KNOW AND LEARN THESE LITERATURE QUOTES!!!
HUCKLEBERRY FINN: (1 & 2)
"We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big, still river, laying on our backs, looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed - only a little kind of a low chuckle.
This is from chapter 12 of Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" which features Huck and Jim. The major theme of this book is turning one's back on the deceit and shallowness of civilisation and getting back to what is real and true.
ANGELA'S ASHES: (3 & 4)
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived it all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.
"Angela's Ashes" is the book by Irish writer Frank McCourt and spans life from his childhood in Ireland to that of his life in America. I intensely dislike the orchestrated ugliness of this book, particularly its ending, and feel it detracts from the entire work.
WINSTON CHURCHILL: (5 & 6)
"A lie gets half way around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Sir Winston Churchill, statesman, politician, orator, leader of the United Kingdom through its darkest hours, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1953 for his many writings, which included a six volume set titled "The Second World War". His own life story makes remarkable reading.
DEATH OF A SALESMAN: (7 & 8)
"I've got to get some seeds. I've got to get some seeds, right away. Nothing's planted. I don't have a thing in the ground.
Spoken by Willy Loman in Act Two of "Death Of A Salesman" by Arthur Miller, this work is the agonising story of one man's struggle for conception of self and what he sees as the successful life, contrasted against what is his actuality.
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS: (9 & 10)
There is only now, and if two days is your life, then everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you will never get, you will have a good life."
For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway is the story of a young American in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. These words are spoken by the main character, Robert Jordan, in chapter thirteen, after he and Maria have made love in the heather. Dear me, how prickly.
THE GLASS MENAGERIE: (11 & 12)
"I pass the lighted windows of a shop where perfume is sold. The window is filled with pieces of broken glass, tiny transparent bottles in delicate colours, like bits of a shattered rainbow. Then all at once my sister touches my shoulder.. Oh Laura, Laura, I tried to leave you behind me, but I am more faithful than I intended to be!...I speak to the nearest stranger, anything that can blow your candles out!...Blow out your candles, Laura - and so goodbye."
This work by Tennessee Williams tells of a family trapped in destructive behaviour patterns. The quote is from Tom, many years later, long after he has left the home of his youth, turning his back on them all.
THE GREAT GATSBY: (13 & 14)
If it wasn't for the mist we could see your home across the bay...You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock.
The main theme in "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald is that which runs through many of the mighty American novels - that of the disillusionment of the great American Dream. For Gatsy, in this novel, Daisy represents this dream and its disillusionment.
HENRY V: (15 & 16)
"I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The games afoot: Follow your spirit; and upon this charge, Cry 'God for Harry! England and Saint George!
This stirring speech is from Shakespeare's Henry V, Act 3, Scene I. Another jolly battle and more blood and guts. Tallyho, boys!
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST: (17 & 18)
"To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Written by the brilliant Oscar Wilde, these words are spoken by Lady Bracknell in Act One of "The Importance of Being Ernest". This amusing and clever play deals with several characters maintaining false identities to avoid all the rigid social and moral expectations of that time in Victorian England. And didn't poor old Oscar find that out big time.
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST: (19 & 20)
"What worries me, Billy," she said - I could hear the change in her voice - "is how your mother is going to take this.
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey is a powerful novel about the individual's struggle against the authority and repression and conformity that society demands - symbolised in the book by one man's struggle against the nurse in control of an insane asylum.
HOMEWORK
Each quote has two numbers of your class list, find your number and investigate some more about the author or literary work that corresponds to you. (blog May 9th)
>>> Arthur Asher Miller<<<
ReplyDelete(October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005)[1][2] was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include plays such as All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge (one-act, 1955; revised two-act, 1956).
Miller was often in the public eye, particularly during the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s, a period during which he testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and was married to Marilyn Monroe.
The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published in 1925, it is set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City from spring to autumn of 1922.
ReplyDeleteThe novel takes place following the First World War. American society enjoyed prosperity during the "roaring" 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time, Prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers. After its republishing in 1945 and 1953, it quickly found a wide readership and is today widely regarded as a paragon of the Great American Novel, and a literary classic. The Great Gatsby has become a standard text in high school and university courses on American literature in countries around the world and is ranked second in the Modern Library's lists of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby
☻Henry V☻
ReplyDeleteIt is a 1989 film directed by Kenneth Branagh, based on William Shakespeare's play The Life of Henry the Fifth about the famous English king. Branagh stars in the title role, and wrote the screenplay. The film was highly acclaimed on its release.
(Welsh: Harri V) (16 September 1386 – 31 August 1422[1][2]) was King of England from 1413 until his death. He was the second monarch belonging to the House of Lancaster.
After military experience fighting rebellions against his father, Henry IV, Henry came into political conflict with the increasingly ill king. After his father's death, Henry rapidly assumed control of the country and embarked on war with France. From an unassuming start, his military successes in the Hundred Years' War, culminating with his famous victory at the Battle of Agincourt, saw him come close to conquering France. After months of negotiation with Charles VI of France, the Treaty of Troyes recognised him as regent and heir to the French throne, and he was subsequently married to Charles' daughter, Catherine of Valois. Following his sudden death in France of dysentery, he was succeeded by his infant son, who reigned as Henry VI.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_V_of_England
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ReplyDeleteKen (Elton) Kesey (1935-2001)
American writer, who gained world fame with his novel ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1962, filmed 1975). In the 1960s, Kesey became a counterculture hero and a guru of psychedelic drugs with Timothy Leary. Kesey has been called the Pied Piper, who changed the beat generation into the hippie movement.
I have found some web pages about it, if you want, you can check them... this novel is fantastic...
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/cuckoo/context.html
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo%27s_Nest
http://www.enotes.com/one-flew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2qGzLVnnRo&feature=related
The Importance of Being Earnest
ReplyDeleteThe original production of The Importance of Being Earnest in 1895 with Allan Aynesworth as Algernon (left) and George Alexander as Jack (right)
Written by Oscar Wilde
Date premiered 1895
Place premiered St James's Theatre,
London, England, UK
Original language English
Genre Comedy, farce
Setting London and an estate in Hertfordshire
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae in order to escape burdensome obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways. Contemporary reviews all praised the play's humour, though some were cautious about its explicit lack of social messages, while others foresaw the modern consensus that it was the culmination of Wilde's artistic career so far. Its high farce and witty dialogue have helped make The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde's most enduringly popular play.
William Shakespeare Biography
ReplyDeleteShakespeare also spelled Shakspere , byname Bard of Avon or Swan of Avon
baptized April 26, 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England—died April 23, 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon) English poet, dramatist, and actor, often called the English national poet and considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time.
Shakespeare occupies a position unique in world literature. Other poets, such as Homer and Dante, and novelists, such as Leo Tolstoy and Charles Dickens, have transcended national barriers; but no writer's living reputation can compare to that of Shakespeare, whose plays, written in the late 16th and early 17th centuries for a small repertory theatre, are now performed and read more often and in more countries than ever before. The prophecy of his great contemporary, the poet and dramatist Ben Jonson, that Shakespeare “was not of an age, but for all time,” has been fulfilled.
http://www.biography.com/articles/William-Shakespeare-9480323
*Henry V is a play by William Shakespeare based on the life of King Henry V of England. It deals with the events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War. The play is thought to date from the first few months of 1599 and is the final part of a tetralogy, preceded by Richard II, Henry IV, Part I and Henry IV, Part II.
William Shakespeare (born April 1564, traditionally celebrated on 23 April; baptised1564-04-26; died 1616-05-03 {1616-04-23 O.S.}) was an English playwright and poet.
Contents [hide]
1 Works of Shakespeare
2 Sourced
3 Misattributed
4 Quotes about Shakespeare
4.1 Psalm 46 rumours
5 See also
6 External links
[edit]Works of Shakespeare
But release me from my bands
With the help of your good hands.
Gentle breath of yours my sails
Must fill, or else my project fails,
Which was to please. Now I want
Spirits to enforce, art to enchant;
And my ending is despair,
Unless I be reliev'd by prayer,
Which pierces so that it assaults
Mercy itself, and frees all faults.
As you from crimes would pardon'd be,
Let your indulgence set me free.
~ Prospero in The TempestSeparate pages exist for quotations from all of the following works:
All's Well That Ends Well
Antony and Cleopatra
As You Like It
The Comedy of Errors
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry V
Henry VI, Part 1
Henry VI, Part 2
Henry VI, Part 3
Henry VIII
Julius Caesar
King John
King Lear
Love's Labour's Lost
Macbeth
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Richard II
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet
The Sonnets
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
Twelfth Night
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Two Noble Kinsmen
Venus and Adonis
The Winter's Tale
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare
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ReplyDeleteFOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS: (9 & 10)
ReplyDeleteThere is only now, and if two days is your life, then everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you will never get, you will have a good life."
For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway is the story of a young American in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. These words are spoken by the main character, Robert Jordan, in chapter thirteen, after he and Maria have made love in the heather. Dear me, how prickly
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving and wise. "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote to Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it."
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