Studying Aspects of British Literature

What are two to three literary terms that you could use for your literary analysis paper? In other words, what text do you plan on using and what could you analyze in this text? I think that I could use the terms Protagonist, and Antagonist this would show the types of characters that are within the story, and could help me analyze the relationship between the good hero and bad person who works against the hero. Also characterization will help with the analyzation of the protagonist and antagonist characters within the story.

Using conflict also will help with analyzing the characters, and with person against society, nature, self, and another person. I am looking at analyzing Beowulf, and that is why I choose the following terms, I think that analyzing those areas within the story will give me a good literary analysis of the writing.

I also think that looking at the moral of the writing will also contribute to the analysis of the writing.

What is the Growth Mindset and how might this concept prove helpful and beneficial for this course? A growth mindset is when people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work—brains and talent are just the starting point, is a belief that we never stop learning and improving. Someone with a growth mindset would be willing to try math problems even if they failed at first. They see failure and setbacks as an indication that they should continue developing their skills rather than a signal that indicates, this is something I’m not good at.

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As a result, people who have a growth mindset are more likely maximize their potential. They tend to learn from criticism rather than ignoring it, to overcome challenges rather than avoiding them and to find inspiration in the success of others rather than feeling threatened. Having a growth mindset for this class is important because we are willing to try new things and learn those, having a growth mindset will allow us to have an open mind to learning the aspects of British Literature, and not worry about if we fail at first, that we continue to keep trying until we get it right.

What character from our reading this semester did you identify with the most? What character resonated with you or made the most significant impression on you and why? Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hermia is faced with three impossible choices: marry a man she doesn’t love, disobey her father and die, or become a nun. Instead, she chooses a course of her own and risks adventure in a magical wood. The character Hermia is one in which I could identify with, I felt that she was faced with decisions that were unfair to her, she seemed to be lost in a sense on what was the right decision to make, marry the man she loved or disobey her father. I had a similar incident in my life where I wanted to marry a man that my dad did not approve of, it was a hard decision for me to make. I felt lost in what was right and how to make a decision that would affect my life forever, needless to say I did not marry the man I loved because for me my father’s love was the most influential and important love that I could ever have, no man could ever measure up to what my dad is to me. Even though I loved the man, and still do to this day, I have never regretted my decision, for the simple reason is I could never imagine my life without my dad in my corner.

What text that we’ve read this semester do you think is the most relevant still today, and why? In other words, what text do you see as instructing us how to live today, in the twenty-first century? Please explain and justify your choice. I think that the story of Beowulf is still relevant today. Beowulf has found ways into our modern lives, for example through a comic book back in 1975, in an animated film in 1980’s. Beowulf has the same appeal as our video games about war that are made today. Much like our fantasy in videos games Beowulf is a brave young warrior of strength and courage that removes dangers from his land. The appeal of Beowulf continues in the interests in the basic man and the absolute defeat of evil by our heroes. The poems main themes are about human nature, the relationship between leader and follower, the human struggle between good and evil, this similarities have not changed through history the human nature has stayed the same.

What word or idea is still muddy or unclear for you from our course? What do you still have questions about, or what would you perhaps like to explore further because it seems interesting? One of the literary terms that I still am having a hard time with is Alliteration, and how to find it exactly throughout the readings. Why is this important within writing, does it make the flow of the words sound better. To me it seems to make it more difficult for me to understand what they are truly trying to say. I do find the word and the meaning to be interesting and would like to learn more about why this type of writing is used. Is this type of writing still used in today’s writings or was this type of writing used more in early centuries? For me it is easier to understand writing when it is straight and to the point, I find it more difficult to understand “fair breeze blew”, just say the breeze blew much easier. So for me that is what I am still having a hard time with, but would like to understand more about it.

What can you tell me about the history of England? Knowing what you know now about British history and British literature, what themes or events stand out for you from British history? The name England comes from the Anglo-Saxons who arrived in the 5th century. The territory of England has been united as one country since the 10th century. I think events that stood out to me were the Elizabethan Era, which is considered to be one of the most influential ages of English Literature. In this era there was a great growth and accomplishment in literature especially in poetry and drama. This era was the beginning of William Shakespeare. Queen Elizabeth was a loyal of Shakespeare’s work throughout his career. Shakespeare faithfully supported the queen and referred to her in several of his works, including ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream. England prospered in the second half of Elizabeth’s reign, and many of the great works of English literature were produced during these years: art, poetry, drama, and learning in general flourished as the confidence and nationalism Elizabeth inspired spilled from the economic sector to cultural achievements.

What is “literature”? What makes a text a piece of “literature,” rather than just a book, a text, or a story? What specific characteristics make a piece of writing “literature”? If we give the title of “literature” to a specific work, what must be going on in that text to earn the title of “literature”? Literature is written works, especially those that are considered to be superior, books and writings that are published. Literature is a group of works or art made up of words. Literature usually means a work of poetry that are well written, there are many different kinds of literature poetry, plays or even novels. Good literature is timeless and placeless, that the themes of the story and messages conveyed by the story are important no matter the era or place the reader is in. Good literature will help make connections between the story and the world around you; it will also use words in interesting and unusual ways in order to see the picture the author is trying to portray.

What exactly does it mean to conduct “literary analysis”? What is literary analysis and where/when have you done literary analysis this semester? Analyzing literature means that you are taking a deeper look into and begin to fill in the pieces of the story. You do this by exploring the setting, characters, and plot in more depth all while giving consideration to the author’s choice of language and writing style. You want to make sure that you identify the authors purpose, think about the characters, setting, plot etc. so that it helps ensure that the readers gets the meaning that the writer intended for you to learn. During the course of this semester we have done literary analysis through our discussion posts, we are asked to analyze what we have read and give our opinion of what we felt happened, and also provide our thoughts on certain areas of the writing. We have analyzed certain characters throughout our discussion posts, as well as why we felt the authors wrote the story the way they did.

What specific themes stood out to you so far this semester? What themes run through the different works we’re reading and why do you think that is? The main theme in the poem A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream is about the difficulties of love, while Beowulf’s theme is about glory, good versus evil and his loyalty. Beowulf, the major themes reflect the values and the motivations of the characters. I feel that the theme of the difficulties of love portrayed in A Midsummer’s Night Dream is shown through by the choices Hermia is faced with, portray her father, become a nun, or marry the man that she loves.

If you could pose two questions to a specific (known or unknown) author this semester, what would those questions be and why would you choose that author and those questions? I would really like to talk with Shakespeare and really get to know why in is writing does the love story he tells in a Midsummer Night’s Dream and in Romeo and Juliet not end well for those characters. Hermia does not get to marry the man she loves, nor Romeo and Juliet they both die. I would like to know if the love in his life helped paint the picture of these stories’ the way then ended up, was he never in love, or was he hurt by his one and true love. I choose Shakespeare because his writing has always intrigued me, I feel that he was portraying parts of his own life within these stories, but doing so without anyone really knowing that is was about him and his life. I often wondered if he wrote the way he did based on his real life events, or did he just make them up as he went.