Wednesday

 Today we will review A Brave New World and then I will give you some time to either study for tomorrow's final or to look for poems for Poetry Out Loud.

FINAL STUDY GUIDE

English 10 STUDY GUIDE

Short Stories:  Know the themes, plot outline, symbols, characters, and ironies for the following stories:

Harrison Bergeron

The Lottery

The Possibility of Evil

There Will Come Soft Rains

The Pedestrian

Everyday Use

NOVEL: A BRAVE NEW WORLD

Know and be able to give specific examples of the themes

Be able to explain the meaning of major symbols

Outline the plot

Give a summary of the story

List the importance of major characters

List and explain ironies and allusions found in the novel

Oedipus Rex

Be able to answer the following:

1) How does Oedipus Rex fit the traditional role of a Tragic Hero?

2) What does the chorus do in a Greek play?  What is their function?

3) How does this play fit the theme: Person vs. Fate.

4) List two ironies in this play and discuss why they are ironic.

6) What is the climax of the play?

7) What is the resolution?

8)   Discuss the purpose of the following parts of a Greek tragedy:

Prologue:

Exodus:

9) Why does Iocaste tell Oedipus about her baby?  What detail of her story catches Oedipus’s attention?  What does he begin to suspect?

10) Who is the Messenger?  What message does he bring and what does he reveal about Oedipus’s past?

11) What does the shepherd finally reveal?  Why is he so reluctant to say it?

12) Who does Oedipus say is responsible for his actions?

13) What moral does the Chorus see in all this?

14) Why do Oedipus and Teiresias quarrel? 

Be able to talk about the main ideas of the following essays:

“Tolerance”

“Dyaspora" "The Plot Against the People"

STUDY GUIDE:

1)   Be able to outline the Plot

2)   Know the importance of the following people:

Bernard Marx

John

Linda

Lenina

D.H.C. (Tomakin)

Mustapha Mond

Helmholtz Watson

Henry Foster

Fanny Crowne

Pope’

3)   Discuss BRAVE NEW WORLD as a 3-part structure

4) Give examples of the following themes:

The Meaning of Freedom

Individual vs. Society

The Meaning of Power

5)   Discuss five ways people are controlled in this society

6)   Discuss the title and how its meaning changes throughout the course of the novel

7)   Does this novel contain any elements of hope?  Why or why not?

8)   Why is Shakespeare used so often?  Make sure you are able to analyze quotes to Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and The Tempest.

9)   For a world that lacks history and literature there are many, many allusions to both history and literature (perhaps Huxley means something by this): list at least three literary and three historical and discuss their meanings.

10)                   Who is FORD?  Why is he an important Symbol of this society?

11)                   Discuss the ways that  everyone is similar.

12)                   List two symbols other than FORD.

13)                   List three ironies.

14)                  Discuss death in this novel and the deaths of the following:

John

Linda

The average person in this society.

15)                  Discuss the “Bokanovsky Process”.

16)                  Is Mustapha Mond really powerful or is he controlled by society as much as anyone else?

17) Why is John an allusion to John the Baptist?  

18) Why are the allusions to so many dictators in the book?  

19) Why are some of the early chapters broken up?  Why are the later chapters not?

20) Discuss religion and soma?