Final Review: The final will be structured much like the midterm, with a combination of quote identification, definitions, and short answers. The material covered will include Pygmalion, The Scarlet Letter, Master Harold…and the boys, and A Doll’s House. The only difference between the final and the midterm is that on the final there will be more short answer questions. I will choose the quotes from those listed below.
1. The great secret is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
2. We must not talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
3. It’s not just that we are all bad dancers. That does happen to be perfectly true, but there’s more to it than just that. You left out the cripples. … They’re also out there dancing… like a bunch of broken spiders trying to do the quickstep.
4. I found other ways of making money. Last winter I was very lucky. I got a lot of copying to do, and I locked myself away and sat there writing—often till after midnight. Oh, sometimes I got so tired. But, you know, it was so much fun sitting there, working, earning money. It almost felt like being a man.
5. She had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness… her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places…For years past she had looked from this estranged point of view at human institutions, and whatever priests or legislators had established; criticizing all with hardly more reverence than the Indian would feel for the clerical band… The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set her free. … Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers—stern and wild ones—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.
6. Let’s dream.
7. Put your mind at ease, my frightened little songbird. You’re safe now and my big broad wings will protect you. … I will protect you –like a hunted dove that I’ve saved from the talons of a hawk. … soon everything will be as it was before. …It is so indescribably sweet and satisfying for a man to know that he has forgiven his wife—completely forgiven her and with all his heart. It’s as if that simple act has made her doubly his own.
8. There’s no collisions out there… Nobody trips or stumbles or bumps into anybody else. That’s what that moment is all about. To be one of those finalists on that dance floor is like… like being in a dream about a world in which accidents don’t happen.
9. But, on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.
10. I’m one of the undeserving poor: that’s what I am. … I don’t need less than a deserving man: I need more. I want a bit of amusement, cause I’m a thinking man… What is middle-class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything. … I ain’t pretending to be deserving. I’m undeserving; and I mean to go on being undeserving. I like it; and that’s the truth.
11. If you’re not careful…you’re going to be sitting up there by yourself for a long time to come, and there won’t be a kite in the sky.
12. Oh yes. Just so this stubborn little woman can get her own way. Do you think I’m going to make myself look like a fool in front of my whole staff? Do you think I’m going to let people think I’m a man who will change his mind because of outside pressure? I can assure you I’d feel the consequences of that pretty quickly.
13. Such was the sympathy of Nature—that wild, heathen Nature of the forest, never subjugated by human law, nor illumined by higher truth—with the bliss of these two spirits! Love, whether newly born or aroused from deathlike slumber, must always create a sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.
14. You told me that when a child is brought to a foreign country, it picks up the language in a few weeks and forgets its own. Well, I am a child in your country. I have forgotten my own language, and can speak nothing but yours.
15. Why shouldn’t I look at the thing I love most? All that beauty—and it’s mine, all mine.
16. I sold flowers. I didn’t sell myself. Now you’ve made a lady of me I’m not fit to sell anything else. I wish you’d left me where you found me.
17. Moonlight, in a familiar room… is a medium most suitable for a romance-writer to get acquainted with his illusive guests. … Thus, therefore, the floor of our familiar room has become a neutral territory, somewhere between the real world and fairy-land, where the Actual and the Imaginary may meet and each imbue itself with the nature of the other.
18. I mean that I was simply handed over from Papa to you. You arranged everything to suit your own tastes, and so I had the same tastes as you—or else I pretended to. … The whole reason for my existence was to perform tricks for you….You and Papa have committed a great sin against me. It is your fault that I have made nothing of my life.
19. It had been intended, there could be no doubt, as an ornamental article of dress, but how it was to be worn, or what rank, honor, and dignity, in by-past times, were signified by it, was a riddle which … I saw little hope of solving.
20. I would have been suicidal if anything had happened to it. Watching you do it made me nervous enough. I was quite happy just to see it up there with its tail fluttering behind. You left me after that, didn’t you? You explained how to get it down, we tied it to the bench so that I could sit and watch hit, and you went away. I wanted you to stay, you know. I was a little scared of having to look after it by myself.
21. I don’t believe that any more. I believe that before everything I am a thinking human being just as you are—or, at any rate, that I must try to become one. … But I can no longer be satisfied with what most people say or what’s written in books. I must think things over for myself and try to understand them.
Terms:
comedy
tragedy
satire
romance
dramatic irony
dynamic and static characters