Wednesday

 Today we will continue with the overview of "New Criticism". 

You will be writing a "New Criticism" essays of 2-3 pages tomorrow, Friday, and Monday in class. Tuesday you will need to analyze the paragraph at the bottom of this page.

Remember - theme and how that theme is development. Also look at some of the questions "New Critics" ask. Note, remember this is the easiest of the lit theories that we will be covering, but it is the theory that AP Lit expects you to know and perform.

 Here are some, not all, themes to consider for BLEAK HOUSE

Poverty

Reputation 

Class Structure and Lineage

Power and moral principles

Appearances and Identity

Law vs Justice

Duty or Social Responsibility (Philanthrophy)

Family

Passion and Madness 

“Plenty will come in, but none can help. The Lord Chancellor of that Court, true to his title in his last act, has died the death of all Lord Chancellors in all Courts, and of all authorities in all places under all names soever, where false pretences are made, and where injustice is done. Call the death by any name Your Highness will, attribute it to whom you will, or say it might have been prevented how you will, it is the same death eternally—inborn, inbred, engendered in the corrupted humours of the vicious body itself, and that only—Spontaneous Combustion, and none other of all the deaths that can be died.”