Every Trip Is A Quest

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I. Every Trip is a Quest
a. Ordinary journey can be a quest
b. Reason for a quest is self-knowledge
i. Stated goal of journey is not the true goal.
1. Quester normally fails this task.
2. Normally fades as story progresses.
c. Components of a quest
i. Quester ii. Place to go iii. Stated reason iv. Challenges and trials
v. Real reason to go
d. Sometimes a trip is really just a trip.
II. Nice to Eat with You: Act of Communion
a. When characters eat and drink together, it is communion.
b. Communion is not always Christian or holy.
c. Sharing food is an act of peace.
i. People eat around those they are comfortable with.
d. Shows the relationship between characters.
e. Communion helps reader to empathize with characters.
III. Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires
a. Ghosts and vampires in literature are not really just about ghosts and vampires.
i. Placing ugly desires above the needs of others.
b. Younger woman usually the victim.
i. Loss of innocence. ii. Figurative form of sex. iii. Vampire is normally attractive
c. Vampire is an older figure with outdated values.
d. Represents exploitation and selfishness.
i. Weakening others for personal gain.
IV. If It’s a Square, It’s a Sonnet
a. Sonnets take on a square shape.
i. Fourteen lines long and ten syllables across.
b. Sonnets have two closely related units of meaning with some sort of shift in between.
c. Poem shape can illuminate shifts in tone, setting, and mood.
d. Petrarchan Sonnet
i. Rhyme scheme tying the octave together ii. Rhyme scheme unifying the sestet
e. Shakespearian Sonnet
i. Three quatrains and one couplet.
1. First two quatrains generally have unity of meaning, as well as the third quatrain and the couplet.
V. Now, Where Have I Seen Her Before?
a. No absolutely original w...

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... Serious? And Other Ironies
a. If irony is used in a work, all of the other rules should be forgotten.
i. Irony trumps everything.
b. Authors can turn the reader’s expectations around to make a statement or a point about something.
c. Irony creates a dual awareness in the reader due to what was expected and what actually happened.
d. Keep an eye on characters with low autonomy.
i. These characters are generally vital to the meaning of the work.
XXVII. A Test Case
a. “The Garden Party” by Mansfield illuminates a struggle between the social classes.
i. People keep a narrow world view and separate themselves from what lies outside.
b. Birds and flight are used as a metaphor for how the Sheridan’s isolate themselves from those in the lower classes.
c. The garden alludes to the Garden of Eden.
d. Laura Sheridan is actually Persephone when she visits the figurative hell.

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