]
"I will post your grades as soon as they are completed."
"You may be completely unsurprised to learn that I will not be renewing my contract for this summer or next fall. This will be our last class together."
"Anyway, your final projects are due. Please make your presentation based on your written final project." [from the Syllabus]
"I will post your grades as soon as they are completed."
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*Beowulf
*Odyssey
*Midsummer Night's Dream
*Look Homeward, Angel
*Masque of the Red Death
*The Three Musketeers
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The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas was both a romance and an action novel. The characters in the novel were based on real life historical figures. The musketeers were actual musketeers, although it is not known if they actually knew each other. The villains of the novel were based on real people as well. The Three Musketeers is a romance because of the underlying motivation of the musketeers' actions. They take actions for the love of people they care about and for the love of their country. The action part of the novel is evident in the way they go about achieving their goals. There are many duels, as that is how musketeers win their battles. The action combined with the romance make this a good novel for a wide audience, both male and female.
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The story of Beowulf was written by an anonymous author, originally in Old English around the tenth century. It tells the tale of a nearly indestructible hero named Beowulf who, for the sake of riches and fame, protects the common people from a monster that had been terrorizing them for twelve years. The story was likely heavily influenced by the times, when the kings of England only recognized the wealthy and educated, and neglected the poor. So, with stories much like Robin Hood, they recited stories that narrated about a hero who protected the people with little difficulty. It was like their hope back then, and the story has managed to survive over thousands of years.
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The Odyssey is a Greek epic ascribed to Homer between 800 and 600 B.C., about the return home of Odysseus after the Trojan War. It takes Odysseus ten years to return to his native land of Ithaca; in his absence, his son Telemachus and his wife Penelope must deal with a group of unruly suitors who compete for Penelope's hand in marriage, since it is assumed that Odysseus has died. The poem is considered one of the foundational texts of the Western canon and continues to be read in both Homeric Greek and translations around the world. While today's Odyssey is usually a printed text, the original poem was an oral composition sung by a trained bard, in an amalgamated Ancient Greek dialect, using a regular metrical pattern called dactylic hexameter. Each line of the original Greek was composed of six feet; each foot a dactyl or a spondee. Among the most impressive elements of the text are its strikingly modern non-linear plot, and its elevation of the status of women and the lower classes.
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"Hey, how's it goin'?" He greeted the class. "As you can see, I'm dressed like a musketeer from Alexander Dumas' The Three Musketeers. The Three Musketeers was about Athos, Porthos and Aramis, three guys who were part of the king's guard, the musketeers, in France. Then there was the fourth musketeer guy, whose name we know most in pop culture - d'Artangan. The plot revolves around these guys trying to save their King and country from an evil scheme run by a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic church. That's just a bit of background info. The stuff I wrote about was how The Three Musketeers appeals to such a wide audience. Both guys and girls get something out of it. For the ladies it's the romance side of things, plus I guess the image of possibly hot, noble guys running around saving things while dressed up all fancy." He gestured to his own outfit. "And the guys can get into it for all of the action and adventure and boys' club antics that the musketeers get up to. So yeah, The Three Musketeers is still popular today because Alexander Dumas came up with a good balance between romance and action that can draw the attention of a whole bunch of different people. All for one and one for all!"
Then he went to sit down.
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