Blogs:
1. Madame Bovary (January 26th)
2. The Devil (February 2nd)
3. Still the devil (Febraury 9th)
4. shh… I’m trying to hear you think (February 9th)
5. Group Discussion (Febraury 11th)
6. Secondary Source for To the Lighthouse (March 3rd
7. Myra and Social Critique (March 3rd)
8. Myron (March 3rd)
I take a great interest in the social and political critiques each novel has made. Also, I’ve closely examined the emotions portrayed through each character in relation to their sex or family role. What I’ve seemed to be always drawn to is the purpose of the lesser characters in each novel (Homais, Mrs. McNab, Letitia). I find that authors veil underlying meanings to their texts in these characters, which either compliment or challenge their larger charaster counterparts. I am also prone to use a religious lens while reading any piece of fiction. It is easy to see the influence of the religious expectation (on the current society being represented) that litters itself through the texts. I have to say though that I think the examination of gender roles is like beating a dead horse (an act I am obviously accountable for since most of my blog posts talk about the female psyche in each of the novels.) My biggest interest in the projection ofhuman emotion on the written page. Our novels have opened the doors to human conditions like envy, pride, lust, greed, sympathy, and anger. With all these emotions, they are usually directed toward other characters as well as to the chracter who is experiencing them. This is a social critique of human interactions. Although all the novels have produced some sort of representaion of society, it was Myra Breckinridge that openly criticized the American dynamic. I hope to see more of this, since this is what I am personally most interested in.
