English 325 week8

English 325 week8A

· Jean-Paul Sartre

Attached Files:

·  The Wall by Sartre.pdf  (136.324 KB)

Simone de Beauvoir

"Personal Freedom and Others" from The Ethics of Ambiguity

https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/ambiguity/ch02.htm

The Famous Couple

Jean Paul Sartre & Simone de Beauvoir: An Existential Love Affair

https://bonjourparis.com/memoirs/jean-paul-sartre-simone-de-beauvoir-existential-lo/

Discussion Board：

In de Beauvoir's essay, she identifies and defines certain types of men:

. the serious man

. the sub-man

. the nihilist

. the adventurer

. the passionate man

Which best describes Pablo?  Explain your answer with support from the text.

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English 325 week8B

· Albert Camus

Attached Files:

·  the guest by albert camus.pdf  (92.391 KB)

READ:  The Guest

DB

Here is a link to a short film (student-made) of "The Guest."  What do you think of the effort?  Compare the story (text) with the film.   What does the film do well?  What is is missing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tql3QH3b3Co

250 words， no work cited

English 325 week 8 Comment:

(make sure write where is this quote from into beginning of explanation) (you can find a quote from reading in first assignment).

Students will choose a short excerpt / quote from one of the readings of that week, type it in, then add a short (150 words or so) explanation for your choice. Was your selection important because it:

· is an example of beautiful or striking language?

· exemplifies a particular theme or character?

· makes the reader think about something in a new way?

· reflects a particular aspect of French culture?

· was just something that you liked?

For example:

"Whoever gets knowledge from God, science,

and a talent for speech, eloquence,

Shouldn't shut up or hide away;

No, that person should gladly display."  Marie de France

explanation:

In the opening lines to the Prologue to the Lays, Marie de France is providing her readers with an explanation for writing these stories down.  This is a very common and traditional rhetorical move informing readers about the ethos or qualifications of the speaker.  In this case, Marie is claiming that she is knowledgeable and eloquent and that these gifts come from God and therefore should be used.  I think it goes further than that; Marie, like most women of her day,* would have been expected to "shut up" and "hide away" as a matter of course, since women's voices were not welcomed in the public sphere.  By opening her work in this way, she preempts criticism about the appropriateness of her authorship.