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| Pieter Bruegel the Elder - "Hunters in the Snow (Winter)"; 1565 |
* Open
- You may review until the bell rings
* Please read this definition and then copy the first sentence of it into your terms.
- ANTIHERO: A protagonist who is a non-hero or the antithesis of a traditional hero. While the traditional hero may be dashing, strong, brave, resourceful, or handsome, the antihero may be incompetent, unlucky, clumsy, dumb, ugly, or clownish. Examples here might include the senile protagonist of Cervantes' Don Quixote or the girlish knight Sir Thopas from Chaucer's "Sir Thopas." In the case of the Byronic and Miltonic antihero, the antihero is a romanticized but wicked character who defies authority, and becomes paradoxically ennobled by his peculiar rejection of virtue. In this sense, Milton presents Satan in Paradise Lost as an antihero in a sympathetic manner--at least in the first half of the poem. The same is true of Heathcliffe in Emily Bronté's Wuthering Heights. Compare with the picaro.
* Read at least one short story
- Graham Greene
- Tobias Wolff
- "Hunters in the Snow" (Perrine's pp. 187--201)
- * Note: this story has explicit language. I think it is a very good story, but I will not force you to read it.
- Contrast characters in one or both stories to the character of Beowulf (if you read both, at least one character from each story). How do their actions contrast? How does their speech contrast? How does their thought contrast?
- Which characters (two ore more) are antiheroes? What makes them antiheroes? Are they Miltonic or Byronic antiheroes? How do you know?
- Would you say that these tales are moral, immoral, or amoral? Explain. Do you think it wrong or unwise to read these kinds of stories at a Christian school?
HW: Work on Journal 9
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