Project Brainstorm | Week 14
In your project, consider the following:
What does this work reflect about its historical, social, political and/or economic context? You may focus on race, class, power, cultural values and beliefs, historical events, the author’s biography, gender, psychology, etc.
- I enjoy looking at different aspects of the readings and seeing how they are truly related to things like, power, class, race, history etc. so I think this would be a good topic to explore. I can also go into more depth to see how the time period could be affecting ones views/point of view on certain situation and events. By this I mean, I want to figure out what the author really means in whatever reading I decide to choose. I want to see if the Authors views or beliefs have an impact on the reading itself. If I don't use this prompt now I would like to use it for the next project.
The readings I've decide to discuss Virginia Woolfs: "A room of ones own" and James Baldwins, "Notes of a Native Son"
I chose these two readings because they are longer and I feel I can really explore the prompt with them.
With Virginia Woolf, I will discuss her views politically and socially. I believe her race, class and power can have a lot to do with her speech and have to do with the way she is feeling. I also believe her beliefs are a big role in this reading. She talks a lot about equality between men and women which is a big topic I will write about.
For James Baldwins, "Notes of a Native Son" I think discussing race, power and class will come easy since it is a story about Baldwin's personal life. I will also discuss how the time period effect could have have an impact on the author and the reading it self.
Hello Megan!
ReplyDeleteI think I decided to do this prompt with "Candide" because Voltaire also put either his personal experiences or parodies of real life events that affected him into the story. I think you have a great idea for your project because it sounds both authors have things that affected them in real life and put into paper through these works. I think you will have a lot to talk about with your project but if it seems that you have to much to write, try shrinking the project and only talk about one work if you think one work will give you enough for a project. Either way, good luck with your project and can't wait to see the finished work!
Hi there, Megan! I also like to explore the different aspects and perspectives of the work so I can have a more dynamic view of it and I can understand fully. I am excited for you to go further in depth to provide a deeper understanding of the work and what the author is trying to say. I am also going to be discussing Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own! I agree with everything you say about her characteristics. I think it is deeply reflected in her words and what she is trying to say. I think even the way she phrases things is a reflection of herself. I noticed plenty of run on sentences in her work but I wasn’t mad about it. To me it just showed she has a lot on her mind and her beautiful literature is a resemblance of her thought process and overall just process of understanding what is happening to her and those around her. Gender equality is a very important subject, so I can’t wait to see what you have to offer! I know you’re going to do an incredible job. Great job, Megan!
ReplyDeleteHello Megan, it looks like you chose a topic your really going to enjoy writing about. Both stories I think will go well with the topic you have chosen because they both include many of the aspects the question entails along. The second story is going to work well because like you said it is about Baldwins life and his perspective about the times he recalls as the story progresses. I don't remember the first story you mentioned to well but if I'm right it's about women getting the same rights and oppurtunities men do? The first story will also work well if I remember it correctly, there a re a lot of quotes that could be used to connect with the aspect of gender from your chosen. Along with both being written and in the point of view of the author's rather than characters will make your project very strong when it comes to the finished project. Good luck on the project Megan.
ReplyDeleteHi Megan! I really enjoyed reading what you'll do for your final project. I think you have great ideas. I also think it's a great idea to look at how culture and history relate to the stories we've read, and relate it to things like power. I, too, am tying in history into my project too. I think it's interesting to learn what has happened in our past and relate it to our world today. It's also great to read how we can relate that to the stories and poems we've read in class; it's great that there's some information about the author and history related to them in the beginning of their work. I think it helps us understand the author and where they are coming from. I am excited to see where you go with your project and to see how it all comes together. Good luck and I can't wait to read your work!
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ReplyDeleteI am working on the same prompt but with different texts. I think that your project will be very interesting.
I feel that there really is a lot to work with in this context and with the works you chose. I think that Virginia Woolf's "A room of ones own", is a great work to explore as the status of the woman in the story was elevated through inherited wealth, yet this did not allow for her the same privileges as a man with the same status. The differentiation of class, wealth, and the expectations of the sexes in those categories really determines the life of the person. Her life was drastically different before the money, and in that I think there is also the question of, does money make things easier or better? Or did her wealth draw attention to the sexism that was at play in the world?
Hey Megan! I think you chose really strong works for the prompt you chose to answer. Both "A Room of One's Own" and "Notes of a Native Son" deal heavily in the context of their time period, so you'll have no shortage of information to use in your project. The great thing about the stories you chose is that both have authors who actually lived through the issues they discussed, so their first hand experience makes it into their writing in great detail. In "A Room of One's Own", Virginia Woolf discusses her belief that women need financial and societal independence in order to flourish as writers and as people in general, and we know that Woolf's own career as a writer only flourished out of luck and circumstance, being that her parents died and left her enough resources that she could become independent herself. All that's left is for you to find the quotes and literary elements of her work that reflects this, and you're golden! Same goes for "Notes of a Native Song", his experience as an African-American man in a racist America comes out in his writing, when he discusses his complex feelings on being native to a country that treats him and his people poorly. You seem to have this down, good luck on the final project!
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