Week Eight (2015.11.4) --- Continue Poe’s poetry and criticism
"Young Goodman Brown" is a short story published in 1835 by American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. The story takes place in 17th century Puritan New England, a common setting for Hawthorne's works, and addresses the Calvinist/Puritan belief that all of humanity exists in a state of depravity, except those who are born in a state of grace.
As a literary device, an allegory in its most general sense is an extended metaphor.
e.g. The Faerie Queene
Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized (given human qualities, such as verbal communication) and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a pithy maxim.
e.g. The Ants and the Grasshopper
A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. It differs from a fable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters. A parable is a type of analogy.
e.g. The Obstacle in Our Path
Initiation journey
rite of passage 成年禮: a celebration of the passage which occurs when an individual leaves one group to enter another. It involves a significant change of status in society.
commencement ceremony 畢業典禮: getting a diploma or academic degree or the ceremony that is sometimes associated, where students become graduates.
Baptism 洗禮: a Christian sacrament of admission and adoption, almost invariably with the use of water, into the Christian Church generally.
Orpheus was a legendary Thracian musician, poet, and prophet in ancient Greek religion and myth.
You're So Vain - Carly Simon (song)
You're So Vain in "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days"
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (IMDb)
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days is a 2003 romantic comedy film directed by Donald Petrie, starring Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. It is based on a short cartoon book of the same name by Michele Alexander and Jeannie Long.
Working Girl is a 1988 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols and written by Kevin Wade. It tells the story of a Staten Island-raised secretary, Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith), working in the mergers and acquisitions department of a Wall Street investment bank. When her boss, Katharine Parker (Sigourney Weaver), breaks her leg skiing, Tess uses Parker's absence and connections, including her errant beau Jack Trainer (Harrison Ford), to put forward her own idea for a merger deal.
Hillary Clinton - Action is Eloquence
The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope, in Vatican City. Originally known as the Cappella Magna, the chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who restored it between 1477 and 1480. Since that time, the chapel has served as a place of both religious and functionary papal activity.
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (Michelangelo)
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