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If I could choose one text from this semester and teach at any level I wanted I would choose to teach in a high school classroom and the text would be Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s, “Decolonizing the Mind”. I chose this text because I felt it was one of the most important we covered and mostContinue reading “Final Blog Post: Prompt 2”

The story “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson has many qualities and themes that would be beneficial to be taught to students, especially to a higher grade like 11th or 12th, or even to college students in an English class. Some of the themes that I think areContinue reading “The Teaching of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde””

I think one of the most prevailing themes in literature is the idea of good and evil. As a human race we have created mythologies and belief systems centered on this innate desire to know what it means to be good or bad. Many of our origin stories center on the idea of good andContinue reading “Good vs. Evil”

During the Victorian era, there was scientific advancement, economic growth, and social anxieties that led to literary movements specifically referring to realist fiction novels. The realist novellas depicted everyday life events, moral attitude, and interior struggles of a Victorian character/ author’s point of view in the Victorian period. In the Broadview Anthology of British LiteratureContinue reading “The Strange Case of Victorian Realism”

     The Rector by Margaret Oliphant’s follows the story about a rector who replaces the death of Carlingford’s old rector. Even though Carlingford is a fictional town, we can relay back to our textbooks definition of Victorian Realism and see how Oliphant uses realist aesthetics throughout The Rector.      The Broadview Anthology of British LiteratureContinue reading “Victorian Realism- The Rector by Margaret Oliphant”

The Victorian Era and the Industrial Revolution brought new times and never before seen accelerated advancement of science and technology. With this new technological age, much of Victorian literature followed a strict leaning towards realism. All of Europe (except England) had been involved in sweeping revolutions in 1848 and these failed revolutions brought a newContinue reading “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Your Darkest Desires”

As the Broadway Anthology described it, “many of the best known Victorian novels contain elements of the fantastic, supernatural, or the mysterious…” No description could better describe what  The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is all about. However, even though this story contains many aspects of a supernatural piece, there are manyContinue reading “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’s relationship with the Victorian era by:Zoe Smith”

When reading “The Speckled Band”, it is clear that it does not immediately fall into the realism category. Almost everything that happens in the story is so bizarre that there would be no way for it to happen in real life. Though if we were to come at this story with the task of connectingContinue reading “Realism Blog Post”

Even though “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson may not be seen as realistic, it holds many qualities that are often found in works of Victorian Realism. Victorian Realism was a response against Romanticism to show how life truly was, and even though “The Strange Case of Dr.Continue reading “Victorian Realism: “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde””