HUmanties essay test

Humanities 101 – Test #2

Instructions:

• Log in to your turnitin.com account
• Download the Test Format Document from the Tests Folder.
• Answer all eleven (there are some bonus points here for you if you earn them) of the following questions in good, complete, organized paragraphs! I will be expecting clear, thought out answers, with good evidence from the text, your notes, the PowerPoint, and/or the biographies you’ve read.  DON’T YOU DARE COPY ANYTHING WORD-FOR-WORD from a source!! If you use a biography or any other source, make sure you cite it with the URL so that you avoid plagiarism!  Any plagiarism will result in a failing grade.  If you’re unsure what plagiarism is, please see CVCC’s Plagiarism Guide for more info.
• Each of the questions you choose to answer is worth 20 points, so make the answer a 20-point answer.
  • Every answer should contain at LEAST two good, solid 10-12 sentence paragraphs.  (That means that BOTH PARAGRAPHS SHOULD CONTAIN AT LEAST 10-12 SENTENCES).
  • Every answer should have quotes from the text as evidence of your claims.
  • Be sure you are analyzing and not summarizing.  Remember, I have read these stories – I know what happens.  I don’t need a summary.
  • Read the ENTIRE question and answer the ENTIRE question.  If you fail to answer the ENTIRE question you will not earn all of the points you could.
• It is YOUR responsibility to submit your complete exam to Turnitin.combefore midnight on November 22^nd.  You will only have the opportunity to submit it one time, so don’t submit part and then try to come back and submit the rest.  This is a one-shot deal.
• If for some reason (like alien abduction or something) you fail to get your test submitted, please review the late work policy in the syllabus BEFORE YOU CONTACT ME!

• Great Expectations introduced us to our first monster this semester. What elements of Victorian life do you think combined to make Miss Havisham into the monster she became?  Please be specific in your discussions of event from the story in combination with things like gender or social issues of the time.
• Many would argue that Pip becomes a monster in Great Expectations. Do you think he redeems himself and shed his monstrosity in the end of the novel? Please respond to the question with specific reasons/events from the story that support your statement about whether he is redeemed or not.
• Of all the things we read this semester, nothing exemplifies the idea of the duality (two-sideness) of the Victorian era better than Robert L. Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.Write two paragraphsthat draw a parallel between each side of Jekyll and a specific element of Victorian culture. You may want to break it into two paragraphs to help with the organization of your ideas. Please use specifics whenever possible.
• The blog post discussed several modern-day examples of the Jekyll/Hyde dichotomy. Choose a modern daycharacter who is an example of a Jekyll/Hyde that you think remains faithful to Stevenson’s novel and corresponds directly to a theme found in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Write at least two paragraphs in which you discuss your modern-day Jekyll/Hyde character and make sure you include the theme you think he/she represents and that you point out how he/she remains faithful to the originals in the novel. (I do not want two or three paragraphs devoted to Batman… this is a question about Jekyll and Hyde).
• When you read H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man, you met a character with whom you can sympathize. We have all been “invisible” at one time or another – at home, at school, at work, or even at a party.  What sets Griffin apart from us is that none of us have ever turned into “supervillains.” Write two paragraphs about what message Wells might be sending us about dealing with our frustration about being “invisible” and how this message was particularly relevant to the Victorians.
• G. Wells also draws a link between isolation and invisibility, and the character he creates, Griffin/ the Invisible Man, has suffered both. Write two paragraphsthat link the idea of Griffin’s isolation/invisibility with his insanity.  Did Griffin go insane because of his invisibility?   Were his murderous actions a product of his isolation or his invisibility or both? (Maybe reference the surprise that we learned about the Invisible Man’s appearance.)
• How might this excerpt from Dorian Gray be related to “The Goblin Market”:

“Was it really true that one could never change? He felt a wild longing for the unstained purity of his boyhood—his rose-white boyhood, as Lord Henry had once called it. He knew that he had tarnished himself, filled his mind with corruption, and given horror to his fancy; that he had been an evil influence to others, and had experienced a terrible joy in being so; and that of the lives that had crossed his own it had been the fairest and the most full of promise that he had brought to shame. But was it all irretrievable? Was there no hope for him?” – The Picture of Dorian Gray Chapter XX

Write two paragraphs that discuss what this quote (or part of this quote) has in common with Rossetti’s “The Goblin Market” and/or how is it different from Rossetti’s poem?  Please use specific lines from the quote to discuss your comparison/contrast. (Laura is the one who eats the fruit – Lizzie is the one who doesn’t).

• The life of Oscar Wilde has many parallels to his famous novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. What might Wilde have been saying about his life or the life of his young lover through the plot of the novel and the fate of its main character? Use specifics from his life and link those to specific lines from the novel wherever possible (Try Chapter XX).  Don’t forget to cite the source you use for his biography.
• In Stoker’s Dracula, the novel explores several different aspects of gender roles, the Victorian expectations of men and women. Choose one of the gender elements and write a good paragraph that identifies what gender role you are discussing and compare that with what the Victorian expectations of that role were.  How did Stoker’s characters measure up with concepts like the “angel of the house” or the expectations of the Victorian gentleman?  You might even want to explore what message Stoker might have been trying to deliver to young unmarried women.  Be sure to use the specific characters and their roles to support your answers and as always, use specifics from the novel whenever possible to support your assertions.
• Stoker explores all manner of “the forbidden” in Dracula, including sexual practices that were considered out of bounds, so to speak. What do Dracula and his brides come to represent and why (according to the Victorian social ideas of the time) must they be destroyed?
• Over the course of the semester, we have discussed how similar we are to the Victorians. Choose ONE cultural element of the Victorian that is most like we are. Write at LEAST two paragraphs which use specific examples to support your assertion that we are the same as the Victorians in that one aspect.   The articles we read throughout the semester will be very helpful for this.