Need 18 Journals at 250 words each out of these prompts
On Pride and Prejudice, Dubliners and Hard Times
Pride and Prejudice
• Impressions of the first meeting of Darcy and Elizabeth versus the first meeting of Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Iseult
• Define and then find an example of verbal irony and discuss it (not the opening sentence).
• How do you get to “know” another person in your own life? How is it the same or different from how the characters get to know each other?
• Compare Elizabeth and Jane and Charlotte
• Compare Mr. Collins’s proposal to Mr. Darcy’s proposal
• What two things change Elizabeth’s views toward Darcy? How?
• What would be missing from the story without Lady Catherine de Bourgh?
• Fathers and Lovers
• Where do you see “Reason” in this story? Where do you see “Romanticism”?
• Discuss the role of “convention” and “etiquette” in this work; in your life
• Your own topic
• Compare Darcy and Tristan
Hard Times
• Describe the setting of Hard Times; how is it symbolic of the theme of the novel?
• Who is Thomas Gradgrind, Sr. like in The Incredibles? in any other “modern” work?
• Describe the narrator. Is he a character?
• Discuss the philosophy of Utilitarianism in the novel.
• What do you make of Stephen Blackpool? What would he be like in today’s world?
• Compare Louisa and her father to Elizabeth Bennett and her father, Juliet and her father
• Compare the world of HT to the world we live in
• What is different in this work from what we’ve read before?
• What is “realistic”? What is “Romantic”? (Be sure to review these terms in a literary dictionary.)
• In what way is the “model of education” similar to your own education?
• What is Imagination? What role does it play in your own life?
Dubliners
• Compare Gabriel Conroy to the narrator of “Araby.”
• Describe Gretta.
• Discuss the setting, scenery, mood in Dubliners. What seems symbolic?
• Compare Gabriel to Michael Furey; compare either to Romeo or Tristan
• What elements of Modernism do you see in these stories?
• What conflicts are presented? Are they resolved?
• Your own topic in these short stories.
• What does it mean “to go west”?
• Choose a passage from “The Dead” and explicate
• To what or to whom does the title “the Dead” refer?