Ms. Bridges' AP English

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Part 1 Chapter 1 Raskolnikov goes to the apartment of Alyona's to pawn a watch, a family heirloom, and to case her apartment.  Chapter 2  Raskolnikov goes to a tavern and meets Marmeladov Introduction of "No Where to Turn" motif Marmeladov takes Raskolnikov to his wretched apartment where he meets his family Chapter 3 Raskolnikov wakes up in his bed, feeling irritable and unrefreshed. Receives disturbing letter from his mother: his sister, Dounia, is sacrificing herself by marrying a man named Luzhin to help Raskolnikov out. Luzhin wants a poor girl who will be obedient and grateful to him for saving her. Raskolnikov is enraged. Dounia and their mother, Pulkheria,  are all coming to St. Petersberg to live after the marriage. Letter introduces: Scandal involving Svidrigaelov, his wife Marfa, and Dounia who was a governess in their home. Chapter 4 Raskolnikov walks the streets of St. Petersberg railing against Luzhin. The young drunken gir...

1. MARMELADOV: Part 1; Chapter 2; pages 8 - 23     Analysis of the character of Marmeladov and the motif of "no where to turn". 2. THE UNDERAGE PROSTITUTE: Part 1, Chapter 4; pages 39 - 43      Analysis of the underage prostitute and the failure of the Utilitarian Theory. This scene      also shows the irreconcilable schism in Raskolnikov's personality between the intellect and      emotion, which deflates the argument of the Hegelian Dialectic: A thesis generates its anti      thesis until the thesis and its anti-thesis create a synthesis between the two.   3.  THE BEATING of the MARE: Part 1, Chapter 5; pages 46 - 50       Analysis of Raskolnikov's nightmare of the torturing and killing of the mare. How each com-       ponent of the dream - the mare, the little boy, the drunken owner, the little boy's father - may be     ...

  Wednesday, May 8, 2013 A.P. English Literature  Some things I want to go over with you before the test:  The villanelle is a fixed form in poetry. It has six stanzas: five tercets (verses of three lines each, with the rhyme scheme aba),   ending with a final quatrain (four line verse).   It utilizes two refrains: The first and the last lines of the first stanza alternates as the last line of the next four stanzas and then forms a final couplet in the quatrain. An excellent example of a villanelle is “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas (page 871 in ENGLAND in Literature).  Dylan Thomas was the premiere poet of Wales, noted for his outrageous drinking and carousing as well as brilliant poetry.  His poetry was noted for its musicality, with the words selected (in some of his plays) more for their beauty of sound rather than for their absolute meaning.  The following poem was wri...