Blog Assignment #1

I.- Which 2 readings did you select from the list?

I selected

a)Heart of Darkness

b)The Murders in the Rue Morgue


II.- Using these readings, compare (3 examples) and contrast (3 examples) the works with the ppt presentations on Victorian Literature and Culture given in class.

COMPARATION EXAMPLES:HEART OF DAKRNESS

1.- You can notice that all the characters are very civilized people who have a very good and funny job but in their own lifes in their personal life they live vey incivilized of what they are outside of their home or of their own worlds.

2.- Basically the Ambition is why all the main characters get into a conflict with all the people and all the world basically.

3.- The dark side of humans is present here because of the poverty that they suffers and also for the reasons of the bad persons that nobody liked.


CONTRAST EXAMPLES:HEART OF DARKNESS

1.- The author described all the things happened by the moment as they really was it was if he was doing a retrait of the reality in that jungle.

2.- Basically the new perspectives of all the things and also the inventions and technology managed by that time.

3.- The Idea and the concept of Darwin's evolution theory about the evolution of the monkeys that became basically what we are today HUMANS.

COMPARATION EXAMPLES: The Murders In The Rue Morgue
1.- The author shows the darkness of the life in his work.

2.- The concept that Women had a very secondary role in the society of that period.

3.- You can smell the mystery and all the scary things in this book.


CONTRAST EXAMPLES: The Murders In The Rue Morgue
1.- He's a very Romantic author.

2.- The Allusion of the problems are mentioned in this work.

3.- Edgar Allan Poe have problems with the alcohol and the bets actually he had a very bad problem with gambling and this things were not looked in that period it was something normal, as an example.


III. Do you feel that the readings you completed are very good or excellent examples of Victorian Literature? Why/Why not?

Yes I feel that the readings that I completed were excellents examples of Victorian Literature, because of the symbols and also the themes shown in the books a very good view of the reality of those days.

IV.- Would you recommend these readings to your friends and family? Why/Why not?

For sure I will recommend these readings to a friend or to somebody of my family they are so good and not long at all to read it and also are very interesting and you could know a lot of things about of the war for the money and the mystery in each book but I will be careful to who I will recommend it because a person who doesn't have a criticism judgment of what is he reading could not have the same reaction as a person who have that judgment to say what it's ok or what not.