ENGL 212 British Literature

ENGL 212 Week 7 Discussion | regent-universityRespond to one of the following questions for your initial dialogue post:1. Many of the works from this unit paint a bleak picture of Western culture at the start of the 20th century. Which work did you find most thought-provoking and why? Be very precise in citing details from the text you choose to discuss.2. Marlowe tells Kurtz' betrothed that his last words were her name. How do you understan

ENGL 212 Week 6 Discussion | regent-universityRespond to one of the following questions for your initial dialogue post: 1. One of the things Oscar Wilde is doing in the play is mocking 19th-century ideas and culture. Choose one aspect of the 19th century that he mocks and/or satirizes, explain how we does it, and then reflect on why he sees it as wrong. Be very precise in your use of the text to defend your point. 2. Oscar Wilde's use

ENGL 212 Week 5 Quiz | regent-university• Question 1 Who makes it possible for Algy to go down to the country whenever he chooses? • Question 2 Within a few years after the the stage debut of The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde had completed two years of hard labor for sexual misconduct and was left bankrupt and socially ruined. • Question 3 Who has been teaching Cecily German? • Question 4

ENGL 212 Week 5 Discussion | regent-universityRespond to one of the following questions for your initial dialogue post:1. Choose one of the readings for this week and reflect on the worldview it expresses. Focus particularly on the role of God and his relationship (or lack of relationship) with the individual. Be sure to use specific details from the work you choose to develop your response.2. Carlyle wrote about early Victorian economic and

ENGL 212 Week 4 Quiz | regent-university• Question 1 Who tells the children "There is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather" in "Goblin Market"? • Question 2 Both Lizzie and Laura eat of the goblin fruit in "Goblin Market"? • Question 3 According to the biographical material on Gerard Manley Hopkins, the metrical scheme he invented based on the "energizing prosodic element of his verse" is called...

ENGL 212 Week 4 Discussion | regent-universityRespond to one of the following questions for your initial dialogue post:1. In the poems we've read for this unit, each of the speakers and/or main characters are defined by their interpersonal relationships. Discuss how the speaker or main character in one work understands him or herself in relation to other people. Use specific details from the poem to support your response.2. Which poem strikes you

ENGL 212 Week 3 Discussion | Regent UniversityRespond tooneof the following questionsfor your initial dialogue post:1) Which character changes more in the course of the novel, Emma or Mr. Knightley? Find one or two specific passages in the text that support your view.2) Is Emma's matchmaking not only a character flaw but a moral flaw? Using one or two passages show where Austen may suggest hidden motives behind one or more of Emma's proposed matc

ENGL 212 Week 2 Reading | Regent University · Question 1 Emma's good initial opinion of Frank Churchill was somewhat diminished when she heard... · Question 2 Whose mother is nearly deaf?

ENGL 212 Week 2 Discussion | Regent UniversityRespond to one of the following questionsfor your initial dialogue post:1) Much of the later Romantic literature centers on the tragedy of human mortality. Youth and love and beauty and the very best of human aspiration all pass away in time. The frustrating limitations of human mortality shake even the strongest of individuals. Choose one work from this unit that seems especially interesting to you i

ENGL 212 Week 1 Reading 2 | Regent University · Question 1 The work that brought Byron initial fame in 1812 and introduced the "Byronic Hero" wasDon Juan. · Question 2 In "Ode to the West Wind," Shelley evokes the wind to scatter